The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) National Board approved the tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group.
The contract on terms for the Interactive Media Agreement will now be submitted to the membership for ratification.
The new contract accomplishes important guardrails and gains around AI, including the requirement of informed…
Generative AI adoption has surged by 187% over the past two years. But at the same time, enterprise security investments focused specifically on AI risks have grown by only 43%, creating a significant gap in preparedness as AI attack surfaces rapidly expand. More than 70%…
Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence startup, announced Wednesday a sweeping expansion into AI infrastructure that positions the company as Europe’s answer to American cloud computing giants, while simultaneously unveiling new reasoning models that rival…
Unreal Editor for Fortnite’s AI character creation tool has ambitions beyond Darth Vader
June 12, 2025
Epic Games took a big step with conversational AI when it added a new version of Darth Vader in Fortnite that could speak with players. But later this year, any creator using Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) will be able to make their own AI-powered characters with the same underlying technology behind Vader. During the 2025 State of Unreal keynote, Epic revealed that a new tool in UEFN called…
Cognitive migration is not just an individual journey; it is also a collective and institutional one. As AI reshapes the terrain of thought, judgment and coordination, the very foundations of our schools, governments, corporations and civic systems are being called into…
OpenAI announced Wednesday that its business user base has surged 50% since February, reaching 3 million paying enterprise customers as the artificial intelligence company unveiled an expansive suite of new workplace tools designed to compete directly with Microsoft’s…
CISOs know precisely where their AI nightmare unfolds fastest. It’s inference, the vulnerable stage where live models meet real-world data, leaving enterprises exposed to prompt injection, data leaks, and model jailbreaks.
Databricks Ventures and Noma Security are confronting these inference-stage threats head-on. Backed by a fresh $32 million Series A round led by Ballistic Ventures and Glilot…
Solidroad just raised $6.5M to reinvent customer service with AI that coaches, not replaces
June 6, 2025
Solidroad, an artificial intelligence startup that promises to solve one of customer service’s most persistent problems, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to expand its platform that automatically trains customer service representatives and improves AI agents.
The…
Snowflake’s Openflow tackles AI’s toughest engineering challenge: Data ingestion at scale
June 4, 2025
For anyone in AI, it’s no big news that “data is the real prize.” If you have strong data foundations, your models and the applications powered by them will be right on the money.
But that’s where it gets messy. Building that foundation is no piece of cake…
A three-way partnership between AI phone support company Phonely, inference optimization platform Maitai, and chip maker Groq has achieved a breakthrough that addresses one of conversational artificial intelligence’s most persistent problems: the awkward delays that immediately signal to callers they’re talking to a machine.
The collaboration has enabled Phonely to reduce response times by…
