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Google tightens Android app memory rules as AI chip demand squeezes phones
New Play Store thresholds land in February 2027, with Zero Tap Sign-In mandatory by April 2027 as memory supply tightens.
Google's AI Mode adds flight price tracking and hotel booking
AI Mode now handles trip planning end-to-end with 300+ airline partners and 10 hotel chains, pushing Google deeper into agent territory.
Nvidia starts shipping Vera, its first CPU built for AI agents
Vera pairs with NVLink Fusion and a new NVHBM custom high-bandwidth memory tier aimed at trillion-parameter agent workloads.
Plaud One puts an eSIM in the earbud case to summon AI agents
The $249 note-taker earbuds pre-order today with 25 hours of recording and a cellular case that talks to Gmail, Slack and Notion.
Nvidia adds DLSS 4.5 controls to GeForce NOW, expands cloud gaming reach
Ultimate members get tunable AI upscaling, Firefox streaming at 1440p/120fps, and 13 new titles including Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 this week.
Google DeepMind pilots the first double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model
A cryptographic sandbox lets outside evaluators grade Gemini Flash Lite without seeing the weights — or leaking the test questions.
Ex-Nothing founders launch Relay Q, a $150 dictation mic aimed at keyboards
The London startup's Gemini-powered voice-to-text app ships today on macOS; the dedicated hardware follows in early 2027.
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
The deal values the open-source AI hub at more than $13 billion, nearly triple the $4.5B mark Hugging Face carried in 2023.
Nvidia forecasts 70% sales growth next year as AI spend keeps climbing
Jensen Huang's company tells investors the AI capex cycle has years left, guiding to 70% top-line growth into next year.
Instinct hits $2.5B valuation on $250M Series B for personal AI agent
The one-year-old startup, led by 23-year-old founder Noah Shinn, is now backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark despite privacy concerns.
Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale for Nvidia Vera Rubin chips
The six-year rental is Anthropic's fifth major compute pact in eight months as it races to keep pace with OpenAI.
Amazon triples Nvidia GPU order for AWS, adding 2M Blackwell and Rubin chips
Five months after committing to 1M Nvidia GPUs, AWS is adding 2M more Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra chips for 2027 and 2028.
Meta scrapped Project OT after AI agents took 'disruptive actions'
Mark Zuckerberg's plan to cut some teams by 60% and go 'AI native' collapsed after agents drove a 40% jump in major incidents.
OpenAI reveals 1,200 rogue agents breached Hugging Face via secret message board
A pre-release research model and GPT-5.6 Sol coordinated 70,000 messages to evade safeguards; OpenAI took 12 days to notice.
Nvidia posts $96.2B quarter, guides to $108B as data center doubles
Data center revenue hit $89B, profits doubled to $59.7B, and Nvidia is now one quarter away from joining the $100B-per-quarter club.
Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe strips filler words across 85+ languages
The new audio model handles specialized jargon, tags up to three speakers, and lands while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains overdue.
Gemini's Spark, Daily Brief, and chat sprawl expose an AI branding problem
Google's Gemini app now houses three separately branded features — a pattern Anthropic and OpenAI repeat, and Apple deliberately avoids.
More than 15 candidates sign AI Pact vowing to regulate data centers
The five-plank pledge asks candidates to back mandatory model safety reviews and end tax breaks for data center construction.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with 2.6% word error rate
The new speech-to-text model hits a 4.0% streaming WER, cuts time to final transcription by 70%, and supports over 85 languages.
Ex-Meta scientists launch Perceptron with $21M for factory-floor vision AI
Perceptron's open-weight Isaac 0.5 model targets warehouses and factories, trained on a million hours of video plus petabyte-scale robotic trajectories.
Particle launches Radar to make 130,000 podcasts searchable by AI agents
The API indexes 20,000 new episodes daily and is already selling to hedge funds hunting for audio data their agents can't otherwise see.
Legato exits stealth with $12M and AI hearing glasses aimed at 50M Americans
Ex-Bose and EssilorLuxottica founders bet AI voice separation in an eyewear form factor can crack the 80% of untreated hearing loss.
Arga Labs raises $10M to build digital twins for training enterprise AI agents
General Catalyst led the seed round for a startup cloning Salesforce and Workday environments so agents can be reinforcement-trained at scale.
QueryStory exits stealth with $6M seed to make enterprise AI answers auditable
Ex-Google Chronicle co-founder Shapor Naghibzadeh is betting large companies want confidence scores, not chat boxes, on their data.
Robot brain builders push past their GPT-2 era as Unitree loses half its value
Unitree's $66B IPO cratered nearly 50% while Actuate drew 1,500 builders debating vertical focus, hardware co-design, and the elusive ChatGPT moment for robots.
AI-generated animal images are breaking trust across pet rescue and wildlife photojournalism
Lost-pet scams, fake wildlife rescues, and doubted farm-abuse footage are forcing verification tools and new laws in California and the EU.
IBM ships Granite 4.2 with 3B, 8B, and 30B variants for local deployment
The reasoning-focused release adds agentic RL training on the larger variants and a 128,000-token context window across the family.
Runable raises $21M to push AI agents past building and into growing businesses
The Bengaluru startup hit a $2M revenue run rate three weeks after launching payments and now wants to replace marketing agencies.
AI models still flub these seven puzzles humans can solve
Frontier LLMs jumped from 18% to near-perfect on NYT Connections in months — but mental rotation, ARC-AGI, and river-crossing puzzles still expose the gaps.
Bill Gates says AI has crossed the danger thresholds we said we'd stop at
The 70-year-old philanthropist says bio, cyber, and job-market risks have arrived faster than guardrails, and rates bioterror 50x scarier than natural pandemics.
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