This week’s hands-on reports about Google’s Gemini AI agent, “Spark,” landed with a particular kind of unease—one that doesn’t come from the usual worries about hallucinations or unreliable answers. Instead, the discomfort is tied to something more intimate: Spark appears…
A UK MP has launched what is being framed as a “test case” against xAI, challenging whether the makers of AI systems can be held responsible for harmful outputs—particularly when those outputs are sexual images that appear to be fake.…
Amazon has quietly added a new twist to online shopping: instead of only searching for products that already exist in its catalog, its search experience can now surface AI-generated “product images” based on what you type. The change is subtle…
Amazon is quietly changing what “search” means in online shopping. Instead of treating a query as a purely text-based request that must be translated into product listings, the retailer is adding a new visual layer: AI-generated product images that appear…
Meta is quietly but decisively repositioning WhatsApp from a messaging app into something closer to an always-on service layer for everyday life—and the lever it’s pulling is AI agents. In recent moves across its broader AI push, Meta has signaled…
Alphabet, the parent of Google, has moved to the front of the global capital markets again—this time not with a familiar buyback or a routine debt sale, but with an equity offering on a scale rarely seen in modern mega-cap…
Two founders who previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Meta have set out to solve a problem that rarely makes it into the glossy demos of voice AI: what happens when you try to deploy real-time communication technology in places…
In a move that signals how quickly AI search is becoming a regulated part of the internet’s infrastructure, U.K. regulators are requiring Google to provide website publishers with a practical way to opt out of generative AI search experiences. The…
Microsoft’s annual Build conference has always been a kind of scoreboard for the company’s AI ambitions. This year, though, it felt less like a progress report and more like a declaration of intent—especially in the shadow of Microsoft’s shifting relationship…
Meta is widening the aperture on AI customer support. WhatsApp Business’s AI agent—previously limited in reach—has now rolled out globally, according to reporting from TechCrunch. The move matters for two reasons: first, it signals that Meta is treating conversational automation…
Coralogix has raised $200 million in a Series F round, valuing the company at $1.6 billion. The news lands less than a year after its prior funding event, a pace that signals investors aren’t treating “AI monitoring” as a niche…
Google’s AI boom is colliding with a less glamorous but increasingly urgent resource: water. As data centers multiply to support machine learning workloads, cloud services, and the infrastructure behind generative AI, communities in the United States have raised alarms about…