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Google Search Now Plugs Straight Into Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music
AI Mode in Google Search can now shop, design and save playlists through connected apps. Here is what it actually does and who pays.
NVIDIA's New AI Search Models Top Global Rankings and Cut Agent Costs
NVIDIA released three new embedding models that set a new accuracy record for AI information retrieval. The best one also helps AI agents finish tasks faster and cheaper.
Energy IPOs Are Breaking Records Because AI Needs So Much Power
Investors poured $12.6 billion into energy company stock offerings in the first half of 2025 alone, more than any six-month period since the dot-com peak in 1999. The reason: AI data centres are hungry for electricity, and someone has to supply it.
OpenAI Is Selling a $70 Basketball and a $175 Quarter-Zip. Who Is the Customer?
The ChatGPT maker has quietly launched a line of branded merchandise, including a rubber basketball and academic-themed clothing. It is less clear who is supposed to buy any of it.
DoorDash Is Building a Tool That Lets AI Software Place Food Orders on Its Own
A new command-line tool from DoorDash lets developers and AI agents search restaurants, fill a cart, and check out without ever opening an app. It's a small but telling sign of where online services are heading.
The ex-DeepMind researcher who raised $300 million before his startup had a product
Andrew Dai spent over a decade helping build some of the most influential AI systems in the world. Now he thinks visual AI is where the next big leap happens, and investors are betting heavily that he's right.
A Brain Implant Let a Paralysed Man Feed Himself Again. Here Is How It Works.
Keith Thomas lost movement from the chest down in a swimming accident. Electrodes implanted in his brain have given him back control of his arms and hands, and even the ability to feel touch.
Ultra-fast AI proof checking: what a new maths result means for verifying huge data
Researchers have found a way to check approximate facts about enormous datasets using only a tiny sliver of the data, twice over. Here is why that matters.
AMI Labs' CEO Says 'Superintelligence' Is a Meaningless Word. Here's What He's Building Instead.
Alexandre LeBrun raised over a billion dollars to teach AI how the physical world works. He thinks the buzzwords his rivals love are, at best, unhelpful.
Testing AI Fairness Rules Is Easy. Proving They Hold Is a Different Problem Entirely
New research finds that a mathematical shortcut linking two kinds of AI auditing breaks down the moment you try to verify, not just test, that a system behaves consistently.
China's Kimi K3 could match Anthropic's best model and it will be free to use
Moonshot AI's next release is set to be the largest open-weight model from China, and early reports suggest it can go toe-to-toe with Anthropic's most capable closed system.
One operator, one button: Xpanner's robot arm now lifts solar panels so crews don't have to
A California startup has turned a standard excavator into an automated solar panel lifter, cutting a ten-person manual crew down to three.
1Password lets Claude log into your accounts without ever seeing your passwords
A new integration lets Anthropic's AI assistant complete tasks that need your login details, while a security layer keeps your actual credentials hidden from the AI.
Robots are now shaping missile parts for Lockheed Martin, and the process looks like a digital blacksmith
A startup called Machina Labs has won a contract to make metal components for a US Air Force missile, using robotic arms that hammer sheet metal into shape the way a blacksmith would, only faster and guided by software.
TikTok Under UK Investigation for Failing to Protect Children Online
Britain's media regulator has opened a formal probe into whether TikTok's age checks are good enough to stop children seeing content about self-harm, suicide and pornography.
The EU Just Forced Google to Open Android and Search to Its AI Rivals
Two new rulings from Brussels mean ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity could soon work as deeply as Gemini does on your Android phone. Here is what changes, and when.
A Smaller AI Trained on One Language Just Beat Two Bigger, Newer Models at Reading Brazilian Portuguese
DharmaOCR outscored both Mistral OCR4 and Unlimited-OCR on a Portuguese reading test, and the reason comes down to focus, not size.
How Satellites and AI Are Catching Illegal Fishers in Indonesian Waters
Indonesia tracks nearly 15,000 fishing vessels from shore using satellite feeds and pattern-spotting software. The results are concrete. The cat-and-mouse game is just beginning.
An AI Bot Broke Into Hugging Face. Hugging Face Used AI to Catch It.
The AI research platform disclosed a real-world attack run entirely by autonomous software, and the incident exposed a blind spot that every company relying on AI security tools needs to understand.
AI Is Moving Into the Heart of American Policing, and Almost Nobody Is Watching
From facial-recognition cameras to AI systems that decide where officers go next, a booming industry is selling police departments tools that critics warn could make accountability much harder.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs open their bioresilience playbook
The two AI labs say they will share models with vetted partners to speed vaccine design and catch outbreaks earlier, while adding safeguards against misuse.