Amazon Music Now Features Alexa+
Hartley Charlton / macrumors - The Amazon Music app now integrates with Alexa+ on iOS and Android, allowing users to navigate its extensive catalog via intuitive conversation.Amazon today announced that Alexa+, its upgraded AI-driven assistant, is now available in beta to members of th…
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AI analytical agent caps a wave of new and enhanced Snowflake products
Paul Gillin / siliconangle - Snowflake Inc. today announced the general availability of Snowflake Intelligence, the centerpiece of the company’s latest wave of artificial intelligence-driven products aimed at allowing employees across skill levels to derive insights from enterprise d…
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OpenAI inks $38 billion AWS contract after cutting Microsoft approval ties
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - OpenAI announced a $38 billion agreement with Amazon on Monday to purchase cloud computing services over seven years, enabling the company to scale its AI infrastructure following a recent restructuring that removed the need for Microsoft’s approval on su…
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Vigilant AI.ai Secures £585K Pre-seed Funding To Launch Compliant “AI Teammates”
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Derby-based Vigilant AI.ai, which develops AI teammates for regulated industries, has raised £585,000 in a pre-seed round led by Haatch. The funding comes from three Haatch-managed sources: Haatch, the East Midlands Combined County Authority, and the Brit…
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp slams ‘detractors’ as company delivers record revenue again
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Big data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc. delivered solid results that surpassed analysts’ expectations and offered bullish guidance for the current quarter, citing artificial intelligence as its most important growth driver. In its third-quar…
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Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work
Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - OpenAI's approach to working with copyrighted content is to ask forgiveness, not permission.
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Next version of Apple's personal assistant Siri will be powered by Google Gemini
techspot - Bloomberg's Apple guru Mark Gurman notes that the new Siri will "lean on Google's Gemini model" for features such as AI-powered web search. Apple expects Gemini to make Siri more capable than ever, though some employees reportedly question whether iPhone …
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Google & Bing Are Indexing Grokipedia - AI Generated Wikipedia / Encyclopedia
barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia launched a week ago with over 800,000 AI-generated pages, and both Google and Bing have already indexed hundreds, if not thousands, of those AI-generated pages.
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Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time
Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Suleyman thinks conscious AI is an "absurd" pursuit.
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Trump says Nvidia can't sell its most powerful AI chips to China
Alex Daniel / qz - The president's comments are a change from several months ago, when his administration released a plan for expanding AI exports to U.S. allies
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Microsoft Inks $9.7 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With IREN in New Outsourcing Push
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft continues its AI infrastructure outsourcing strategy, signing a $9.7 billion, five-year deal with IREN for NVIDIA GB300 GPU cloud capacity.The post Microsoft Inks $9.7 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal With IREN in New Outsourcing Push appeared fir…
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Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation
Robert Hart / theverge - Google says it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained the model, designed for developers, “fabricated serious criminal allegations” about her. In a post on X, Google’s official news account said the com…
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Ilya Sutskever Deposition Reveals How Sam Altman’s 2023 Firing Was Planned for Over a Year
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - A newly public deposition from OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever reveals the plot to fire CEO Sam Altman was a year in the making, based on a secret memo.The post Ilya Sutskever Deposition Reveals How Sam Altman’s 2023 Firing Was Planned for Over a Year ap…
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GitLaw Raises $3M Pre-seed Led by Jackson Square Ventures To Launch Its AI Legal companion
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - GitLaw, an AI-powered legal companion for businesses, has raised $3M in pre-seed funding led by Jackson Square Ventures, with participation from Flex Capital, Background Capital, and angel investors. Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneur Nick Holzherr, G…
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Rising energy prices put AI and data centers in the crosshairs
Tim De Chant / techcrunch - A majority of consumers say they’re worried about data centers driving up electricity costs. Is the industry prepared for a possible backlash?
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OpenAI moves Sora to paid model, discovers concept of paying for content
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI is shifting Sora from free to paid video generation after discovering that the 30 free videos per day model isn't sustainable.The article OpenAI moves Sora to paid model, discovers concept of paying for content appeared first on THE DECODER.
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Tim Cook Says Next-Gen Siri Still on Pace for ‘Next Year’, Along With Additional AI Partners
John Gruber / cnbc - Kif Leswing at CNBC interviewed Tim Cook ahead of yesterday’s Apple earnings report: Cook said that the company still plans to release an updatedversion of Siri next year, and said that there were moreforthcoming partnerships like the company’s agreement …
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CoreWeave Acquires AI Development Platform Marimo in Latest Strategic Expansion
Jon Swartz / techstrong - CoreWeave Inc. said on Friday it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Marimo Inc., the company behind open-source marimo notebook, a reactive Python development environment designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) and data applicati…
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Getty Images and Perplexity Ink Licensing Deal as AI Firm Battles Copyright Lawsuits
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - AI search firm Perplexity signs a multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images, a strategic pivot as it faces a wave of copyright lawsuits from major publishers.The post Getty Images and Perplexity Ink Licensing Deal as AI Firm Battles Copyright Lawsuits a…
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Nvidia to invest up to $1B in French AI startup Poolside as its valuation soars to $12B
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Nvidia is preparing to invest up to $1 billion in Poolside, whose valuation is set to leap to…
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