One year after passing the landmark RAISE Act, a pair of New York lawmakers want the state to double down. State Sen. Andrew Gounardes of Brooklyn and Assemblymember Jordan Wright of Harlem introduced a bill on Thursday (Oct. 29) to build on the earlier AI...
Easol raised $30 million in a Series A extension funding round to continue scaling its experience commerce platform designed for festivals, wellness retreats, sports, adventure and location-based entertainment venues, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 28) press release. Easol’s extension funding round includes $20...
Google parent company Alphabet saw its stock price drop 13%, and its market value lose $500 billion Thursday (Oct. 29), marking the stock’s worst day ever, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The drop followed Alphabet’s release of its quarterly results on Wednesday (Oct. 28), which stoked investors’ fears about...
Google may have finally caught up with its archrivals. Its new Gemini 4 Carbon model ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an independent scorecard that had OpenAI and Anthropic ahead for most of the year. OpenAI answered on price, halving the cost of...
Mistral released an updated version of its Large 4 artificial intelligence model, saying in a Thursday (Oct. 29) announcement that it comes with improved coding and cybersecurity capabilities. The model builds on a version released in public preview earlier this month, the French startup said...
Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere said in a Thursday (Oct. 29) company blog post that it rejects what it called “frontier fatalism.” That’s its term for the belief that AI will be monopolized by a handful of United States and Chinese tech giants. To offer...
Amazon has introduced several new capabilities for its Alexa for Shopping artificial intelligence assistant. “Our vision for Alexa for Shopping is to make every part of shopping as convenient as possible,” Rajiv Mehta, Amazon’s vice president of conversational shopping, said in an announcement Thursday (Oct. 29). “Alexa for Shopping...
About 2 million of Unilever’s roughly 20 million annual orders still arrive as emails, PDFs, spreadsheets and photos of paper forms, and each one used to take a person 15 to 20 minutes to key in. A system of five AI agents called NOVA now...
Google parent Alphabet has said demand for cloud services is rapidly increasing, citing growth in unfulfilled contracts. However, a Bloomberg News report Thursday (Oct. 29) points to a quarterly filing from the tech giant saying that upwards of a third of that quarterly growth stems from a joint venture that...