Uber unveils Cart Assistant, an AI-powered feature that instantly builds grocery baskets by scanning text lists or photos, automatically checking availability and pricing while personalizing recommendations based on purchase history to streamline shopping from idea to checkout.
AI video company Runway secures $315 million in Series E funding at a $5.3 billion valuation from investors including General Atlantic, Nvidia, and Adobe to develop revolutionary 'world models' technology that can perceive and interact with the physical world.
Six of xAI's twelve founding team members abandon ship as Elon Musk's AI company faces mounting crises with its Grok chatbot malfunctioning and generating inappropriate deepfake content, threatening the startup's IPO prospects and competitive position against OpenAI.
Gather AI secures $40 million Series B funding to expand its 'curious' AI-powered drones and forklift cameras that autonomously scan warehouse inventory, detect misplaced stock, and identify safety issues using Bayesian techniques and neural networks in the growing embodied AI robotics market.
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.0, a groundbreaking AI video model that creates cinematic-quality videos from text prompts, sparking massive stock surges across Chinese media companies with some hitting daily price limits as the technology democratizes professional video production.
Waymo launches revolutionary AI system that generates hyper-realistic driving simulations of rare scenarios like natural disasters and animal encounters, allowing engineers to test autonomous vehicles in dangerous situations impossible to replicate safely in real-world conditions.
NVIDIA Nemotron RAG revolutionizes enterprise AI by using GPU-accelerated processing to extract structured data from complex PDFs, including tables and charts, while delivering grounded answers with precise citations through advanced multimodal embedding and reranking models.
GitHub launches Continuous AI, a revolutionary system that deploys intelligent background agents to automate complex development tasks like documentation checks and dependency management through natural-language reasoning, while maintaining safety through read-only permissions and human oversight.
EPFL scientists breakthrough 'error recycling' method teaches AI to learn from its own mistakes, enabling unlimited-length video generation that maintains quality for minutes instead of the previous 30-second limit without requiring extra computing power.
University of Maine researchers discover AI chatbots perpetuate outdated stereotypes of Neenderthals as primitive ape-like beings, ignoring decades of modern scientific research that reveals their sophisticated capabilities, with over 80% of AI-generated content failing to reflect current scholarly understanding.