Waymo's self-driving car boasts a superhuman perception system that combines lidar, cameras, and radar data to accurately detect and characterize objects, interpret nuances, infer occluded areas, and recognize its own limitations, enabling safe autonomous driving.
Amazon is pushing into generative AI with new conversational shopping and health assistants, including 'Interests AI' for product recommendations and a chatbot offering medical advice and wellness guidance.
Waymo One, the pioneering fully autonomous ride-hailing service, plans to bring its cutting-edge technology to Washington, D.C. by 2026, expanding its presence after successful deployments in major U.S. cities like San Francisco and Phoenix.
Extropic's pioneering thermodynamic chips leverage energy fluctuations for ultra-efficient probabilistic computing, promising a 3-4 order magnitude boost in efficiency over current hardware and a potential revolution in energy-efficient AI and simulations.
Krisp, a company known for its noise-cancellation technology, has unveiled an AI tool that can convert a speaker's accent to American English in real-time, supporting over 17 Indian dialects initially and plans to add more accents like Filipino, offering a free 60-minute daily usage or a $15/month unlimited plan.
Otter unveils AI meeting assistants that actively participate through voice interaction, joining meetings, accessing data, scheduling follow-ups, and drafting emails, initially on Zoom with plans to expand to other virtual platforms.
The General Services Administration (GSA) unveiled a groundbreaking AI tool for internal staff usage, complete with chat and API capabilities, seeking employee input to enhance its functionality before offering it as a cutting-edge shared service to other federal agencies.
Intensifying the global AI race, Chinese startup DeepSeek unveiled a powerful upgrade to its language model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, rivaling OpenAI and Anthropic with enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities while offering cost advantages.
Alarming surge of 140% in AI-powered cyberattacks exploiting browser vulnerabilities, with 130% rise in zero-hour phishing, necessitating robust browser security solutions to fortify cloud browsing and zero trust access against evolving AI-driven threats bypassing traditional defenses.
Google unveils Gemini 2.5, a groundbreaking AI model that 'thinks' before answering, with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental being its most intelligent multimodal reasoning AI yet, aiming to outpace rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI race.