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General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips
Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research lab that's using...
Amazon and Chobani adopt Strella's AI interviews for customer research as fast-growing startup raises $14M
One year after emerging from stealth, Strella has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered customer research platform, the company announced Thursday. The round, led by...
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Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products
Spotify has announced new partnerships with major record labels — including Sony, Universal, Warner, and Merlin — to build “responsible AI” tools that protect artists’ rights and ensure fair compensation....
Google’s Veo 3.1 Just Made AI Filmmaking Sound—and Look—Uncomfortably Real
Google’s latest AI upgrade, Veo 3. 1, is blurring the line between creative tool and movie studio. The update lets users adjust lighting and shadows, stitch scenes together, and —...
Microsoft launches 'Hey Copilot' voice assistant and autonomous agents for all Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft is fundamentally reimagining how people interact with their computers, announcing Thursday a sweeping transformation of Windows 11 that brings voice-activated AI assistants, autonomous software agents, and contextual intelligence to...
Humans Strike Back: Study Finds AI-Written Articles No Longer Outnumber Real Writers on the Web
The robots had their moment, but humans are clawing back. A new analysis shows that AI-generated writing briefly overtook human-written content online — before leveling off. The report from Axios...
ACE prevents context collapse with ‘evolving playbooks’ for self-improving AI agents
A new framework from Stanford University and SambaNova addresses a critical challenge in building robust AI agents: context engineering. Called Agentic Context Engineering (ACE), the framework automatically populates and modifies...
Trillion-parameter AI model from Ant Group targets reasoning benchmarks with dual release strategy
Ant Group has entered the trillion-parameter AI model arena with Ling-1T, a newly open-sourced language model that the Chinese fintech giant positions as a breakthrough in balancing computational efficiency with advanced reasoning...