AI News
- ByteDance plans a Muse-like AI assistant in coming weeks to extend its AI video lead and close the gap with US labs
- Airbnb is building its own AI travel agent that will eventually book on and off Airbnb's platform
- Kai-Fu Lee questions whether trillion-dollar AI valuations can be justified
- A 13-year-old allegedly used Gemini on her school Chromebook to plan suicide, and monitoring did not flag it for weeks
- AI has driven around a quarter of UK growth this year, putting the country at risk of a global valuation downturn
- Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says the AI startup faces a daily struggle to secure the power it needs to run, after its $25 billion valuation
- Anthropic adds Claude Sheets, a whiteboard app and a call assistant that joins weekly meetings to take notes and start work
- Adobe announces vibe coding tools that extend beyond apps at MAX 2026
- OpenAI's quarterly revenue crossed $10 billion for the first time, up 50%, but its losses grew as well
- Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon to the public with an agent swarm feature after a limited cybersecurity preview
- Q&A with Otter.ai CEO Sam Liang on multilingual offerings, international expansion and capital allocation for growth
- Anthropic unveils Claude-powered Office tools, including an AI-infused Excel competitor, ahead of its IPO
- CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator sees 'no reason' the Nvidia partnership will change despite controversy
- OpenAI adds verified Business Agents to ChatGPT for brand help such as comparison shopping
- Apple is reportedly preparing a new Mac app to make running local AI models easy
- Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare, an AI agent that works across hospital records, billing and insurance systems
- Stifel CEO discusses the firm's Anthropic partnership, AI tools for advisers and Fed policy
- New York's AI safety law takes effect, requiring OpenAI and Anthropic to register and report critical incidents
- Independent Games Festival jurors will not vote for games using generative AI, as Big Walk's developer admits sparing AI use
- Reddit turns user conversations into AI-powered reviews covering 10,000 products
- PSI builds a business around AI-driven scientific discovery using an unreleased Anthropic model
- DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5, a model up to twice as successful at some tasks, and the ASIMOV-jailbreak open safety benchmark
- Anthropic hires UK lobbying firm Charlesbye, run by a former aide to Boris Johnson, before its IPO
- Sundrop uses Apple's on-device AI to turn baby photos into recaps and time-lapses without uploading them
- eBay appears to block third-party AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing its platform
- Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized TPU chips
- Scott Wiener, Nancy Pelosi's successor, is ready to regulate AI as data centers face power woes
- AI agents have yet to disrupt Uber, DoorDash or online travel as consumers lag on trust and usefulness
- Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 models, claiming gains in coding, reasoning and vision
- Google DeepMind's new AI tool formally verifies that the Signal encryption protocol works as intended