Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.
Startups
An old Oscar Mayer factory in Wisconsin will become America's latest fusion power research and development hub.
The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding.
Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said on stage.
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.
Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI companies. This latest marketing stunt — which leans into criticism of AI as a way to make Anthropic seem aware of the responsibility it carries — would appear to be more of the same.
Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
The company said the "rumors are completely false" after its stock sank more than 50% on a report that it was weighing the option.
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is said to be preparing for a 2027 IPO debut as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at a $71 billion valuation.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.