General AI

  • Do we really need to explain why this is a problem? COMMENT  AI use by law enforcement to identify suspects is already problematic enough, but civil liberties groups have a new problem to worry about: the technology being employed to draft police reports.…
  • Image: Amazon Amazon is testing a new Prime Video feature that recommends groups of content using AI rather than traditional algorithms. If you’re part of the test, you’ll see new “AI Topics” tailored to your interests, like “mind-bending sci-fi,” “fantasy quests,” or “thrilling character journeys.” Each category will have shows, movies, and linear channels that […]
  • Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gemini’s integration into Google Drive is getting a little more useful. In addition to summarizing documents or answering questions about a project, the AI assistant can now generate summaries of everything inside a folder. With the feature, you can open a folder and select the new “Summarize this […]
  • General Motors pulling the plug on autonomous taxi biz hits Redmond in the wallet Microsoft is among those in the blast radius of General Motors' decision to wind up its autonomous taxi business, Cruise.…
  • Imagine a workplace where robots collaborate seamlessly with humans. That's the future we’re heading towards, thanks to collaborative robots or cobots. Cobots are revolutionizing the workplace. The global collaborative robot market is growing rapidly. According to a recent report, it was valued at around USD 1.9 billion in 2024 and is growing at a 35.2% […]
  • Amazon has recently announced its latest venture in AI: a specialized laboratory in San Francisco dedicated to developing AI agents. While current AI systems excel at processing information and generating responses, the next generation of AI needs to do something far more challenging: take meaningful action in both digital and physical spaces. Think about the […]
  • In today's digital marketing world, staying ahead is more important than ever. SEO and content marketing have always been the foundation of online success, but with the rapid technological advancements, these strategies are going through significant changes. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already leading this transformation at the center of this shift, and tools like the […]
  • The Financial Services industry (FSI) is a space where AI has long been a reality, rather than a hype-cycle pipe dream. With analytics and data science firmly embedded in areas like fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML) and risk management, the industry is about to pioneer another wave of AI-fueled capabilities, powered by generative AI-based technologies. […]
  • At its simplest, Customer Experience (CX) is fundamentally about how people engage with brands they know and trust. The quality of that interaction is critical to a company’s reputation and arguably is the second most significant driver of repeat business behind the product or service itself. The CX space has always been a playground for […]
  • Dheeraj Pandey, CEO and co-founder of DevRev, is also the former CEO and founder of Nutanix and a current board member of Adobe. Along with co-founder Manoj Agarwal, Pandey launched DevRev to transform how developers (Dev) connect with revenue-generating customers (Rev). DevRev’s mission is to embed customer-centricity into the core of product development, turning it […]
  • Florian Hillen is the Founder and  CEO of VideaHealth, an AI-powered platform designed to enhance dental care by improving diagnostic accuracy, streamlining workflows, and supporting patient outcomes with consistency and efficiency. Trusted by leading dental organizations, VideaAI integrates seamlessly with major imaging and practice management systems. It leverages a vast dataset of dental images and […]
  • Imagine this: you have built an AI app with an incredible idea, but it struggles to deliver because running large language models (LLMs) feels like trying to host a concert with a cassette player. The potential is there, but the performance? Lacking. This is where inference APIs for open LLMs come in. These services are […]
  • Vapi, founded in 2023 by CEO Jordan Dearsley and CTO Nikhil Gupta, has announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, alongside investments from Abstract Ventures, AI Grant, Y Combinator, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz. As generative voice models rapidly approach human-level interaction—often passing a “voice Turing test”—enterprises need a […]
  • Google didn’t let me take my own photos, but this is strikingly similar to the demo I saw with my own eyes. | Image: Google I demoed Google’s new Android XR platform, Samsung’s Project Moohan, and prototype smart glasses. I felt as close to Tony Stark in a controlled demo as I’ll ever be. It’s […]
  • Prompt: “King Charles III UK eating a Greggs sausage roll on the throne.” There’s a lot wrong with these results… | Image: OpenAI / The Verge The first version of OpenAI’s Sora can generate video of just about anything you throw at it — superheroes, cityscapes, animated puppies. It’s an impressive first step for the […]
  • Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge In an announcement today, Chatbot service Character.AI says it will soon be launching parental controls for teenage users, and it described safety measures it’s taken in the past few months, including a separate large language model (LLM) for users under 18. The announcement comes after press scrutiny and two […]
  • Plant identification — now powered by ChatGPT. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge I was about to okay my friend’s restaurant suggestion for lunch — an Indian place on 2nd — when Apple Intelligence swooped in with another idea. “How about The Ritz?” appeared above the keyboard as a suggested response, highlighted in that […]
  • Pretrained large-scale AI models need to 'forget' specific information for privacy and computational efficiency, but no methods exist for doing so in black-box vision-language models, where internal details are inaccessible. Now, researchers addressed this issue through a strategy based on latent context sharing, successfully getting an image classifier to forget multiple classes it was trained […]
  • Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images OpenAI worried that ChatGPT would be a dud two years ago. Now, the stakes have never been higher. Read the full story at The Verge.
  • Singer-songwriter follows Paul McCartney and others in speaking out as ministers consider opt-out systemKate Bush has called on ministers to protect artists from AI using their copyrighted works amid growing concerns from high-profile creatives and ongoing political uncertainty over how to handle the issue.The reclusive singer-songwriter has joined the actors Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Rosario […]