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Amazon is rolling out AI-generated product images in its shopping app, and the move is raising eyebrows among retail observers who question why a massive e-commerce platform would show shoppers fake p

AethexAI, a voice AI startup focused on underserved markets in Africa and the Middle East, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures, with Enza Capital, Dorm Room Fund, Mojo Ventures,

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced ASSERT, an open-source framework designed to help developers test whether AI systems behave correctly for their specific products and services. Short for Adaptive Spec-

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has joined forces with Black Forest Labs, the German AI image-generation startup, as both a partner and adviser. The 82-year-old filmmaker confirmed to The New York

Microsoft is rolling out a new open-source framework called Agent Control Specification (ACS), designed to give developers more precise oversight over how autonomous AI agents behave once deployed. An

Google's new AI agent, Gemini Spark, is making waves as a tool that can autonomously handle multi-step tasks in the background, but early hands-on testing by The Verge's Jay Peters suggests the experi

Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark "superchip" at Computex in Taipei on Sunday, marking the company's aggressive push into the $200 billion CPU market with a processor designed specifically for AI-powered

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, has taken the first formal step toward going public. The company announced in a Monday blog post that it submitted a draft reg

WindBorne Systems, a startup founded by Stanford students in 2019, released its WeatherMesh 6 AI weather forecasting model on June 1, 2026, claiming it outperforms the systems developed by the Europea

Google's new Gemini Spark assistant runs around the clock in the cloud, allowing users to offload their digital tasks without keeping their computer powered on. CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted this dist

GitHub Copilot is shifting to a token-based billing system starting June 1, replacing its flat subscription model with a pay-per-usage approach that could significantly increase costs for many develop

A startup called Shift is offering to clean New Yorkers' homes for free — with one condition. The company wants to record everything its cleaners do: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting furnitu

Groq, the AI chip startup, is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investors as it pushes deeper into the inference neocloud market, according to sources cited by Axios. Th

AI chip startup Groq is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investor base, according to sources cited by Axios. The San Jose-based company is positioning this funding roun

China's Shanghai Futures Exchange is developing a derivatives market specifically for AI tokens, joining CME Group and the Intercontinental Exchange in building infrastructure for trading AI-related f

AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services, but customers will have to accept a small trade-off: cameras mounted on cleaners' heads recording every swipe of the sponge and vacuu

Anthropic has closed a massive $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI company for what could be its final private fundraising before going public. The Ser

Asana has purchased StackAI, a no-code agent-building platform, for $75 million as part of its push to become an AI-first workplace platform. The acquisition, announced Thursday alongside Asana's earn

Anthropic has launched Opus 4.8, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model, marking the fastest upgrade cycle in the company's recent history. The new model arrived just 41 days after Opus 4.7 hit

Vertu, the luxury smartphone maker headquartered in Hong Kong, has unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable device designed specifically for business executives who need to manage company operations on the

Google's AI Overview feature is making elementary spelling mistakes that have become the subject of ridicule online. The artificial intelligence incorrectly stated there are two P's in "Google" (there

Snowflake has committed $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services in a new cloud infrastructure agreement, the companies revealed Wednesday. The deal represents a substantial portion of Snowfl

Cognition, the startup behind the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has secured over $1 billion in new funding at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, the company revealed Wednesday. This marks a d

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sat down with The Verge's Nilay Patel for their fifth consecutive post-I/O developer conference interview, discussing how the company is fundamentally restructuri

OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, has secured $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet's growth venture fund. The company now commands a valuation of approximately $

Human Archive, a Silicon Valley-based startup, has raised $8.2 million in seed funding to pursue an unconventional strategy: using workers from India's gig economy to collect first-person video data t

ClickUp, the collaboration software startup once valued at $4 billion, laid off 22% of its workforce last Thursday, but CEO Zeb Evans insists this isn't about trimming costs. In a post on X, Evans fra

Pope Leo XIV released his inaugural encyclical on Monday, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," focused on protecting human dignity amid artificial intelligence. However, the 200-page document ventures far be

Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, recently shared his perspective on the evolving AI security landscape during an interview at a Los Angeles event. Speaking with measured composure, de Souza emph

Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" AI chatbot Grok is struggling to gain traction, according to a new Reuters investigation. The report reveals that Grok barely registers in federal records documenting how t

Google has launched Omni, a new family of generative AI models that can supposedly convert any input—photos, videos, text—into any other format. The first model in the lineup, Omni Flash, is now live

SpaceX's recent IPO filing reveals a significant shift in Elon Musk's energy strategy. While Musk built Tesla on the promise of electrifying the economy and moving away from fossil fuels, his AI ventu

Google gave attendees at this week's I/O developer conference a chance to test its upcoming AI-powered glasses with visual displays, offering a glimpse beyond the audio-only version scheduled to launc

President Donald Trump has postponed signing an executive order that would have established a process for the government to review AI models before their public release. Trump told the White House pre

Spotify is launching AI-powered features that let users generate their own personal podcasts directly within the app. The feature allows subscribers to create podcasts from ideas or custom prompts, wi

President Donald Trump has put off signing an executive order that would have established a process for the government to review AI models before they're released to the public. At the White House, Tr

Spotify unveiled a new AI-powered audiobook creation tool at its Investor Day event, developed in partnership with voice AI company ElevenLabs. The feature, designed for self-publishing audiobooks wit

Nvidia reported another quarter of record-breaking financial results, with $81.6 billion in revenue for the period ending April 26, representing a 20% increase from the previous quarter. The company's

Anthropic is on track to report its first profitable quarter, with the AI startup telling investors it expects to more than double its revenue to approximately $10.9 billion in Q2, according to the Wa

Shay Shwartz spent his teenage years as a hacker earning money from illicit activities, but after getting caught at 16, he decided to redirect his skills toward preventing cyberattacks rather than lau

Google unveiled Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation application for Google Workspace, during its Google I/O 2026 event on Tuesday. The tech company designed Pics specifically for access

Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at its annual I/O developer conference, positioning the new AI model as a significant leap in autonomous agent capabilities rather than just conversational AI. The com

Google DeepMind announced at its I/O developer conference that it is connecting Street View imagery to Project Genie, its general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environ

Google's AI assistant Gemini is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid, and according to The Verge's Allison Johnson, writing on May 19, 2026, it's starting to grate on users the same way Microsoft

SandboxAQ has announced a partnership with Anthropic to embed its scientific AI models directly into Claude, aiming to make drug discovery tools accessible to researchers without requiring specialized

South Korean startup LetinAR is positioning itself as a key supplier of optical technology for the AI smart glasses boom, having just closed an $18.5 million funding round led by Korea Development Ban

General Motors has eliminated approximately 600 salaried positions from its information technology division, representing more than 10% of that department, as part of what the automaker describes as a

McDonald's kicked off the AI drive-thru trend in 2021, becoming one of the first major fast-food chains to deploy voice-ordering chatbots at its locations. The company started small, testing the techn

ArXiv, a major open repository for preprint research papers, has announced a strict new policy targeting researchers who rely too heavily on large language models without proper oversight. The organiz

Andon Labs conducted an experiment called "Thinking Frequencies" where four AI models each ran their own internet radio station with $20 in seed money and minimal oversight. The stations included "Ope