Introducing Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0
Introducing our most capable speech-to-speech voice model.
Model releases reset developer expectations, competitive pressure, and the capabilities builders can immediately put into products.
Introducing our most capable speech-to-speech voice model.
Model releases reset developer expectations, competitive pressure, and the capabilities builders can immediately put into products.
A look at how the Gemini app for macOS now lets you speak naturally to get clean transcriptions, edits, and summaries just using your voice.
How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.
London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.
OpenAI is trying to reassure employees that the business is healthy as competition emerges from Anthropic as well as a host of open-source players.
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities.
Separating the chaff from the wheat in Anthropic results is hard. We take a stab anyway.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is meeting with a range of senior Trump administration officials, lawmakers and economists.
Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.
xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, the company...
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
Chipmaker is basically writing cheques to enable its customers to buy more of its products than they could otherwise afford
In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "family of devices" for interacting with its AI models.
Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.
Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.
The startup analyzes calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
ChatGPT developer says autonomous tool capable of executing sequences of commands without human assistance located and used login credentials to access four unnamed "publicly available services," in addition to US startup Hugging Face.
OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.
Ruflo CVE-2026-59726 exposes an unauthenticated MCP bridge that could enable RCE, LLM key theft, conversation access, and AI memory poisoning.
After the preview at I/O 2026 in May, Gemini for macOS is now rolling out advanced voice control capabilities.
Maingear's Zero desktop comes with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU and top-shelf processors from Intel and AMD. The pricing starts at a steep $2,699 in the US.
Can language models spark a scientific revolution? In a position paper titled "LLMs can't jump," Google Deepmind's Tom Zahavy argues they can't.
Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn Inc. today revealed that it has raised $40 million in new funding to accelerate development of what it calls an agentic data control plane.
A new leak suggests Lenovo is preparing the world's first NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered convertible laptop, the Yoga 9n 2-in-1, featuring a 360-degree design and AI-focused hardware.
What a week. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. As usual I covered that in three parts: The system card, model welfare and capabilities.
It’s officially the year of the super app. OpenAI recently launched its own super app, which it just admitted is “kind of a mess.” And now Microsoft’s CEO has confirmed has a super app for Copilot launching soon.
tl;dr: in situations without duplicates: SIA and standard Bayesian updating are the same thing.
Agentic security startup Cantina formally launched today and said it has raised $8 million in funding to automate the security work that happens after a vulnerability is found.
Hey there, it’s Thursday and that means we’re one day closer to the weekend. What are you up to?
The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent.
Databricks is adding an agentic code conversion capability to its Lakebridge toolkit, using Genie Code to provide its new customers another way to move from rival data warehouses to its lakehouse built atop Databricks SQL.
Georgia's largest power supply company is reclaiming 30 homes that lay in the path of its power line expansion project through sale or eminent domain. The company says the project is not for a data center, but the substation the line is connecting to sits less than five miles from a massive data center.
Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature.
Save $100 on a Gigabyte Aero 16X gaming laptop with a Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU, 32GB of RAM, and an RTX 5060 GPU in today's limited-time sale
This 27-inch LG OLED gaming monitor with a 280Hz refresh rate has dropped is on sale right now for $399.99 in a deal that'll save you $200.
The president says voice will replace typing and the hardware is coming ‘soon,’ while brushing off Apple’s lawsuit: “we have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets.” OpenAI is not building one gadget but several, its president Greg Brockman has confirmed, describing “a family of devices” in an interview that...
A growing backlash against building new data centers in the US may have huge cost implications for CIOs planning to expand their organizations’ AI initiatives.
Identity questions seem hard to get right. Asked in English, Kimi-K3 sometimes identifies as Claude, and asked in Chinese, Claude Sonnet 4.6 sometimes claims it is DeepSeek.
OpenAI's chatbot is about to reach a new milestone of 1 billion weekly users, according to internal company data. Although this target was intended to be hit by the end of 2025, it nevertheless remains among the fastest-growing online applications to hit that many users in the short time since the startup was founded.
One township in Pennsylvania gave a specific list of demands for a data center developer to follow if they want to build their project in the area. Instead, they retracted their initial application and sent in a second one challenging the regulations.
OpenAI counters Anthropic's ARC-AGI-3 record: GPT-5.6 Sol scores 38.3 percent, but only with its own API features instead of the official test setup, where the model landed at 7.8 percent.
Samsung Electronics has signed five-year memory supply agreements with five leading global data center customers and is in the final stages of talks with five more, tying a growing share of its DRAM and NAND output to commitments that run years into the future.
Revolut is handing its customers free access to ChatGPT, the result of a new partnership with OpenAI.
The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday.
As AI demand surges, electricity availability becomes a critical factor shaping data center growth worldwide.
The incident should be a turning point in the seriousness with which Congress addresses AI governance, argues Public Citizen's J.B. Branch.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash are planned for Oracle AI Agent Studio; NetSuite serves more than 44,000 customers in 220 countries.
The Commission hopes to unlock at least €30bn in collective public and private funding. Read more: EU launches call to build seven AI Gigafactories
Raquel Vazquez, Rafiya Javed and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran from Google explore using human rights as an alignment target for agentic systems.
Insider Brief Unit AI has raised $12 million to expand deployments of its modular warehouse automation platform across North America.
Google DeepMind has introduced Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, saying the model improves musicality, lyrics and vocal quality while supporting variable song lengths.
Freehand, a San Francisco-based AI company building autonomous agents for enterprise spending and financial operations, has raised $75m as businesses look to automate procurement, supplier management and payment workflows.
Why data center capacity depends on operational intelligence, not just power, land and build speed.
As AI strains data center infrastructure, silicon photonics looks to provide faster, more energy-efficient computing.
Singapore and Bengaluru, Data and artificial intelligence company ADA has completed its acquisition of Bengaluru-based Algonomy, a provider of agentic decision-making technology for retail businesses.
Felix Capital led the seed round for Intropy, founded by former Tractable researchers Franziska Kirschner and Yih Kai Teh, as the AI spare-parts software maker prepares a New York office.
Insider Brief Maus Robotics has received CHF 150,000, or about $183,000, from Venture Kick to develop autonomous robots that prepare fresh crêpes from raw ingredients in 90 seconds.
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI has reportedly raised $3.5 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $35 billion, following growing interest in its Kimi K3 open-weight AI model.
Curant.ai, an AI-powered insurance claims platform, has raised $3.1m in seed funding as insurers look to move beyond small-scale AI pilots and adopt technology capable of supporting enterprise-wide operations.
Revolut has partnered with OpenAI to offer ChatGPT Go access as part of its banking subscription plans, giving retail customers up to 12 months of free access depending on their subscription tier.
A complaint filed June 15 in San Francisco Superior Court by Christian Faith Madison's estate administrator and on behalf of her minor son alleges GPT-4o fostered dependency, reinforced religious delusions and contributed to her June 9, 2025 death.
Mate Security, an AI-native security operations platform provider, has surpassed $50m in total funding after closing a $35m Series A round just eight months after leaving stealth.
Meta and BlackRock announced on July 28 a venture to own Meta's 1 GW El Paso data center campus, which is under construction and carries about $14 billion in development costs.
Migrating from a legacy data warehouse is a complex undertaking, requiring teams...
NVIDIA will host a conference call on Wednesday, August 26, at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2027, which ended July 26, 2026.
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.
Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities.
Marktechpost AI has released Token Saver, an open-source MCP extension for Claude Desktop that uses local Hybrid RAG to slash PDF token consumption by up to 99% while ensuring absolute document privacy.
OpenAI counters Anthropic's ARC-AGI-3 record: GPT-5.6 Sol scores 38.3 percent, but only through its own API with retained reasoning and context compaction.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman confirms the company is building a family of devices for ChatGPT, staying quiet on release dates, specs, and how the Apple lawsuit factors in.
Lam Research delivered record quarterly results and raised its outlook for global wafer fab equipment (WFE) spending, citing accelerating AI-driven demand across memory, advanced logic and packaging.
Nvidia's power in AI has never rested on GPU performance alone — it has also depended on the CUDA software ecosystem. That moat is now facing a new variable as AMD deepens its challenge through software, systems, and partnerships with Anthropic.
Microsoft reported stronger-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results, driven by accelerating Azure cloud growth and rising adoption of its AI products, reinforcing investor confidence that the company's heavy investments in AI are generating commercial returns.
Arm Holdings is preparing its first self-designed data center CPU, the Arm AGI CPU, for shipments by the end of calendar 2026, and expects silicon sales to become a separately reported revenue category in fiscal 2028.
Qualcomm has completed its acquisition of Modular, strengthening its push into AI software that can run across devices, data centers, and edge systems worldwide.