Tutor Raises $34 Million to Teach Warehouse Robots

Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered robots for warehouse work, has raised $34 million in new funding. The company will use the new capital to speed

ByteDance Launches Doubao Real-Time AI Voice Assistant for Phones

The company behind TikTok is rolling out a smartphone AI assistant that behaves less like an app and more like a secretary

DeepSeek ‘Integrates Thinking’ Into New AI Models

DeepSeek has debuted two new versions of an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) model. “DeepSeek-V3.2 is our first model to integrate thinking

Tariffs? Customs? FML. AI’s chance to revolutionize logistics

Supply chain chaos in recent years put a spotlight on everything from port backups to last-mile delays, spurring a wave of startup activity (and significant funding) across the board. Some segments are packed with well-capitalized players, but others still have plenty of whitespace.  The land of logistics is very large and very complicated. Logistics is…

New agentic capabilities in AWS Transform enable rapid modernization of any code or application

Customers can accelerate the reduction of their legacy tech debt and shift valuable resources toward innovation.

FDA offers staff ‘agentic AI’ to support pre-market reviews, administrative tasks

The FDA is offering staff a broad set of agentic AI tools despite concerns that the technology can behave unpredictably

Investors Renew Funding for Core AI Capabilities

A new wave of funding rounds across the artificial intelligence (AI) startup ecosystem is signaling that investors are continuing to place big bets on

Forrester Analyst Takes For Digital Content in 2026

Forrester's analysts speculate on the trends in digital content for 2026 as businesses continue to invest in and expect business value from generative AI.

John Giannandrea leaving Apple following AI strategy miss

Apple has announced that John Giannandrea, the company’s Machine Learning and AI Strategy boss, is retiring from the company. The...

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI

An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

From cloud-native to AI-native: Why your infrastructure must be rebuilt for intelligence

To keep up, companies need to rebuild for AI — using GPUs, vector databases and smarter MLOps — so IT can finally become a driver of real innovation, not just upkeep.

The State of AI: welcome to the economic singularity

This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market.

At NeurIPS, NVIDIA Advances Open Model Development for Digital and Physical AI

NVIDIA releases new AI tools for speech, safety and autonomous driving — including NVIDIA DRIVE Alpamayo-R1, the world’s first open industry-scale reasoning vision language action model for mobility — and a new independent benchmark recognizes the openness and transparency of NVIDIA Nemotron models and datasets.

Why Your Company Needs a Chief Data, Analytics, and AI Officer

Who should be in charge of data, analytics, and AI? While there are many possible divisions of responsibility and reporting structures, a combined role—the CDAIO (Chief Data, Analytics, and AI Officer)—will best prepare organizations as they plan for AI going forward. To succeed, this role needs a clear mandate that includes owning AI strategy, preparing for a new class of risks, developing the AI tech stack, ensuring the company’s data is ready for AI, creating an AI ready culture, developing talent and partnerships, and generating significant ROI on AI investments. Given the emphasis on business value creation, in most cases...

OSTP’s Misguided Effort to Deregulate AI

With growing concern about unregulated AI, OSTP is asking precisely the wrong questions, Ankit Khosla, Alice Fisher and Christabel Randolph write.

Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack

The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble.

Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday

On Black Friday, Amazon sessions that resulted in a sale were up 100% in the U.S. when the AI chatbot Rufus was used. They only increased by 20% when Rufus wasn't used.

Expedia Guess The Guest: A Conversation on Hospitality, Dead Internet Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Stupidity

California utilities try AI to combat costly wildfire liabilities

Massive Wildfire Liabilities Push Utilities to Use AI to Stop Blazes

Runway rolls out new video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark

Gen 4.5, a new AI model that allows users to generate high-definition videos based on written prompts.

More Than 20 Million Americans’ Work Can Be Replaced with Today’s AI, MIT Study Says

A new study from MIT estimates that 11.7 percent of the American workforce could be replaced with today's AI systems.

Amazon and Visa Team to Boost Agentic Commerce

Visa and Amazon Web Services want to help developers and enterprises deploy agentic AI commerce projects. To that end, the companies announced Monday

Amazon Connect Gets Agentic AI Boost As AWS Pushes To Regain Market Share

AWS signals a competitive posture in the CCaaS market with new agentic AI capabilities for Amazon Connect ahead of AWS re:Invent 2025. Can it beat competitors?

AI could double the US economy’s growth rate over the next decade, says Anthropic

A new study found that Claude reduces the time work-related tasks take by an average of 80% - with some important caveats.