Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday.
The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational access to expensive tools while preventing discount fraud.
AWS unveils Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform for building enterprise AI agents with open source frameworks and tools
July 17, 2025
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes AI agents will change how we all work and interact with information, and that enterprises need a platform that allows them to build and deploy agents at scale — all in one place.
Today at its New York Summit, AWS unveiled…
Anthropic announced today it is rolling out a comprehensive analytics dashboard for its Claude Code AI programming assistant, addressing one of the most pressing concerns for enterprise technology leaders: understanding whether their investments in AI coding tools are…
LEAP SDK: Revolutionizing Mobile AI Development
July 16, 2025
Liquid AI, the startup formed by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers to develop novel AI model architectures beyond the widely-used “Transformers“, today announced the release of LEAP aka the “Liquid Edge AI Platform,” a cross-platform software development kit (SDK) designed to make it easier for developers to integrate small language models (SLMs) directly into…
OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’
July 16, 2025
Scientists from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta have abandoned their fierce corporate rivalry to issue a joint warning about artificial intelligence safety. More than 40 researchers across these competing companies published a research paper today arguing that a…
Google study shows LLMs abandon correct answers under pressure, threatening multi-turn AI systems
July 16, 2025
A new study by researchers at Google DeepMind and University College London reveals how large language models (LLMs) form, maintain and lose confidence in their answers. The findings reveal striking similarities between the cognitive biases of LLMs and humans, while also…
A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models
July 15, 2025
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Virginia have developed a new model architecture that could lead to more robust AI systems with more powerful reasoning capabilities.
Called an energy-based transformer (EBT), the architecture shows a natural ability to use inference-time scaling to solve complex problems. For the enterprise, this could translate into…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday that directly challenges proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic with particularly strong performance on coding and autonomous…
Yesterday’s emerging tech is now essential to business success – and the next wave is coming fast. To maintain competitive advantage through the next five years, which innovations must forward-thinking companies prioritize right now?
At VentureBeat’s Transform…
Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action
July 14, 2025
Have you ever thought about what it is like to use a voice assistant when your own voice does not match what the system expects? AI is not just reshaping how we hear the world; it is transforming who gets to be heard. In the age of conversational AI, accessibility has become a crucial benchmark for innovation. Voice assistants, transcription tools and audio-enabled interfaces are everywhere. One…
