Google Expands Gemini AI Integration In Chrome To India Canada And New Zealand
Google is expanding integration of its AI assistant Gemini in the Google Chrome to additional regions, including India, Canada, and New Zealand. The rollout introduces a sidebar interface that allows…
Google Completes $32 Billion Acquisition Of Cybersecurity Firm Wiz After Regulatory Approval
Google has completed its $32 billion cash acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz, finalizing a deal first announced a year earlier. The transaction represents the largest acquisition in Google’s history…
TikTok Partners With Apple Music To Enable Full Song Playback Inside The App
TikTok has partnered with Apple Music to allow subscribers to play full songs directly from the social network. The new feature lets Apple Music users start complete tracks after discovering…
Canopii Develops Autonomous Robotic Greenhouses Designed To Shorten Produce Supply Chains
Canopii has developed an autonomous greenhouse system designed to grow crops from seeding to harvest without human intervention. The Portland-based company says its robotic farms can produce up to 40,000…
Startup Taya Raises $5 Million For Voice-Only AI Note-Taking Necklace Designed For Privacy
A wearable startup called Taya has introduced a necklace designed to record and summarize voice notes while limiting recordings to the wearer’s voice. The company also announced a $5 million…
AI Data Center Boom Drives Demand For Worker “Man Camps” In Remote Construction Sites
Developers building large artificial intelligence data centers are increasingly turning to temporary housing compounds known as “man camps” to accommodate the hundreds or thousands of workers required during construction. The…
AMI Labs Raises $1.03 Billion To Develop AI World Models Focused On Real-World Understanding
AMI Labs, an artificial intelligence research startup co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to develop a new category of…
Whoop Launches Women’s Health Blood Test Panel And Menstrual Cycle Insights Feature
Fitness wearable maker Whoop announced a new women’s health panel through its Whoop Labs blood testing service and introduced a menstrual cycle insights feature in its app, expanding the company’s…
Apple Produces 25% Of Global iPhones In India As Supply Chain Shift Accelerates
Apple is now manufacturing about 25% of its global iPhone output in India, reaching a milestone analysts predicted several years ago as the company continues efforts to diversify production away…
AI Networking Startup Eridu Raises $200 Million Series A To Build New Infrastructure For Data Center AI
Eridu, an artificial intelligence networking startup founded by veteran technology entrepreneur Drew Perkins, said Tuesday it has emerged from stealth with a $200 million Series A funding round aimed at…
Lux Aeterna Raises $10 Million To Develop Reusable Satellites With Heat Shield Technology
Lux Aeterna, a startup founded by a former SpaceX satellite engineer, has raised $10 million in seed funding to develop satellite structures designed to survive atmospheric reentry and return payloads…
Solid State Transformer Startups Gain Funding As Data Center Power Demands Increase
A new generation of startups is developing solid state transformers as an alternative to the iron-core transformer, a technology that has supported electrical grids for more than 140 years but…
Google Expands Gemini AI Features Across Docs, Sheets, Slides, And Drive
Google announced Tuesday that it is adding new Gemini-powered artificial intelligence features across its Workspace applications, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, allowing users to generate documents, presentations, and spreadsheets…
Zoom To Launch AI Avatars For Meetings And Introduce New AI Productivity Tools
Zoom said Tuesday that its AI-powered avatars, designed to represent users in online meetings, will become available later this month as part of a broader rollout of artificial intelligence features…
Adobe Rolls Out Photoshop AI Assistant Beta And Expands Firefly Image Editing Features
Adobe said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence assistant for Photoshop is now available in beta on the web and mobile applications, while the company also introduced additional AI-powered editing tools…
Dutch Intelligence Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal And WhatsApp Users In Global Phishing Campaign
Russian government-linked hackers are carrying out a global campaign targeting users of Signal and WhatsApp, according to Dutch intelligence agencies. The campaign focuses particularly on government officials, military personnel, and…
Neura Robotics And Qualcomm Partner To Develop Processors And Platforms For Physical AI Robots
Neura Robotics and Qualcomm have announced a partnership to develop technology for the next generation of robots powered by physical artificial intelligence. The collaboration focuses on integrating Qualcomm processors with…
Slate Auto Names Former Amazon Executive Peter Faricy CEO Ahead Of Electric Truck Launch
Slate Auto has appointed Peter Faricy as its new chief executive, replacing the company’s founding CEO months before the planned launch of its first electric truck. The leadership change took…
OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo To Expand AI Security Testing For Enterprise Agent Platform
OpenAI has announced the acquisition of Promptfoo, a company founded in 2024 to develop tools that identify vulnerabilities in large language models. OpenAI said the startup’s technology will be integrated…