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NYSE Content Update: AI Company Vast Data Announces $30 Billion Valuation
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China's DeepSeek launches new AI model
China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
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Upstart’s new millennial CEO, a Yale dropout, thinks AI can make every American 10% richer
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AutoFlight completes first 2-ton-class eVTOL tea delivery in China
AutoFlight has successfully completed China’s first 2-ton-class eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft) dedicated spring tea transport trial in Guizhou, a mountainous province in western China. The trial deployed AutoFlight’s CarryAll (V2000CG) – a fully autonomous, unmanned eVTOL aircraft – to transport fresh spring tea between Anshun and Guiyang, two Guizhou cities approximately 120 […]
Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets
Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants.
Alphabet Expands AI Partnerships to Boost Cloud Growth
New deals with chipmakers and software firms target enterprise AI demand.
Victory Giant Surges in Debut After Biggest Hong Kong Listing This Year
(Bloomberg) -- Victory Giant Technology Huizhou Co., a Chinese supplier to Nvidia Corp., surged 50% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising $2.6 billion in the city’s largest listing in seven months.Most Read from BloombergUS Reduces Marijuana Restrictions in Lift to Ailing IndustryAnthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized UsersMeta Tells Staff It Will Cut 10% of Jobs in Push for EfficiencyInside Alex Cooper’s Unwell: Tears, Screaming and Employees Looking for the ExitMicro
AI security leaders gather in Washington as risks mount—and Mythos raises the stakes
Security experts debate best practices to secure AI systems in a world they admit "favors attackers."
Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia
Google's newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its cloud — for now.
OpenAI's new Trusted Access program gives Microsoft its most capable models for cyber defense
OpenAI and Microsoft are joining forces to shore up cybersecurity as AI models become a bigger threat. The debate started with Anthropic's Mythos model, which is designed to hunt down security flaws on its own. The article OpenAI's new Trusted Access program gives Microsoft its most capable models for cyber defense appeared first on The Decoder.
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as "vibe working," the Agent Mode is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience in Office that Microsoft has been trying to sell to businesses. "When we first shipped Copilot, foundation models were not powerful enough to use Copilot to command the applications," admits Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. "This meant Copilot was a passive partner in documents: it could answer questions but missed the mark when it was asked to take action on the canvas direc … Read the full story at The Verge.
AI and Teaching – The Brave New World
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Hands on with X’s new AI-powered custom feeds
X's AI-powered custom timelines are replacing Communities, with Grok-curated feeds...and new ad slots.
Google updates Workspace to make AI your new office intern
Google has introduced a host of new automated functions into Workspace, all of which are driven by Workspace Intelligence, its new AI system.
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Amazon shares rise as Meta taps AWS Graviton for major AI expansion
Investing.com -- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares rose 2% Friday morning after Meta announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores for agentic AI workloads.
Infor launches new AI orchestration tools as research highlights scaling challenges
Infor has introduced new capabilities across its AI portfolio, alongside research suggesting many businesses are still struggling to scale artificial intelligence beyond pilot stages. The company’s April release includes updates to its Infor Velocity Suite and the limited availability of an enhanced Infor Agentic Orchestrator. The announcement is supported by findings from the Infor Enterprise […]
Kollmorgen launches layout analysis tool to improve mobile robot performance
Kollmorgen has introduced a new software tool designed to help companies plan and optimize the movement of automated vehicles and mobile robots inside factories and warehouses. Called the NDC Layout Assistant, the tool is aimed at improving how routes are designed for automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots. (NDC stands for Navigation and Driving […]
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘superapp’
OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories.
China's AI darling DeepSeek previews new model adapted for Huawei chip technology
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup whose low-cost model stunned the world last year, on Friday launched a preview of its highly awaited new model adapted for Huawei chip technology, underlining China's growing prowess in the sector. The close collaboration with Huawei on the model, the V4, contrasts with DeepSeek's past reliance on Nvidia's chips, though the startup did not disclose which processors it used to train its latest model. The pro version of the new model outperforms other open-source models in world-knowledge benchmarks, trailing only Google's Gemini-Pro-3.1, which is a closed-source model, DeepSeek said.
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Talking to AI agents is one thing — what about when they talk to each other? New startup BAND debuts 'universal orchestrator'
For the past eighteen months, the corporate world has been obsessed with the "builder" phase of the generative AI revolution. Enterprises have raced to deploy autonomous agents to handle everything from customer support to complex codebase refactoring. However, as these digital workers proliferate, a new, more structural problem has emerged: fragmentation. Agents built on LangChain cannot easily hand off tasks to those built on CrewAI; a Salesforce-embedded agent has no native way to coordinate with a custom-built Python script running on a private cloud. Today, a new startup, BAND (also known as Thenvoi AI Ltd.) exited stealth with $17 million in Seed funding to provide the "interaction infrastructure" necessary to turn these isolated tools into a unified, collaborative workforce. "In order for agents to become real players in the global economy, they need ways to communicate, just like humans do," said co-founder and CEO Arick Goomanovsky in an interview with VentureBeat, continui
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 amid a shift to rapid-fire AI updates
Just weeks after its last update, OpenAI is back with GPT-5.5—promising more intuitive, agentic performance and fewer hallucinations for business users.
OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding
OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing research online, making spreadsheets and documents, and doing that work across different tools. "Instead of carefully managing every step, you can give GPT-5.5 a messy, multi-part task and trust it to plan, use tools, check its work, navigate through ambiguity, and keep going," according to OpenAI. The company also notes that … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI launches Privacy Filter, an open source, on-device data sanitization model that removes personal information from enterprise datasets
In a significant shift toward local-first privacy infrastructure, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, a specialized open-source model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) before it ever reaches a cloud-based server. Launched today on AI code sharing community Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, the tool addresses a growing industry bottleneck: the risk of sensitive data "leaking" into training sets or being exposed during high-throughput inference. By providing a 1.5-billion-parameter model that can run on a standard laptop or directly in a web browser, the company is effectively handing developers a "privacy-by-design" toolkit that functions as a sophisticated, context-aware digital shredder. Though OpenAI was founded with a focus on open source models such as this, the company shifted during the ChatGPT era to providing more proprietary ("closed source") models available only through its website, apps, and API — only to return to op
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price
OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, an agentic model designed to work through complex tasks autonomously by switching between multiple tools. The article OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price appeared first on The Decoder.
Google doesn't pay the Nvidia tax. Its new TPUs explain why
Every frontier AI lab right now is rationing two things: electricity and compute. Most of them buy their compute for model training from the same supplier, at the steep gross margins that have turned Nvidia into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google does not. On Tuesday night, inside a private gathering at F1 Plaza in Las Vegas, Google previewed its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units. The pitch: two custom silicon designs shipping later this year, each purpose-built for a different half of the modern AI workload. TPU 8t targets training for frontier models, and TPU 8i targets the low-latency, memory-hungry world of agentic inference and real-time sampling. Amin Vahdat, Google's SVP and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure (pictured above left), used his time onstage to make a point that matters more to enterprise buyers than any individual spec: Google designs every layer of its AI stack end-to-end, and that vertical integration is starting to show up i
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Star Robotics unveils new security robot with improved autonomy and navigation
Star Robotics has launched Watchbot 2, the latest version of its autonomous robot designed for security surveillance and inspection. The new system was introduced during a livestreamed event on April 16, with the company positioning it as a significant upgrade aimed at improving reliability and performance in real-world environments such as data centers, power facilities, […]
Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications
Pudu plans to use the funding to develop its embodied AI, grow its product portfolio, and expand in global markets beyond service robots. The post Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications appeared first on The Robot Report.
New DJI Drones Launch Globally, But Not in the U.S
Court filing highlights FCC restrictions as new products debut without U.S. availability Drone giant DJI has introduced new consumer drones, including the Lito X1 and Lito 1, aimed at entry-level users. Early coverage suggests strong appeal for new pilots. However, U.S. consumers will not see these models on store shelves. The absence is not due […] The post New DJI Drones Launch Globally, But Not in the U.S. appeared first on DRONELIFE.