Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a persistent Slack integration that lets teams summon an AI agent by typing "@Claude," available in beta for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers. The feature kee…
ElevenLabs released an officially licensed AI replica of actor Michael Caine's voice to narrate a new audiobook of Homer's The Odyssey, ahead of Christopher Nolan's film adaptation. The project highli…
Syndio acquired Embrace.ai, an agentic AI company specializing in enterprise workflow automation, to accelerate its pay intelligence platform. The full Embrace.ai team, including founders Derek Butts …
Ireland's Children's Rights Alliance warned of a "very real danger" to children from unregulated AI as the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill came before the Dail, citing 54,603 reports of sus…
The Five Eyes cyber security agencies issued urgent guidance warning that rapid advances in frontier AI are accelerating cyber threats and shrinking the window between vulnerability discovery and expl…
OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing to go public, potentially converting nearly $1 trillion in combined private valuations into stock-market windfalls for employees. Employees face timing, tax, and liq…
Indonesia plans to integrate artificial intelligence into its largest state initiatives, starting with a $15bn free-meal program for 83 million children and pregnant women, according to The Next Web. …
European retail association EuroCommerce has asked EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt some AI-generated advertisements from the EU AI Act's transparency rules, arguing that ads not intended to mi…
AXT, Inc., which manufactures indium phosphide substrate wafers through its subsidiary Beijing Tongmei Xtal Technology Co., Ltd., has a $100 million backlog and funded capacity doubling, but faces a r…
ArcelorMittal announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate industrial automation across its global manufacturing operations. The partnership will integrate cloud, A…
Vladimir Feinberg, a distinguished engineer leading pretraining at Google DeepMind, published a blog post advising applicants to top AI labs to "work like a dog" and cultivate intent, mathematical mat…
Chinese manufacturer Narwal Robotics launched a robot vacuum in the US in April with a dual-camera vision system and AI cleaning platform, topping Amazon US' new releases ranking and entering the top …
SonicLAB released SSNN, a live audio processor plugin embedding a spiking neural network with 960 neurons across 32 layers, driving eight synthesis engines in real time. The plugin is available for Wi…
Spreedly senior product manager for AI Judd Howard told PYMNTS that artificial intelligence is compressing the distance between differentiation and commoditization in payments, shifting competitive ad…
Startup founder and IIT alumnus Devaansh Bhandari sparked debate on X over student reliance on AI tools like ChatGPT for coding, arguing that debugging without AI builds critical thinking. The viral p…
Tencent has begun internal testing of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded in WeChat that accepts text and voice input to execute tasks across the app's mini-program ecosystem, with a public rollout targ…
Synvo AI, an NTU spinout, raised US$1 million in seed funding from Fuel Ventures Asia to commercialize its Enterprise Memory Layer, which enables AI to retain and reason across enterprise data. The co…
Pixel Planet CEO Shanelle Yuan said high-fidelity simulation is essential to address a shortfall in robot training data, with the physical world producing only 500,000 hours of high-quality robotic in…
Micheal Lanham released the second edition of "AI Agents in Action," a practical guide to building agentic systems covering personas, tools, memory, and multi-agent patterns. The 392-page book, publis…
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival closed on June 21 with debut directors winning top honors, including Zhong Kaifeng's "Atlantic Rhapsody" taking the Golden Goblet for best feature. The fe…