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TechCrunch AI

Google’s answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by Canva and Adobe, but with a distinctly AI-first approach.
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TechCrunch AI

ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data

OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.
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TechCrunch AI

Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen

The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.
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TechCrunch AI

Amazon Alexa can now alert you when something new might tempt you to shop

Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send personalized alerts about product launches, tours, books, shows, and other events that could trigger a purchase.
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TechCrunch AI

AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use

AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.
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TechCrunch AI

Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families

Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.
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VentureBeat AI

Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it.That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy...
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VentureBeat AI

When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer

Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review: W...
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VentureBeat AI

Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents

Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has i...
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VentureBeat AI

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a...
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VentureBeat AI

Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will ...
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VentureBeat AI

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging...
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MIT Technology Review

Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization

For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization ...
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MIT Technology Review

The Download: engineered microbes for crops, and OpenAI’s culture problem

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops Fertilizer i...
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MIT Technology Review

How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops

Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions. Some companies hope microbes can help. A growing body of research shows that seeding the soil around a...
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MIT Technology Review

The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in whi...
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MIT Technology Review

The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio R...
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MIT Technology Review

How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should

MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done.  Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies i...
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OpenAI Blog

How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability

Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.
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OpenAI Blog

Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT

ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.
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OpenAI Blog

OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety

OpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.
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OpenAI Blog

Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure

Polimill uses OpenAI GPT models and Codex to help municipalities search and use administrative knowledge while accelerating development.
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OpenAI Blog

A milestone in expanding access to AI

ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.
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OpenAI Blog

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
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The Verge AI

John Deere launched an AI chatbot for farmers

John Deere is testing a new "JD" AI assistant that it says can help farmers make more money, with answers about best practices and historical trends that are based on their own data. It uses their "field, machine and ope...
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The Verge AI

Google Pics is like Canva, but with even more AI

Google has a new suite of creative design tools for Workspace users called Google Pics, which aims to make editing and generating "professional-grade" AI images less cumbersome for businesses. Built around Gemini and the...
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The Verge AI

Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower

Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week, following a divisive announcement in March where we likened the AI upscaling tech to a "real-time generative AI filter for video games" and "motion smoothing for video gam...
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The Verge AI

Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new policy on AI acknowledges that "responsible" use of AI can impr...
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The Verge AI

New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has t...
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The Verge AI

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Ver...
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