Google is taking a familiar consumer AI trend—avatars—and pushing it one step closer to something that feels less like “watch an AI” and more like “be in the video.” With its Vids product, the company is reportedly adding personalized AI…
Roblox has never been just a game platform—it’s been a place where millions of people learn the basics of building, experimenting, and publishing interactive worlds. Now, with the rollout of its new “Build” feature inside the mobile app, Roblox is…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been talking about artificial intelligence in a way that’s both familiar and revealing: familiar because it’s framed as a tool for efficiency, and revealing because she’s describing it as something her administration is using…
Enterprises are moving fast on AI infrastructure—so fast that many can’t yet answer a basic question: what does the compute actually cost, and what return is it producing? A new VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 107 enterprises (100+ employees) paints…
Enterprise AI is hitting a new kind of wall—and it’s not the one most teams think they’re climbing. For years, the conversation around retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has centered on improving the “plumbing”: better embeddings, larger indexes, faster vector search, more…
Enterprises are building agent systems with a familiar promise: “We’ll evaluate it before it reaches customers.” But a new wave of enterprise research suggests the real problem isn’t that teams aren’t running enough tests. It’s that the tests they trust…
Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new identity—and, more importantly, a clearer place in the company’s broader AI strategy. NotebookLM, the product that helped popularize the idea of “conversational notes” powered by large language models, is being renamed…
Google is taking another meaningful step toward turning AI from a conversational tool into something closer to a working assistant. In a new update to its AI Mode, the company is expanding the feature beyond answering questions and now allowing…
DoorDash is taking another step toward making everyday commerce “agent-ready” by launching a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers—and, increasingly, AI agents—search stores, assemble carts, and place orders directly from the terminal. The move may sound…
OpenAI’s latest hardware chatter has taken an unexpected turn: alongside the company’s reported first foray into physical devices, a “ChatGPT basketball” has emerged as the kind of product that makes people stop scrolling. It’s the sort of item that sounds…
Andrew Dai has spent more than a decade in the kind of AI work that rarely looks like “startup life” from the outside. The work is slow, technical, and often invisible until it suddenly isn’t—when a new capability shows up…
AI headlines have a way of turning every new model into a prophecy. One release becomes “the step toward AGI.” Another demo becomes “proof of superintelligence.” The language spreads quickly because it’s catchy, because it compresses uncertainty into a single,…