Personal Assistants
Amazon Alexa Plus can now create AI-generated podcasts
Amazon's Alexa Plus can now generate AI-powered podcasts on virtually any topic, with customizable AI hosts that...
The Verge AI
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Pope Leo XIV presents first AI encyclical, Anthropic co-founder invited as guest speaker
Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25, with Anthropic co-founder...
The Decoder
Personal Assistants
Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes
Amazon has expanded Alexa+ with a new AI-powered feature that can generate custom podcast episodes on demand. This...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Humanoid, Schaeffler to Bring Thousands of Robots to Factories
Humanoid and Schaeffler have announced a major deal to deploy thousands of humanoid robots in factories, marking one of...
AI Business
Coding Co-pilotxAI
Musk’s xAI Launches Grok Build to Take on Claude Code, Codex
Musk's xAI has launched Grok Build, a coding assistant designed to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's...
AI Business
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and a culture of "just a little bit of fraud"
Stanford student Theo Baker discusses how ChatGPT and AI have intensified an existing culture of academic dishonesty at...
The Decoder
Research & Papers
Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment
Import AI newsletter covering multiple AI research topics including AI security vulnerabilities (Stuxnet analogy),...
Import AI
Ethics & Regulation
MAGA-aligned groups want government oversight of frontier AI models
A coalition of conservative organizations led by Humans First has urged President Trump to issue an executive order...
The Decoder
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Anthropic to brief global financial regulators on cyber flaws found by Claude Mythos
Anthropic will brief global finance ministries and central banks on cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the financial...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
Sector Snapshot: Quantum Computing Startup Investment Slows In 2026 While Public Markets Hold Strong
While deal counts remain robust for quantum startup investments and big rounds are still getting done, overall funding...
Crunchbase News
Startups & Funding
South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses
South Korean startup LetinAR is developing advanced optical technology in the form of thumbnail-sized lenses designed...
TechCrunch AI
Coding Co-pilotAnthropic
I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?
A non-technical person experiments with AI-assisted code generation using Claude to build a database application for...
Wired AI
Coding Co-pilotOpenAI
OpenAI and Dell partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments
OpenAI and Dell have partnered to deploy Codex, an AI coding agent, in hybrid and on-premise enterprise environments....
OpenAI Blog
Personal Assistants
Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping as Rufus moves behind the scenes
Amazon has launched Alexa for Shopping, integrating its Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ across multiple platforms...
AI News
Research & PapersGoogle
NVIDIA Introduces a 4-Bit Pretraining Methodology Using NVFP4, Validated on a 12B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer at 10T Token Horizon
NVIDIA introduces NVFP4, a 4-bit pretraining methodology that combines selective BF16 layers, random Hadamard...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
AI startup revenue hits $80 billion, but Anthropic and OpenAI take almost all of it
Anthropic and OpenAI dominate the AI startup revenue market, capturing 89% of the $80 billion in total revenue among...
The Decoder
Personal AssistantsApple
Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats
Apple is planning a revamp of its Siri virtual assistant with privacy as a major theme. The update will reportedly...
TechCrunch AI
Personal AssistantsGoogle
Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View
Google is expanding access to its AI Ultra subscription globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street...
DeepMind Blog
LLMGoogle
Introducing Gemini Omni
Google introduces Gemini Omni, a new AI model representing an advancement in the Gemini family of large language...
DeepMind Blog