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Source: Live Mint Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is joining religious-oriented tech firm Gloo as its head of technology and executive chairman. The company offers technology tools to Christian churches and other faith groups. At Boulder, Colorado-based Gloo, Gelsinger will help the firm develop AI tools such as virtual assistants and chatbots. Gelsinger’s job at…
Source: The Verge Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice. I don’t think I need to really introduce Splice, actually — I just need to play this clip: If you exist on planet Earth, you know that as the guitar loop from Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” which is an inescapable pop…
Source: Live Mint What if your next business partner wasn’t a human, but an AI agent that could handle operations, make data-driven decisions, and help scale your company in record time? Sounds futuristic? Not anymore. In the heart of India’s bustling startup ecosystem, a quiet yet radical transformation is underway. Artificial Intelligence, once a distant…
Source: Live Mint Tencent Holdings Ltd. unveiled an upgraded AI reasoning model, the latest bid by China’s most valuable company to compete for leadership in the country’s crowded artificial intelligence field. The Shenzhen-based company rolled out the latest iteration of Hunyuan T1, which debuted last month in its chatbot app Yuanbao. T1 operates similarly to…
Source: The Verge Google has started rolling out new AI features to Gemini Live that let it “see” your screen or through your smartphone camera and answer questions about either in real-time, Google spokesperson Alex Joseph has confirmed in an email to The Verge. The features come nearly a year after Google first demonstrated the…
Source: The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 76, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry if your bracket’s busted, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I have been shirking most of my responsibilities to…
Source: The Verge Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects “inappropriate bot behavior,” the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers…
Source: The Verge Google’s Gemini app now lets you generate Audio Overviews based on Deep Research. That means you can turn the in-depth reports generated by Gemini into a conversational podcast featuring two AI “hosts.” The feature should be even more helpful for Deep Research, Google’s “agentic” AI feature that lets you call upon Gemini…
Source: The Verge “Perplexity is singularly positioned to rebuild the TikTok algorithm without creating a monopoly, combining world-class technical capabilities with Little Tech independence,” the company wrote. They claim they’re uniquely positioned to do this “without creating a monopoly,” unlike potential acquisitions by competitors or investor consortiums that might maintain ByteDance’s influence. The plan includes:…
Source: Live Mint AI company Anthropic has rolled out a web search function for its assistant, Claude, enabling it to pull real-time information from the internet. The feature, currently in preview for paid users in the United States, is designed to improve response accuracy on topics requiring recent data. Anthropic states that the search function…
