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Microsoft's new Phi-4 AI models deliver breakthrough performance in a compact size, processing text, images and speech simultaneously while requiring less computing power than competitors.

In rearchitecting the upgraded Alexa voice assistant, Amazon turned to model mixing to bring agentic capabilities to devices.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted that someday we'll have a billion cars on the road and they will all be robotic cars.

Hugging Face's new FastRTC library enables Python developers to build real-time voice and video AI applications in just a few lines of code.

Nvidia reported that its revenue for the third fiscal quarter ended October 27 was $35.1 billion, up 17% from the previous quarter and up 94% from a year ago.

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs showed how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in an interoperable way in wireless networks.

IBM is bringing the power of conditional reasoning to its open source Granite 3.2 LLM, in an effort to solve real enterprise AI challenges.

Escape.ai debuted the beta of its Neo Cinema content distribution platform and creator marketplace to spur emerging forms of entertainment.

Hume emphasized its Octave TTS pricing is around half the cost of the competing offering from AI voice creation startup ElevenLabs.

As investment bank BNY plans to upgrade its AI tool Eliza, it's looking forward to creating smart recommendation AI agents.

Google’s decision to provide a free version with significantly higher usage limits positions Gemini Code Assist as a compelling choice.

Photoshop mobile includes Firefly-powered gen AI features like Generative Fill and Generative Expand and has mobile-adjusted touch targets.

Qualcomm unveiled its new Qualcomm Dragonwing brand for its products in the industrial, embedded IoT, enterprise and networking markets. Don McGuire, chief marketing officer at Qualcomm, said the designer of semiconductor chips already has its Snapdragon brand, but now it is breaking out another brand in Dragonwing that represents a significant step in its journey […]

Quantum Machines has raised $170 million in funding to accelerate quantum computing and improve its advanced quantum control solutions.

Prompt AI, a smart home and visual intelligence research and technology company, has launched Seemour, a visual intelligence platform.

Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI with groundbreaking 'thinking time' controls, challenging OpenAI and DeepSeek while reshaping enterprise AI with unified reasoning capabilities and new coding tools.

Intel is launching its new Intel Xeon 6 processors with performance-cores, offering better performance across data center workloads and up to two times higher performance in AI processing. The company has new Xeon 6 processors for network and edge applications with built-in Intel vRANBoost deliver up to 2.4 times the capacity for radio access network […]

The backlash over Grok 3 raises questions about whether xAI has sacrificed public safety and transparency for personal image control.

How MongoDB's Voyage AI is helping enterprises move more mission critical operations into production with gen AI.

A new wave of AI-powered browser-use agents is emerging, promising to transform how enterprises interact with the web. These agents, including OpenAI's Operator and Convergence's Proxy, can autonomously navigate websites, retrieve information, and even complete transactions - but early testing reveals significant gaps between promise and performance between these leaders. While consumer examples like ordering pizza or buying game tickets have grabbed headlines, the...