Google continues to bring its flagship AI models to its productivity apps, expanding its Gemini features.
The company today announced several updates to its Workspace products, including the addition of Audio Overviews and new streamlined methods for tracking meetings.
Audio Overviews, which was first introduced in Google’s popular NotebookLM, allows people to create podcasts on their chosen…
Researchers from Stanford University and Google DeepMind have unveiled Step-Wise Reinforcement Learning (SWiRL), a technique designed to enhance the ability of large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and tool use.
As the interest…
Coding with the help of AI models continues to gain popularity, but many have highlighted issues that arise when developers rely on coding assistants.
However, researchers from MIT, McGill University, ETH Zurich, Johns Hopkins University, Yale and the Mila-Quebec Artificial…
Ocient Raises $42.1 Million for Data Solutions
April 23, 2025
Hyperscale data warehouse vendor Ocient announced today that it has raised $42.1 million as the second extension of its series B funding to accelerate the development and delivery of energy-efficient solutions for costly and unwieldy operational data and AI workloads.
The funding infusion doesn’t just add to the Chicago startup’s already hefty war chest; it sharpens a mission to make…
Aethir, a provider of decentralized GPU cloud compute, announced the launch of AI Unbundled, an industry-wide alliance for the development of artificial intelligence in Web3.
The initiative brings together top decentralized infrastructure providers, blockchain networks, and…
Anthropic just analyzed 700,000 Claude conversations — and found its AI has a moral code of its own
April 22, 2025
Anthropic, the AI company founded by former OpenAI employees, has pulled back the curtain on an unprecedented analysis of how its AI assistant Claude expresses values during actual conversations with users. The research, released today, reveals both reassuring alignment with…
A segment on CBS weekly in-depth TV news program 60 Minutes last night (also shared on YouTube here) offered an inside look at Google’s DeepMind and the vision of its co-founder and Nobel Prize-winning CEO, legendary AI researcher Demis Hassabis.
The interview traced Google DeepMind rapid progress in artificial intelligence and its ambition to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a…
How NTT Research has shifted more basic R&D into AI for the enterprise | Kazu Gomi interview
April 21, 2025
Kazu Gomi has a big view of the technology world from his perch in Silicon Valley. And as president and CEO of NTT Research, a division of the big Japanese telecommunications firm NTT, Gomi can control the R&D budget for a sizable chunk of the basic research that is done…
Just a year ago, the narrative around Google and enterprise AI felt stuck. Despite inventing core technologies like the Transformer, the tech giant seemed perpetually on the back foot, overshadowed by OpenAI‘s viral success, Anthropic‘s coding prowess and Microsoft‘s…
The distant horizon is always murky, the minute details obscured by sheer distance and atmospheric haze. This is why forecasting the future is so imprecise: We cannot clearly see the outlines of the shapes and events ahead of us. Instead, we take educated guesses.
The newly published AI 2027 scenario, developed by a team of AI researchers and forecasters with experience at institutions like…
