Google snags team behind AI voice startup Hume AI

Google has hired the CEO and top engineer behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens.

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry’s power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry’s power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test as Claude improves

The issue of AI cheating is already wreaking havoc at schools and universities around the world, so it’s ironic that AI labs are having to deal with it too. But Anthropic is also uniquely well-equipped to deal with the problem.

Blue Origin’s satellite internet network TeraWave will move data at 6 Tbps

The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX’s Starlink service.

Zipline charts drone delivery expansion with $600M in new funding

That geographic expansion in the United States has fueled Zipline’s delivery numbers. In 2024, the company completed 1 million drone deliveries to customers; this week, Zipline said it had surpassed 2 million deliveries.

Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference

Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

Anthropic revises Claude’s ‘Constitution,’ and hints at chatbot consciousness

The newly revised document offers a roadmap for what Anthropic says is a safer and more helpful chatbot experience.

Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store

The boost in downloads comes as Danish consumers have been organizing a grassroots boycott of American-made products, which also included canceling their U.S. vacations and ditching their subscriptions to U.S.-based streaming services, like Netflix.

Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI

The feature, now public, lets you create to-do’s and action items by speaking naturally to the app’s AI.