Taco Bell has apparently rolled out voice AI-powered ordering at more than 500 drive-throughs, leading to unflattering viral moments like someone ordering 18,000 water cups in order to “bypass” the AI and get connected to a human server....
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Two months after making a $14.3B investment in Scale AI, Meta is relying heavily on its competitors to train next generation AI models....
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After a bombshell report on Meta allowing its AI chatbots to have sensual chats with minors, the company is updating its policies....
Nvidia reported another massive quarter this week with $46.7 billion in revenue, a 56% year-over-year increase driven almost entirely by AI demand. But despite CEO Jensen Huang’s bold prediction of $3 to 4 trillion in global AI infrastructure spending in the next five years, the...
Khalid Ashmawy found it hard to send money home while studying in Europe. Now, he’s launched a startup to help other Egyptians with the same problem....
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Reliance is launching a new subsidiary to drive India's AI ambitions, including a pending partnership with OpenAI....
With an interactive library that includes tongue twisters, breathing exercises, and advice on gestures, Vocal Image is also leaning more and more into AI to give automated feedback and personalized tips....
The deal allows the U.S. to take more equity in Intel if the company doesn't retain at least 51% ownership in its foundry business....
Anthropic is making some major changes to how it handles user data. Users have until September 28 to take action....
Fans accused Will Smith of sharing AI-generated videos from his tour, but the situation is more complicated than it seems....
MathGPT AI, a tutor and teaching assistant that helps students learn, expands to over 50 institutions...
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves....
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves....
In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating....
Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion....
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Whether AI is a bubble or not, it's helping some small businesses save real money. Here's how one has cautiously approached adoption....
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Maisa AI is built on the premise that enterprise automation requires accountable AI agents, not opaque black boxes....
TransBnk has raised $25 million in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners to digitize India’s corporate banking....
Nvidia's revenue hit $46.7 billion in the second quarter, a 56% increase compared to the same period last year....
The company offers an AI voice assistant that helps 911 centers offload non-emergency call volume....
The report, in its fifth iteration, showcases two and a half years of data about consumers' evolving use of AI products....
In an effort to set a new industry standard, OpenAI and Anthropic opened up their AI models for cross-lab safety testing....
Steve Jobs once said, “Everything’s a remix.” And that’s a philosophy that Mark Cuban has taken to heart, building an entire entrepreneurial and investment career on that simple belief. The real opportunity, Cuban says, lies in spotting patterns others miss and turning them into billion-dollar...
The Southeast Asian country reaches an AI milestone as it looks to become a more competitive player in the global AI race....
Plaud.ai launches its new Plaud Note Pro hardware notetaker with better mics and recording range....