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Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of DeepMind Technologies Ltd., during a panel session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The
AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos Read More »
Can we please appreciate how poor these designs are? None actually feature a cat ON a donut, and one doesn’t even have a finished face. | Image: Microsoft / The Verge (via Canva) Microsoft is giving its Paint and Notepad apps on Windows new AI capabilities for editing text and making digital illustrations. The updates
Microsoft Paint can now make AI coloring books Read More »
Blockit, an AI agent that communicates directly with other calendars, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Sequoia.
Former Sequoia partner’s new startup uses AI to negotiate your calendar for you Read More »
OpenAI has reportedly appointed Barret Zoph to lead its push into enterprise just a week after Zoph rejoined the company.
OpenAI is coming for those sweet enterprise dollars in 2026 Read More »
The five year-old-startup raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures.
Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation Read More »
The seed round values the newly formed startup at $800 million.
Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM Read More »
New research looks at how leading AI models hold up doing actual white-collar work tasks, drawn from consulting, investment banking, and law. Most models failed.
Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts. Read More »
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is pressing OpenAI about its move to bring ads to ChatGPT, and is asking several other companies whether they have similar plans. In letters to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, and xAI, Markey writes that embedding ads into AI chatbots “raises significant concerns for consumer protection, privacy,
Sen. Markey questions OpenAI about ‘deceptive advertising’ in ChatGPT Read More »
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the tech giant isn’t pressuring him to insert ads into the AI chatbot experience.
Google DeepMind CEO is ‘surprised’ OpenAI is rushing forward with ads in ChatGPT Read More »
