[ad_1] Waymo appears to be testing adding Google’s Gemini AI chatbot to its robotaxis in an effort to integrate an AI assistant that would guide riders and answer their questions, according to findings from researcher Jane Manchun Wong. “While digging through the code of Waymo’s mobile app, I discovered the full system prompt for the […]

[ad_1] The excitement for the EEuropean startup market was hard to ignore at the annual Slush conference in Helsinki last month. But the actual data on the state of the region’s risk market shows a different reality. The result: The European market has not yet recovered from the global venture capital reset that took place […]

[ad_1] There’s a lot of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem currently costing hospitals money is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time are lost every day, not because of the operations themselves, but because of everything in between, from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork about […]

[ad_1] Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy banning companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) announced this on Wednesday said In its ongoing investigation into whether Meta abused its dominant position in the market, it had found sufficient […]

[ad_1] Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far these have mainly been limited to text. Digital avatar generation company Lemon slice is working to add a video layer to those chats with a new distribution model that can create digital avatars from a single image. The […]

[ad_1] A group of writers, including Theranos whistleblower and ‘Bad Blood’ author John Carreyrou, are filing a lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity, accusing the companies of training their models on pirated copies of their books. If this sounds familiar, that’s because another group of authors has already filed a class action […]

[ad_1] Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution. After running for the past six years Sunshinea photo sharing and contact management startup with little success, has the legendary technology leader Closed the company will launch Dazzle, a new startup focused on building the next generation of […]

[ad_1] Amazon is expanding its AI-powered digital assistant Alexa+ with new capabilities. The company announced Thursday that it is adding four new integrations to the service that the assistant can work with Enter, Expedia.com, SquareAnd Yelp from 2026. These additions will allow customers to book hotels, get quotes for home services and schedule salon appointments, […]

[ad_1] Even as OpenAI works to harden it Atlas AI browser against cyber attacks, the company admits quick injectionsa type of attack that manipulates AI agents into following malicious instructions often hidden in web pages or emails is a risk that won’t go away anytime soon. This raises questions about how safely AI agents can […]

[ad_1] Google parent company Alphabet has agreed to acquire Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy developer $4.75 billion in cash plus the assumption of the company’s debts. The acquisition, announced Monday, will help Alphabet expand its power generation capacity alongside new data centers without having to rely on local utilities that are struggling […]