Waze rolls out new customization features and more Gemini updates
Whether you're riding a motorcycle or want fewer voice prompts, the latest features — including Gemini updates — give you more flexibility.
Whether you're riding a motorcycle or want fewer voice prompts, the latest features — including Gemini updates — give you more flexibility.
With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.
Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.
We analyzed 300,000 real conversations to measure the values Claude expresses across models and languages, compressed into four interpretable axes.
Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.
"homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup's hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components they were working on and unreleased product samples.
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
Today, I’m talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia. Nvidia is obviously in the news constantly because of the AI boom — it’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, because the AI industry can’t get enough of the company’s GPUs. But Nvidia is also a key supplier […]
Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.
Waze is getting an AI makeover. Google is integrating its flagship AI assistant, Gemini, into the driving app with the goal of letting users personalize their trips a little more.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling out OpenAI and Anthropic for what he calls a "reverse information paradox." They train on public data under fair use but ban distillation of their own models, all while learning from customer interactions.
Meta Platforms Inc. today announced plans to significantly expand the scope of its Hyperion data center project.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap to Opus 4.8 on agentic coding, at cheaper Sonnet token pricing. The post Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Taiwan's economy has continued to outperform expectations as research institutions repeatedly lifted growth forecasts over the past two years.
Spatial artificial intelligence startup Augmodo Inc. said today it has raised $21 million in an impromptu funding round that lifts its valuation to $350 million.
OpenAI and Sam Altman have made big deals with Microsoft, and Apple. Both have ended poorly. Why?
OpenAI staffers defended CEO Sam Altman's ability to field critical feedback. "It is one of OpenAI's greatest strengths," one wrote.
Google has given Waze a batch of new features, most of them powered by Gemini. The headline additions are a motorcycle mode, personalised routing, conversational map editing, and Gemini-powered destination search, The Verge reports.
Useful quantum computers will require fault tolerant logical operations. Researchers are actively exploring many different quantum error correction (QEC) codes...
We're expanding our Richland Parish, Louisiana data center to 5GW of compute capacity in a town that’s already seeing life-changing returns for teachers, local businesses, and students. The post Teachers and Local Businesses Win as Meta Expands Louisiana Data Center appeared first on Meta Newsroom.
While Apple did its best to insulate Jony Ive in its lawsuit against OpenAI, the company may not be able to keep its former design chief out of the fight. Here’s why.
Meta’s $50 Billion Data Center Raises AI Overbuild Questions
OpenAI's partnerships with Microsoft and Apple have unraveled, raising questions about its strategic direction and leadership.
Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter robot navigation model that runs on a single RGB camera and plain-language commands. The move puts Europe's top AI lab into physical AI and pressures the sensor-heavy vendors that dominate warehouse and factory automation.
The update also expands Gemini-powered voice search and reporting -- though a new motorcycle mode skips the US for now.
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In Frederick and Calvert counties, where officials are weighing data centers, voters showed some incumbents the door.
Meta has axed a controversial setting from its AI image generation tool on Instagram. This decision raises questions about AI's boundaries in creative spaces.
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna. We’ve seen the early hype as reported on Thursday, but as always that is biased.
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman is praised by employees for his openness to feedback. But is this merely a corporate strategy or genuine receptiveness?
ASRock Rack has developed an unlikely edge server based on NVIDIA's industrial SoC, Thor. The Blackwell-era chip is being used to power the 2UXGI-THOR, a server aimed at the industrial and medical markets The post ASRock Rack Built an Edge Server Based on NVIDIA’s Thor Industrial SoC appeared first on ServeTheHome.
AI-driven hyperscale data centers are creating a new generation of risks and challenges that extend well beyond power shortages and chip supply, according to a new report from Zurich North America.
OpenAI has released a prompting guide for everyday users, not developers. Instead of rigid formulas, it suggests four optional building blocks: goal, context, format, and constraints.
Meta said its Hyperion data center project will now grow to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, bringing its cost to more than $50 billion.
Tom Blomfield built two of Britain’s best-known fintech companies. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to help crack the AI industry’s hardest problem: compute.
The race to automate the office just gained a third runner. Cursor is building Sand, a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowork.
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are calling for immediate action in a coordinated statement.
Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI may not reach a courtroom for years. It is already doing damage.
Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men who founded OpenAI spent the weekend calling each other frauds in public. It played out on X, in real time, in front of millions. By the end […] This story continues at The Next Web
Executives and researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic all signed the 88-word letter released on Monday.
Tom Blomfield is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team, joining a host of prominent tech names at the firm.
Google Research's SensorFM is a foundation model trained on more than a trillion minutes of wearable data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users.
Antons Davis left Nvidia after a decade to start his own business. He had achieved his financial goals and wanted to do something more fulfilling.
Agentic LLMs keep failing the same way because they lack specific, reusable capabilities.
The iOS app tracks 15,000-plus objects, adds Gemini-powered space answers, and shows the tradeoffs in AI-assisted hobbyist apps.
Apple accuses OpenAI's senior team of orchestrating misconduct, implicating a former Apple employee. The tech world watches closely.
Apple claims misconduct orchestrated by OpenAI's senior team, raising questions about industry ethics and accountability.
Meta pulls an AI feature from Instagram due to privacy concerns after criticism from users and Hollywood. The incident raises questions about data usage in AI tools.
Waze embraces Gemini AI, revamping its platform with advanced features. This marks a important moment for navigation apps.
Anthropic is rolling out Claude Cowork to the web and mobile, starting with a beta phase. The expansion aims to enhance flexibility for users.
Google is weaving its Gemini AI into Waze, amplifying its push to rival Apple Maps. Will AI-infused navigation set a new standard?
OpenAI faces legal challenges but remains undeterred, planning its first hardware launch by 2027. Is this ambition or overreach?
Nvidia's automotive ambitions could redefine the future of driving, but they're entangled in a web of auto industry inertia, chip shortages, and relentless innovation.
Samsung is expected to unveil its first Android XR glasses, featuring Gemini integration and a design partnership with Gentle Monster.
OpenAI's ambitions to build a hardware rival to the iPhone are already running into trouble because of Apple's trade secret lawsuit, according to Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman, who argues the damage is showing up well before any court ruling.
Torrance, California, USA, July 13th, 2026, CyberNewswire Criminal IP, the cyber threat intelligence search engine and attack surface management platform, today announced a new partnership and integration with Torq, the established agentic security operations leader.
In a Saturday post on X, Musk invoked his longtime nickname for Altman, writing: “Scam Altman strikes again…”
Apple filed a blockbuster lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the company of trade secret theft. There are a lot of interesting tidbits throughout the initial filing, but one stat in particular stood out to me: the number of former Apple employees now working at OpenAI.
Optalitix, a London-based InsurTech specialising in pricing and underwriting software, has upgraded its Optalitix Quote platform with agentic AI capabilities designed to help insurers, reinsurers and MGAs interact with underwriting systems through natural language.
Internet-facing AI systems are becoming a new target for opportunistic attackers.
Agentic AI's success hinges on harmonizing human intelligence with machine capabilities. It's about more than just tech, it's an infrastructure shift.
A structured, phase-based model for scaling agentic AI in the enterprise, built on verified McKinsey, Gartner, Forrester and Salesforce data for 2026.
Agrikola AI, a Barcelona-based agri-tech startup, has closed its pre-seed funding round with participation from Zubi Capital, Norrsken VC, Masia VC and Ona Capital.
Satya Nadella calls out AI giants like OpenAI for exploiting public data while restricting the use of their own models. He argues for self-controlled learning infrastructures.
Arca, a New York-based wealth management fintech, has emerged from stealth with $64 million in combined seed and Series A funding to develop an AI-powered financial advisory platform.
Despite facing its second trade secret theft lawsuit in a little more than a year over its hardware ambitions, OpenAI still plans to unveil its first product this year and release it in 2027, Bloomberg reports. Here are the details.
Mumbai, India — LTM Limited, formerly LTIMindtree, has entered into a partnership with Anthropic to expand the enterprise adoption of Claude across software engineering, application modernisation and business operations.
Venice AI, a developer of a privacy-focused generative AI and decentralized model inference platform, has raised $65 million in a Series A round at a $1 billion valuation.
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging trade secret theft and breach of contract tied to former Apple employees, including Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, who allegedly used confidential Apple project information during OpenAI’s hiring process.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — At a moment when consumer delinquencies are on the rise, KredosAi, an AI-powered collections platform that enhances revenue recovery by leveraging behavioral intelligence, was built to be the answer to the problem.
Twelve veteran nurses from Montefiore Hospital in NYC face layoffs as AI software takes over utilization review roles. The controversy raises questions about AI's role in healthcare.
Virginia's new data center power tax raises debates about AI infrastructure's impact on community electricity costs. Is this the way forward?
Virginia’s first-in-nation data center power tax reflects growing fears that AI infrastructure could raise electricity costs for households and communities.
SiMa.ai and Mistral Solutions have partnered to launch a validated, production-ready AI drone reference design — delivering on-device inference,
Meta committed an additional $40 billion to its Hyperion campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, bringing total investment to $50 billion for a 5GW compute facility. Louisiana's aggregate AI infrastructure commitments now top $250 billion, signaling the physical buildout is still racing ahead of efficiency gains.
Apple filed suit against OpenAI on July 13, claiming the company used partnership resources to develop a competing AI-first device. The case will define whether model builders can vertically integrate against platform gatekeepers.
The legal tussle between Apple and OpenAI highlights key business lessons. Protect employee insights and shield intellectual property from contamination.