Notion unveils Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client for Gmail that seamlessly integrates with its workflow platform, offering AI-assisted email organization, drafting, scheduling, and search capabilities, aiming to revolutionize email productivity with a highly customizable experience.
In a strategic move, Intel is spinning off its Altera FPGA unit into an independent company by selling a 51% stake for $8.75 billion to Silver Lake, enabling Intel to streamline operations while allowing Altera to invest in emerging AI markets like edge computing and robotics.
Mira Murati, ex-CTO of OpenAI, aims to raise an unprecedented $2 billion seed round for her ambitious AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, focused on customizable, multimodal, and safe AI systems amidst soaring AI funding.
Hugging Face, an AI company known for its open-source language models, has acquired Pollen Robotics, a French startup developing affordable humanoid robots, with plans to sell Pollen's Reachy 2 robot and enable developers to enhance its capabilities, bringing advanced robotics into homes.
The US military is embracing generative AI for intelligence tasks like translation and analysis, utilizing tools from companies like Vannevar Labs, but concerns linger about the accuracy and potential misuse of such powerful technology in sensitive military applications.
In a groundbreaking move, NATO has awarded a rapid 6-month contract to Palantir for its Maven Smart System AI platform, accelerating AI adoption to enhance battlefield intelligence, situational awareness, planning, and decision-making capabilities across NATO operations.
Meta plans to utilize public content and user interactions from EU users to train its AI models for better local language and cultural understanding, while offering an opt-out option to comply with regulations and enhance transparency.
The Creators Guild of America has introduced the CGA Rider, a groundbreaking legal document that safeguards content creators' rights, setting industry standards for timely payment, content ownership, revisions, approvals for reuse, and ensuring creators retain full rights, receive proper credit, limit revisions, access campaign analytics, and get paid within 90 …
China's tech giants are fueling an AI boom by releasing open-source models, but startups face pressure from investors prioritizing practical applications over foundational research, and US chip restrictions pose challenges that drive innovation to stay competitive.
A Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey revealed mounting economic fears among consumers, with a surge in expectations of higher unemployment, soaring inflation concerns, and diminished optimism about stock market gains, reflecting the impact of the intensifying global trade war.