
Tech Meme - 2 hours 55 min ago
Kate Park / TechCrunch : Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A — Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into drug discovery as pharmaceutical and biotech companies look for ways …...

Tech Meme - 3 hours 10 min ago
Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg : NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others — Proxima, a biotech startup using artificial intelligence to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised $80 million in seed funding …...

The Independent - 4 hours 30 min ago
James Lawless also said the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which is currently being introduced, would help regulate the industry...

Newser - 6 hours 55 min ago
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology, the AP reports. "Very soon...

NPR - 8 hours 48 min ago
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology.

Tech Meme - 11 hours 24 min ago
Bloomberg : Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 — GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. shares rose in its Hong Kong debut, underscoring growing investor interest in Chinese stocks related to artificial intelligence.

NBC News - 13 hours 8 min ago
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, plans to invest $20 billion to build a data center called MACROHARDRR in Mississippi. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz reports on the project, as local residents have raised concerns about potential environmental and noise impacts.

Newser - 13 hours 55 min ago
Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that's become more like a rite of passage during the artificial intelligence arms race. Alphabet reached the threshold just four months after Google dodged the US government's...

Nature - 15 hours 25 min ago
Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet.

ABC News - 17 hours 19 min ago
Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that's become more like a rite of passage amid an artificial intelligence arms race...

Chicago Tribune - 17 hours 22 min ago
Meta plans to cut about 10% of the employees in its Reality Labs division who work on products including the metaverse, as the company shifts priorities to build next-generation artificial intelligence.

Tech Meme - 18 hours 42 min ago
New York Times : Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds — The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta's work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.

The Next Web - 19 hours 29 min ago
For the past few years, artificial intelligence has been discussed almost exclusively in terms of models. Bigger models, faster models, smarter models. More recently, the focus shifted to agents, systems capable of planning, reasoning, and acting autonomously. Yet the real leap in usefulness does not happen at the model level, nor at the agent level. It happens one layer above, at the level of Skills. If models represent intelligence and agents represent coordination, Skills are where AI becomes...

The Hill - 19 hours 31 min ago
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday ripped her old colleague, former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), for "cashing in" by representing crypto, artificial intelligence (AI) and other wealthy corporate interests since leaving the Senate at the beginning of 2025. Warren accused Sinema of protecting wealthy industries during her final years in the Senate before "cashing...

ABC News - 19 hours 47 min ago
Apple will lean on Google to help finish its bungled attempts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology's latest craze...

Fox News - 19 hours 55 min ago
Bipartisan push for permitting reform gains momentum as parties unite on energy infrastructure needs to power artificial intelligence revolution.

NY Post - 20 hours 31 min ago
Transit officials are probing proposals from tech companies on how best to use artificial intelligence to patrol subway cars and buses in real-time through thousands of video feeds, documents reveal.

Newser - 20 hours 33 min ago
Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice chairman of the tech giant. Powell McCormick previously served on Meta's board of directors where, the company notes, she was "deeply engaged" in accelerating its artificial intelligence push across...

Sky News - 20 hours 43 min ago
A troop of monkeys have spent days running wild in a US city and artificial intelligence is complicating efforts to catch them.

NY Post - 21 hours 28 min ago
Apple is partnering with Google to power its upcoming artificial intelligence features including a long-delayed AI overhaul of its Siri voice assistant set to launch later this year, CEO Tim Cook's company revealed Monday.

Tech Meme - 23 hours 36 min ago
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times : Alphabet hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, becoming the fourth Big Tech company to reach the milestone, after its stock rose 6% in the past month — Latest Gemini artificial intelligence model has fuelled investor optimism over competitiveness with OpenAI's ChatGPT...