Google is giving Gmail users a way to avoid manually searching their inbox, according to a Thursday (Sept. 3) company blog post. Gmail Live is part of a larger series of new voice artificial intelligence offerings for Gmail, Google Docs and the note-taking tool Google...
Artificial intelligence cloud company Nscale has signed a major, multi-year agreement with humanoid robotics developer Figure. This deal will see Nscale provide computing resources for Figure and commit at least $3.5 billion — and up to $6 billion — to power the development of Figure’s AI models and...
Anthropic has reportedly broken with other tech giants over a new Massachusetts AI regulation. The proposal before that state’s senate would require artificial intelligence (AI) developers to hire independent evaluators to assess their models for the potential catastrophic risks every four months, The Information reported Thursday (Sept. 3)....
Shoes, karaoke machines and action cameras have little in common. However, their makers have all found artificial intelligence as the same potential second act. GoPro is the latest unlikely addition, following Allbirds, which sold its footwear business to pursue AI compute, and Singing Machine, which...
Nvidia agreed to acquire artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to a Thursday (Sept. 3) company blog post by Founder and CEO Jensen Huang. “Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and expand access to AI for developers and...
Banks have a lot of data on their customers, but most of it sits unused. The customer gets flooded the same generic offer everyone else gets, and the bank misses a warning sign of fraud its own systems could have caught earlier, simply because nothing...
Anthropic is giving retailers a set of blueprints to build artificial intelligence agents that can help shoppers find products and assist merchants with tasks including inventory, pricing and marketing, as retailers prepare for the holiday shopping season. The AI company announced the blueprint Wednesday (Sept....
The Federal Trade Commission wants to use existing consumer protection law against artificial intelligence companies that present their systems as accurate but deliberately steer answers toward another goal without clearly telling users. The proposal, published July 1 under Section 5 of the FTC Act, calls...
The technology industry’s campaign to block state regulation of artificial intelligence is losing political force as public anxiety and election-year pressures embolden lawmakers to advance new restrictions. State legislators are pursuing measures covering frontier-model safety, independent audits, children’s interactions with chatbots, data privacy, and the...