Microsoft introduced a new open project dubbed NLWeb at its Build 2025 conference on Monday. Short for Natural Language Web, the NLWeb project aims to build an interface to websites that support artificial intelligence (AI) models. With AI capabilities, these websites will then support natural language queries by users and provide answers for those queries.
Bloomberg: OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive’s secretive AI startup, for ~$6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI — OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal … Source link
MediaTek showcased several artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for a wide range of devices and platforms at Computex 2025 on Tuesday. The Taiwan-based chipmaker unveiled its first hybrid computing solution to offer AI capabilities on the edge, a new chipset to bring AI to in-car infotainment systems, as well as an Internet-of-things (IoT) platform to power
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Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: In April ChatGPT started to, by default, reference all past chats for more personalized responses, but this means users lose control of their prompts’ context — Last month ChatGPT got a major upgrade. As far as I can tell the closest to an official announcement was this tweet from
Google I/O 2025 kicked off at 10:30pm on Tuesday, and the company made notable announcements related to artificial intelligence (AI) features and new capabilities coming to Android XR, its new operating system for extended reality (XR) devices. While Google also showed off new Android 16 features and improvements coming to Wear OS 6 during a
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B — AI startup Mistral on Wednesday announced a new AI model focused on coding: Devstral. Source link
Amazon Prime Air service, which drops packages by drone within 60 minutes or less of being ordered, took flight a few years back. Today, the tech giant announced that it will start delivering a new range of devices through drones in select regions. Amazon has received regulatory approval to deliver new categories of devices, including iPhone
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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals’ low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others — Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting … Source
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete with Facebook before he sold the company to Mark Zuckerberg, a claim that bolsters Meta’s defense as it faces federal antitrust allegations. “We had no ambition to build Facebook-like functionality like a feed or any Facebook-like
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Emily Mason / Bloomberg: Singapore-based business banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $150M at a $6.2B valuation, up from $5.6B in October 2022, and debuts a $150M share sale — Business banking and payments firm Airwallex raised $150 million in fresh equity financing to increase its investment … Source link