Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than six months
Amazon said Blue Jay’s core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects.
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Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app
Google has given Gemini the ability to spit out AI-generated music, courtesy of DeepMind’s latest audio model. Beta access to Lyria 3 is rolling out in the Gemini app, enabling users to generate 30-second tracks based on text, images, and videos, without having to leave the chatbot window. The new music-making tool is available globally […]
Google adds music generation capabilities to the Gemini app
Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music
Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers
Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers’ confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills
OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.
World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk to bring world models into 3D workflows
The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.
India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses
The company is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline.
Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open-source AI
The new lineup includes 30-billion and 105-billion parameter models; a text-to-speech model; a speech-to-text model; and a vision model to parse documents.
Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue
AI search startup Perplexity is distancing itself from ads amid fears users won’t trust chatbots with an agenda to upsell. The move highlights an emerging crossroads for the AI industry as the sector’s biggest players hunt for stable sources of income to bankroll massive spending, with giants like OpenAI leaning into ads and others like […]