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YouTube Live gets a major update, introduces dual-format streaming, minigames, and more
YouTube announced new features for livestreaming, such as letting creators play mini-games, AI-powered highlights, and more.
MGX co-invests with Silver Lake in Altera acquisition
MGX, an Abu Dhabi artificial intelligence investment firm and partner of Silver Lake, said on Tuesday it has joined the buyout group in acquiring a majority stake in California programmable...
Lawyering In The Age Of AI: Why Artificial Intelligence Might Make Lawyers More Human
AI could rehumanize the legal profession.
Humanized AI Transforming IT Risks, Governance, and Compliance in Insurance
Unravel how humanized agentic AI transforms risk management, governance, and compliance for small and medium insurance businesses, driving trust and resilience.
The Open Source Initiative’s executive director departs – what it means for the OSAID debate
Will the OSI continue with its current AI definition path? This issue continues to be debated in both AI and open-source circles.
BEHAVIOR-1K is set to become for robotics what ImageNet was for computer vision
Stanford University has released a new robotics benchmark called BEHAVIOR-1K. The goal is similar to what ImageNet did for computer vision or MMLU did for language models – to give...
Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCU Sue Chinese AI Company MiniMax, Alleging It ‘Pirates and Plunders’ Studios Copyrighted Works on ‘Massive Scale’
Disney, WBD and NBCUniversal filed a lawsuit against MiniMax, a Chinese AI company, alleging “willful and brazen” copyright infringement.
Google Opens Waltham Cross Data Centre as Part of Two-year £5 Billion Investment in the UK to Help Power its AI Economy
/PRNewswire/ — Google today announced the opening of its data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, as part of a two-year £5 billion investment in the UK….
CoreWeave and Nvidia Made a Deal That Has Investors Questioning Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Demand @themotleyfool #stocks $NVDA $CRWV
Nvidia will buy unused AI capacity from CoreWeave if there is not enough demand.
General-purpose humanoid developer Figure AI exceeds $1 billion after Series C funding round
Figure AI exceeded $1 billion in capital through its Series C financing round, with a post-money valuation of $39 billion for further development of its general-purpose humanoids.
YouTube is adding AI into more parts of content creation
More YouTube content will be powered by AI
Workday to buy AI firm Sana for $1.1 billion as HR software deal-making heats up
Workday said on Tuesday it would buy AI firm Sana for about $1.1 billion, underscoring growing consolidation in the HR software sector while companies look to integrate the booming technology...
YouTube’s New AI-Powered Tools Will Let Creators Turn Photos Into Videos, Transform Dialogue Into Songs and More
At the 2025 Made on YouTube event, the platform announced new AI tools including the addition of Google DeepMind’s Veo 3 to YouTube Shorts.
Hollywood studios sue Chinese AI company for alleged copyright infringement
Disney, Universal and Warner Bros Discovery claim MiniMax engaged in ‘wilful and brazen’ violations
How AI fraud Is evolving faster than AP & procurement defenses
AI fraud attacks evolving faster than corporate defenses
AI Academy, Apprenti to Partner on AI Registered Apprenticeship Program
NC State’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Academy is teaming up with Apprenti, a leading Registered Apprenticeship ambassador and intermediary, to launch the first-ever nationwide registered AI (artificial intelligence) Associate apprenticeship program...
Remapping travel with agentic AI
Agentic AI could upend the travel industry. We look at how travel and hospitality organizations can use this technology to its full transformative potential.
Robotics startup Figure valued at $39 billion in latest funding round
AI robotics company Figure said on Tuesday it had received over $1 billion in committed capital in its latest funding round that valued the firm at $39 billion post money.
Are humanoid robots really tech’s next big thing?
As China and Silicon Valley go all in on humanoid robots, what’s the likelihood they’ll be widely deployed in the next five years?
‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models
Nature – Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.
Robotics Startup Figure AI Valued at $39 Billion in New Funding
Figure AI Inc., a company developing humanoid robots, has received more than $1 billion in committed capital in a financing round that values it at $39 billion, a deal that...
UAE Releases An Open, Small AI Model That Punches Above Its Weight
UAE’s MBZUAI and G24 released K2 Think, an open-source reasoning model with only 32 billion parameters that in trials rivals systems more than 20 times as large.
How to Stop China’s AI Chip Smuggling
Trump should strike a deal with Southeast Asia to secure imported U.S. AI chips.
Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases
Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems and vendors.
1.1 million ChatGPT messages analyzed — turns out we’re mostly just asking about ourselves
It’s not just for the office anymore
AI that understands the physical world is the industry’s next big wave
Autodesk’s new models will help designers shape and edit plans for buildings and products.
‘We don’t want California to set the rules for AI across the country,’ Trump adviser says
Trump adviser Sriram Krishnan framed the AI race as “an existential race with China.”
Figure valued at $39 billion in latest funding round
AI robotics company Figure said it had received over $1 billion in committed capital in its latest funding round that valued the firm at $39 billion post money.
Notre Dame to host summit on AI, faith and human flourishing, introducing new DELTA framework
The Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative will host the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing on …
With Vibe Coding AI tools generating more code than ever before, enterprises need quality assurance tools to make sure it all works – here’s how to evaluate and choose the right one
CodeRabbit’s $60M funding highlights enterprise need for AI code review platforms, with organizations seeing 25% efficiency gains.
Artificial intelligence detects mild depression through micro-movements in facial muscles
Depression is one of the most common mental health challenges, but its early signs are often overlooked. It is often linked to reduced facial expressivity. However, whether mild depression or...
BoxWorks 2025: AI and Automation Take Center Stage
BoxWorks 2025 brought together Box customers and partners in San Francisco, September 11-12th with key announcements that underscore Box’s commitment to AI and its power to transform unstructured data… i.e....
Keep an Eye on Clinical Validation Gaps in AI-Enabled Medical Devices
Health care leaders may want to keep a closer eye on clinical validation for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled medical devices (AIMDs), based on a recent JAMA Health Forum study.
Open Source Synthetic Data with MOSTLY AI
A Blog post by Kenneth Hamilton on Hugging Face
AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want?
The ‘knowledge economy’ promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge it
Google announces £5bn AI investment in UK before Trump visit
Rachel Reeves says move is a ‘vote of confidence’ in British economy as she prepares to open firm’s first UK datacentre
Around one-third of AI search tool answers make unsupported claims
AI tools including Perplexity and Open AI’s GPT-4 often provide one-sided answers to contentious questions, and don’t back up their arguments with reliable sources
Honda’s Uniting Its Self-Balancing, Robotics Research Into A Unique EV Mobility Machine
This is the Honda UNI-ONE, and it’s aiming to be a next-level mobility experience for folks who have a tough time moving around for any reason.
The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs
AI is reshaping work, but eliminating entry-level jobs is short-sighted. These roles are crucial for developing future leaders, fostering innovation, enriching organizational culture, and protecting society. Instead of cutting these...