Consumers Warm Up to AI Shopping Tools Across Generations
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving beyond search and recommendations into actively helping consumers shop, with new agentic AI tools designed…
Year: 2025
Perplexity Launches Subscription Tier for ‘Premium Content’
Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity has announced a new subscription program called Comet Plus that it said gives users access to premium content…
Coinbase CEO’s Mandate: Learn AI or Get Fired
When Coinbase embraced artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, its CEO gave workers a week to get on board. During a podcast interview last week, Brian Armstrong said the…
AuraChat.ai Closes Strategic Investment
AuraChat.ai, a Los Angeles, CA-based AI-driven sales and marketing automation platform, has secured a strategic investment. Investors The investment was…
Malaysia unveils first AI device chip to join global race
Malaysia unveiled its own AI processor Monday, joining a global race to build the most sought-after electronic components for artificial…
Databricks to Purchase Tecton to Boost AI Agent Offerings
Data analytics firm Databricks is acquiring machine learning startup Tecton. The goal is to help Databricks expand its artificial intelligence (AI) agent offerings,…
Meta to Debut Smart Glasses at September’s ‘Connect’ Event
Meta reportedly plans to introduce its new smart glasses at next month’s “Connect” conference. Those glasses, Meta’s first to feature a…
Barti Raises $12M Series A to Accelerate AI-Powered EHR for Eye Care
Barti Software, a leading AI-powered company that provides innovative electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software built for eye…
Lyno AI Launches Early Presale at $0.050, Attracting Growing Investor Interest
Lyno AI has entered its early bird phase of the presale at a token price of $0.050. The project is gaining…
Furniture.com Shifts From Aggregator to Marketplace With AI Agents
Buying furniture online these days is about as easy as hauling a sofa up a flight of stairs. Consumers browse…
Amazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acquihire
When Amazon hired the founders of AI startup Adept last year, it was one of the first examples of what became known…
India becomes ground zero in the global AI race
New Delhi / Bengaluru — India has rapidly evolved from a consumer-heavy market to the global frontline for artificial intelligence…
Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models
Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced…
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5
Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — …
Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised
In a moonshot move, AI search engine Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in…
Huawei Cloud AI Ecosystem Summit APAC 2025: AI’s expanding role
The Huawei Cloud AI Ecosystem Summit APAC 2025 brought together government leaders, industry experts, and technology partners to discuss how artificial intelligence…
OpenAI Says Elon Musk Wanted Mark Zuckerberg to Join Acquisition Attempt
OpenAI reportedly said in a Thursday (Aug. 21) court filing that Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk sought financing arrangements or investments from Meta founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his $97.4…
NASA and Google Test AI ‘Space Doctor’
Star Trek’s fictional Dr. “Bones” McCoy may have had a tricorder, but NASA astronauts could soon have something almost as futuristic…
Google Offers Gemini to Government Workers for 47 Cents
Google on Thursday (Aug. 21) said it would be offering a complete artificial intelligence (AI) platform to federal agencies and employees for 47 cents in the first year.…
Anthropic Seeks to Raise $10 Billion Amid Strong Investor Interest
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic is reportedly in advanced talks to raise as much as $10 billion in a new funding round.…