Meta’s Muse Ember matches Claude Haiku at a third of the cost per task
Meta has released Muse Ember, its smallest and cheapest AI model so far, the company announced on Monday. Meta built it for the small jobs AI agents repeat all day. These include …
Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns
Anthropic says the new models "show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision," as well as in communicating more clearly with users.
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, and cuts Fable’s price
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, the company announced on Monday. They are new versions of its most powerful AI models. Both are faster than the 5.1 …
AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months
Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation.
France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banks
France's foreign minister blamed Iran for launching at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated and freezer units across France and wider Europe.
Apple’s CEO presses Federighi to speed up AI, Bloomberg reports
Apple chief executive John Ternus has pushed software chief Craig Federighi to speed up Apple’s AI plans, Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg on Sunday. Ternus wants Apple to move …
Google lets developers add Maps to AI Studio apps for free
Google AI Studio can now set up Google Maps Platform for apps built by prompting Gemini, with a free demo key allowing 100 calls a day per API. Production apps still need a paid C…
Nominal raises $240M at $3B, tripling its value since March
Nominal, whose software helps engineers test and analyse hardware such as aircraft, satellites and robots, has raised $240M in a Series C round at a $3B valuation. Lightspeed Vent…
Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny
Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s…
Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
Adobe becomes Disney’s AI partner to build models on its characters
Adobe is now Disney’s “Official AI Innovation Partner” under a multi-year deal to build custom AI models trained on Disney’s characters, settings and styles. It extends work with …
Uber adds parking reservations to its app, with robotaxis in mind
Uber launched parking reservations in 15 US cities, using the network of SpotHero, which it agreed to buy in February. The feature targets commuters, but Uber says parking spots n…
Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis
Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service.
Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines
Anthropic bought billions of dollars worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer's remorse.
Wayve will train its self-driving AI on CoreWeave’s cloud
London self-driving startup Wayve will train, test and simulate its AI Driver on CoreWeave’s Nvidia Blackwell cloud under a multi-year deal. Terms were not disclosed. CoreWeave sh…
Meta expands AI age checks to move more Instagram teens into Teen Accounts
Meta is expanding its AI age-detection technology to Instagram users worldwide, aiming to identify more teenage accounts and automatically place them under its Teen Account protec…
Honda will spend $3B on a new Ohio car plant built around hybrids
Honda will invest $3B in a new Ohio assembly plant, its first new US vehicle plant since 2008, opening in 2029 with capacity for 240,000 mostly hybrid vehicles a year. It follows …
Medium’s new TK app brings AI assistance directly into the writing process
Medium's new writing app embraces AI-assisted writing, despite growing controversy over the technology's role in publishing.
Exclusive: Skyfall AI launches Steve-001 to run 3 businesses it acquired
During a routine website update at one of Skyfall AI’s businesses, two software agents got stuck passing the same task back and forth. A growth agent assigned the deployment to an…
Skyways starts building Skyreach, a cargo drone that flies 1,300 miles
Skyways has started production of Skyreach, an autonomous cargo drone that takes off vertically, with customer flights from December. It can fly over 1,300 miles with 10 pounds of…
Nvidia’s GR00T 2 teaches robots delicate skills from human video
Nvidia unveiled GR00T 2, an open AI model that helps robots learn delicate hand skills, trained partly on 100,000 hours of human video. It reached 95% average success with five de…
Meta expands Instagram’s AI age-guessing tech globally
Meta says it will use its AI technology to look for clues about people it suspects to be teenagers — even if they use an adult birthday.
Waymo robotaxis kept illegally passing school buses after software fix, feds say
The update to Waymo's self-driving system was rolled out nearly a year ago.
Google reportedly adds two TPU variants for secure and long-context AI
Google is introducing two new versions of its in-house AI chips, known as tensor processing units (TPUs), Bloomberg News reported on Monday. The chips are called the TPU 8tx and t…