Water quality is the most important thing for aquaculture farms to monitor to ensure their livestock remain healthy. While there are existing ways to monitor water quality – sensors and water testing kits – they are too expensive for many farmers in regions like Southeast Asia.
Aquawise wants to offer aquaculture farmers in Southeast Asia a better way to monitor their water quality by…
Google to invest $15B in Indian AI infrastructure hub
October 15, 2025
Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in India, even as the Indian government pushes for reduced reliance on U.S. tech giants.
On Tuesday, Google said it would build the data center in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, in…
Prezent raises $30 million to acquire AI services firms — starting with founder’s other company
October 14, 2025
Prezent, a startup that offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, said today that it has raised $30 million in funding led by Multiplier Capital, Greycroft, and Nomura Strategic Ventures, with participation from existing investors like Emergent Ventures…
California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots
October 14, 2025
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark bill on Monday that regulates AI companion chatbots, making it the first state in the nation to require AI chatbot operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions.
The law, SB 243, is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from some of the harms associated with AI companion chatbot use. It holds companies – from the big…
Salesforce announced Monday the latest version of its AI agent platform as the company looks to lure enterprises to its AI software in an increasingly crowded market.
The customer relations manager giant unveiled the new platform, branded Agentforce 360, ahead of its annual…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri pushes back on MrBeast’s AI fears but admits society will have to adjust
October 13, 2025
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said AI will change who can be creative, as the new tools and technology will give people who couldn’t be creators before the ability to produce content at a certain quality and scale. However, he also admitted that bad actors will use the…
Earlier this week, OpenAI launched a way for developers to build apps within ChatGPT, allowing users to prompt the assistant to perform tasks and answer questions directly related to the participating apps.
Several companies have launched their interactive experiences, including Spotify, allowing listeners to ask ChatGPT to create playlists, recommend songs, and more.
When you mention Spotify in…
The world is just not quite ready for humanoids yet
October 13, 2025
Famed roboticist and iRobot founder Rodney Brooks has sounded the alarm on a humanoid robot investment bubble. He’s not the only one.
In a recent essay, Brooks calls out the billions of venture dollars being poured into humanoid robot companies like Figure. His take…
India has kicked off a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT leading the rollout and integrations with Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude in development, as the South Asian nation becomes the next major…
Google on Thursday launched a comprehensive AI platform for businesses called Gemini Enterprise, the latest effort by the Alphabet-owned company to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI in the fast-growing market for workplace AI tools.
As part of the launch, Google announced several new Gemini Enterprise customers, including the software design firm Figma; the buy now, pay later company Klarna; the…
