<p>Google DeepMind has released a new language model called Gemini Robotics On-Device that can run tasks locally on robots without an internet connection. </p>

<p>Eventual&#8217;s data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders&#8217; experience working on Lyft&#8217;s autonomous vehicle project. </p>

<p>Google introduced its AI mode, a Q&amp;A-style search tool, to users in India today. The company said that this tool is still in the experimental stage and users will need to opt in to it through Search Labs. Once a user has opted in, they can ask queries in English. Google didn&#8217;t specify whether it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The ChatGPT maker seems to be more than a year out from selling its first hardware device, which may not be an in-ear product whatsoever. Given what the company said in this lawsuit, it appears it is also exploring other form factors.</p>

<p>Andy Konwinski is pledging $100 million of his own money for a new kind of institute to fund researchers. It&#8217;s already backed Ion Stoica&#8217;s new lab.</p>

<p>Leaked code suggests xAI is developing an advanced file editor for Grok with spreadsheet support, signaling the company’s push to compete with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft by embedding AI copilots into productivity tools. </p>

<p>The round, which comes just four months after $300 million Series D, was co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue.</p>

<p>Alexa+ is available for free during Early Access and will later be free for Prime customers. Non-Prime users will be able to use the service for $19.99 per month after it publicly launches.</p>

<p>AllSpice&#8217;s platform sits between existing workflow software. It allows hardware teams to collaborate on the types of documents they traditionally work in — documents that don&#8217;t easily translate over Slack and email — like PCB files and electronic CAD files, both of which are used to design circuit boards. AllSpice&#8217;s platform has landed customers such as Blue Origin and Bose and just raised a $15 million Series A round. </p>

<p>Google&#8217;s adding a slew of AI features to the Chromebook Plus line, including a search and text capture tool, NotebookLM, and a tool for simplifying text.</p>

<p>OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website and YouTube page.</p>

<p>A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.</p>

<p>While LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, there’s one area that’s seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: the AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts.</p>

<p>Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major comics [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation. </p>

<p>Cluely&#8217;s new funding comes roughly two months after it raised $5.3 million in seed funding co-led by Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures.</p>

<p>Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models.</p>

<p>ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Karandeep Anand comes to Character.AI with experience running advertising products that reached billions of users on Meta&#8217;s apps.</p>

<p>Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to combat streaming fraud.</p>