Apple CEO Tim Cook boasted about the potential of AI and the company’s approach to developing it in a rare all-hands today that was reported on by Bloomberg. Apple has been slow to roll out some of its AI features and has stumbled with a planned AI-powered upgrade to Siri, which it delayed earlier this […]
In the week’s least surprising news, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed that the company is exploring ways to bring ads to Alexa Plus, its new generative-AI-powered voice assistant. During a conference call following the company’s second-quarter earnings report, Jassy said that “there will be opportunities, as people are engaging in more multiturn conversations [with Alexa […]
News of a backlog at the U.S. federal department comes less than a week after national security experts urged the Trump administration to reverse its decision that allows Nvidia to export H20 chips to China.
Google has backed STAN, an Indian social gaming mobile platform that connects gamers with creators, communities, and publishers.
On Friday, Anthropic debuted research unpacking how an AI system’s “personality” – as in, tone, responses, and overarching motivation – changes and why. Researchers also tracked what makes a model “evil.” The Verge spoke with Jack Lindsey, an Anthropic researcher working on interpretability, who has also been tapped to lead the company’s fledgling “AI psychiatry” […]
VCs and founders took much of the $2.4B, but money was left for a payout to all employees, sources say.
Fundamental Research Labs is releasing multiple AI products related to gaming and productivity.
Autonomous weapons, decentralized strategy, and startup speed — this isn’t the future of defense, it’s the now. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto the AI Stage to talk about how next-gen defense is being built from the ground up with AI at its core. Inside the AI […]
The round could make the AI data storage company one of the most valuable in the world.
