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Voice AI Can Talk, But Can It Actually Listen?
A large-scale human study finds today's best voice models often miss the pauses, hesitations, and tone shifts that make real conversation work.
Rime raises $24 million to make AI phone calls feel less like talking to a robot
The San Francisco startup trains its voice models on real recorded conversations, not scraped internet audio. Its bet: better data means enterprise customers stop hanging up.
Meet Ode: The $1.5 Billion Company Anthropic Built to Put Its AI to Work Inside Your Business
Anthropic and a group of private equity firms have launched Ode, a new company that sends specialist engineers directly into businesses to implement AI. It is a bet that knowing how to use AI is now worth as much as building it.
South Korean Researchers Used AI to Design DNA That Folds Itself into Tiny Shapes
A new AI model cuts the hardest part out of DNA origami, the decades-old technique for sculpting genetic material into nanoscale structures with medical and scientific uses.
The engineer behind Apple Face ID now wants AI to read your brain
Hemispheric has raised $52 million to build an AI that diagnoses depression, Alzheimer's, and PTSD from a 15-minute brain scan. No surgery needed.
George Lucas Says AI Is the Future of Film-Making and Critics Are Like Luddites Who Rejected Cars
The Star Wars creator, now 82, told an interviewer that artificial intelligence makes films easier to produce and that resistance to it is pointless. His comments put him firmly on one side of Hollywood's sharpest debate.
Vint Cerf just joined a startup trying to give AI agents a verifiable ID on the internet
One of the people who built the internet thinks AI agents need passports. He's now helping design them.
Indian AI startup Emergent hits $1.5 billion valuation after $130 million raise
The Bengaluru-based company lets non-technical business owners build software by typing plain instructions. It now has 200,000 paying customers and $120 million in annual revenue.
Australia sets up a national AI office and pledges to protect artists from copyright theft
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used a major speech at the University of Sydney to announce a new government AI body and promise that Australian creators will not hand their work to tech companies for free.
He Lost a $2,000 Ebike. Then the Chatbots Took Over.
A missing delivery turned into a months-long loop of automated dead ends. His story reflects a growing shift in customer service that is leaving real people stranded.
OpenAI Workers Are Bankrolling a Super PAC to Push Back Against Their Own Boss
Eight current and former OpenAI employees have quietly donated more than $215,000 to a political group that wants stricter rules on AI companies, setting up an unusual fight inside one of the world's most powerful tech firms.
Australia's Prime Minister vows to protect artists from AI copyright theft and clamps down on data centres
Anthony Albanese has pledged that writers, musicians and artists will keep control of their work and get paid when AI companies use it. New rules will also govern where giant data centres can be built and how much power they consume.
A consciousness expert just read Anthropic's Claude research. He is not convinced.
Anthropic published findings hinting that its AI model Claude might show early signs of consciousness. A leading brain scientist says the evidence does not hold up.
Palantir has £330m in NHS contracts. Should Britain be worried?
A US defence and surveillance company has quietly become one of the biggest tech suppliers to the British state. Here is what that means for patients, taxpayers and public data.
Australia's PM Promises Fast-Track Approvals for AI Data Centres. Critics Say That's Not Enough.
Anthony Albanese wants to speed up permits for the giant computer facilities that power AI. But policy experts warn Australia needs accountability guardrails first.
One Poisoned Email Can Secretly Rewrite Your AI Assistant's Memory
A newly described attack called MemGhost shows how a single message to your inbox can plant a false 'fact' inside an AI agent's long-term memory, without you ever knowing.
OpenAI Researcher Leaves to Build AI Drug Discovery Startup, Seeking $200M at $2B Valuation
Miles Wang, who studied how AI can speed up science, is reportedly heading out of OpenAI to start a company focused on finding new medicines faster.
This AI Router Cuts Costs by 2.6x by Learning From Its Own Mistakes
A new open-source system called ACRouter watches which AI model succeeds or fails on each task, remembers what it learned, and routes the next job smarter. In tests, it matched the performance of premium-only setups at less than half the price.
Most Americans want to force AI companies to share their profits with the public, poll finds
A new survey of nearly 1,700 U.S. adults shows 69% support taking half the stock of major AI firms and placing it into a public fund. The backdrop: rising tech layoffs and swelling corporate profits.
AI Startups Swallowed 80% of All Global Venture Capital in Early 2026
Investors put roughly $242 billion into artificial intelligence companies in just three months. That figure, from data tracker Crunchbase, has no historical parallel. Here is what it means if you work for a living.
The AI race is no longer just about who has the biggest model
Companies are quietly moving away from the most powerful AI and toward cheaper, smarter systems that pick the right tool for each job. Here is what that means for you.