xAI raises $10B in debt and equity
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley confirmed on Monday. In a post…
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Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman
Grammarly announced Tuesday the acquisition of email client Superhuman in a push to build out its AI for its productivity suite. Neither…
Legal software company Clio drops $1B on law data giant vLex
On Monday, Clio, a 17-year-old Canadian law firm management software company, announced that it has agreed to acquire vLex, a…
Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that…
Flood of interest in Europe’s AI Gigafactories plan
The European Commission has seen a flood of interest from companies looking to help create AI Gigafactories across Europe. Brussels has been…
Meta Wins Case Over Its Use of Copyright-Protected Content to Train AI
One of the most significant (yet less flashy) considerations of the new wave of generative AI tools is the copyright…
‘Embracing AI’: Dutch tech company TomTom cuts 300 jobs
Dutch car navigation firm TomTom announced on Monday that it was cutting 300 jobs, approximately 10 per cent of its…
Google Cloud Adds More AI Firepower for Partners
Google Cloud has just introduced a couple of new AI-powered tools designed to help partners work faster, smarter, and with less…
Apple reportedly considers letting Anthropic and OpenAI power Siri
Apple is considering using AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic to power its updated version of Siri, rather than using…
Songscription launches an AI-powered ‘Shazam for sheet music’
A small company called Songscription launched last week with AI models that automate music transcription, turning an audio file of a song…
Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents
The company behind Cursor, the viral AI coding editor, launched a web app on Monday that allows users to manage…
Google Brings AI to Classrooms with Gemini Tools for Teachers and Chatbots for Students
Google on Monday announced a series of updates intended to bring its Gemini AI and other AI-powered tools deeper into the classroom.…
Power play: Can the grid cope with AI’s growing appetite?
As the AI Energy Council gathers, the question hanging in the air is: how do we power the future without…
Spanish police reveal one genius trick to outsmart AI phone scams
Why family codewords are your best defence against phone scams… It’s a story that’s becoming all too familiar: your phone buzzes,…
Calls for Australia-wide crackdown on real estate ads that use AI to hide faults and lure in renters
The New South Wales tenants union has called for nationwide reforms to crack down on misleading rental advertisements after the…
Nvidia taps 2 young Chinese AI experts to strengthen research
US chip giant Nvidia has hired two prominent artificial intelligence (AI) experts who hail from China, underscoring the rising global recognition of talent from…
Indian IT giants bet big on AI, rewire business DNAs for AI-driven future
Indian IT majors are aggressively repositioning themselves as AI-native firms, focusing on high-margin applications and integration over high-risk, capital-intensive foundational…
A bumbling game of robot soccer was a breakthrough for embodied AI
Humanoid robots waddled, stumbled and occasionally face-planted their way through a 3-on-3 soccer tournament in Beijing on Saturday that looked more like…
China’s Largest Public AI Release Since DeepSeek: Baidu’s Open-Source Ernie Set to Launch
On Monday, Chinese technology giant Baidu plans to make its Ernie generative AI large language model open source, a move by China’s tech sector…
South Goa highway project to use AI-driven construction technology
The Union ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH) has chosen highway projects across the country where AI-driven technology will…