Google Adds AI-Powered Local Business Calling to Search
Google is expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities in Search by rolling out a new, free feature that lets it call local businesses on the user’s…
Exxon, Chevron & Microsoft Team Up in AI-Energy Power Race
As demand for power from AI data centers surges, energy giants ExxonMobil and Chevron are forging ahead with groundbreaking “behind-the-meter”…
100-year-old woman reacts to AI-generated video of late husband
An elderly woman in Argentina is remembering her late husband in a new way, after her grandson shared a video…
India eyes global quantum computer push — and QpiAI is its chosen vehicle
QpiAI, an Indian startup that claims to integrate AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, has raised $32 million…
Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data-labeling business
Data-labeling startup Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, roughly 14% of its staff, and cutting ties with 500 of its…
CX leaders expect technology budget growth as AI readiness lags
Dive Brief: Dive Insight: CX leaders aiming to improve their data skills can benefit by taking a strategic approach that…
Google rolls out AI-powered business-calling feature, brings Gemini 2.5 Pro to AI Mode
Google is rolling out an agentic AI-powered business-calling feature to all users in the United States, the company announced on…
Big US investments announced at Trump’s tech and AI summit
American companies rolled out a series of big-ticket AI and energy investment pledges on Tuesday, part of a push by…
Open Flash Platform Storage Initiative Aims to Cut AI Infrastructure Costs by 50%
Today, the Open Flash Platform (OFP) initiative was launched with inaugural members Hammerspace, the Linux community, Los Alamos National Laboratory,…
Trump joins tech and energy executives amid AI push
President Donald Trumpjoined executives from some of the largest U.S. tech and energy companies for a summit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday…
BNY Says 96% of Employees Use In-House AI Platform
BNY has seen nearly all its employees adopt the bank’s artificial intelligence platform, Eliza, and the bank expects the technology to help…
More than half the states have issued AI guidance for schools
Agencies in at least 28 states and the District of Columbia have issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence…
How Amazon is helping power America’s AI future
Key takeaways Today, Amazon joined President Donald J. Trump and leaders across government and industry to discuss how we’re helping…
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, officially closed a $2 billion…
Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines
As publishers fret about decreased traffic from Google, the search giant has begun rolling out AI summaries in Discover, the main…
Military AI contracts awarded to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI
The Pentagon has opened the military AI floodgates and handed out contracts worth up to $800 million to four of…
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model
As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines. French AI startup Mistral has…
Meet Chef Aiman, the world’s first AI chef coming soon to Dubai
Dubai is set to open a restaurant called WOOHOO, where the kitchen is guided by an AI chef. It’s the…
Nvidia says it will restart AI chip sales to China
US technology giant Nvidia says it will soon resume sales of its high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. The…
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department
The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it’s granting contract awards of up to $200 million for artificial intelligence development at…