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Canva has overhauled its design and workspace suite as it attempts to become the ultimate centralized hub for AI-powered content creation. The platform announced its Canva AI 2.0 update today, introdu

Certinia Inc. wants to transform the professional services industry with artificial intelligence — tasking teams of AI agents to work alongside employees. The company operates a Salesforce-native clou

Mired in controversy and legal woes over concerns about its chatbots' interactions with users, particularly teens, Character.AI seems to be playing it safer with a new 'Books' mode. The new format let

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it has landed a new multiyear partnership with Churchill Downs Inc. to modernize the network infrastructure across its racing venues and casinos, with work set

Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure la

We're building AI Gateway into a unified inference layer for AI, letting developers call models from 14+ providers. New features include Workers AI binding integration and an expanded catalog with mul

OpenAI's Codex is a large language model trained on publicly available code from the internet that can understand and generate code in dozens of programming languages. It powers GitHub Copilot and can

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a 20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to 26M — For th

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. today posted first-quarter revenue and profit numbers that topped the consensus estimate. The company’s data center and consumer device chip businesses played a

Fragmented anti-trafficking efforts across the U.S. are leaving communities without the complete picture they need to protect vulnerable populations. But as AI and advanced data-driven tools mature, o

Databricks and Google Cloud have partnered to enable organizations to build and deploy data and AI solutions more efficiently. The collaboration integrates Databricks' lakehouse platform with Google C

Tool: datasette.io news preview The datasette.io website has a news section built from this news.yaml file in the underlying GitHub repository. The YAML format looks like this: - date: 2026-04-15 body

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: DeepL, best known for its text translation tools, launches DeepL Voice-to-Voice, which enables real-time spoken translation, with add-ons for services like Zoom — DeepL, a tra

Introduction Advances in AI model-powered exploitation have demonstrated that general-purpose AI models can excel at vulnerability discovery, even without being purpose-built for the task. Eventually,

This Google Research work presents guidelines for synthetic data mechanism design and provides insights into generating and evaluating synthetic data at scale. The research introduces a reasoning-driv

Expo, the developer of a popular open-source tool for building cross-platform applications, today announced that it has raised 45 million in funding. Developers often implement web application interfa

DevOps automation company DuploCloud Inc. today announced that it has completed its SOC 2 Type II audit and achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification. A SOC 2 Type II examination evaluates the design and o

Ecom-RLVE is a framework for training e-commerce conversational agents using reinforcement learning with verifiable environments that can adapt to different scenarios. The system enables agents to lea

In a surprising turn of events, the struggling sneaker company that once tried to make shoes eco-sustainable announced today that it has metamorphosed into artificial intelligence firm. The San Franci

Gemini now uses user interests and Google Photos to create personalized AI images without requiring long descriptions, allowing users to simply ask for pictures of themselves or family members. This f

Google's Personal Intelligence feature, which lets Gemini pull data from apps like Google Photos to offer responses tailored to you, can now use that data and its Nano Banana 2 image model to create i

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised 40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific — German agentic art

For many data professionals, the most daunting part of a new project isn't the complexity of the data or the sophistication of the model, it’s the 'blank slate.' Staring at an empty notebook while cre

Google LLC’s Android team is introducing new ways to build high-quality software for its mobile platform with artificial intelligence agents. Today, the company provided two new tool suites, including

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile — Google announce

Google is upgrading AI Mode in Chrome with a new feature that will allow you to open links to sources alongside your chat. Now, instead of automatically opening a new tab, clicking a source will open

Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence unit today rolled out a new text-to-speech model called Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS. Unlike its earlier, robotic predecessors, it enables users to direct the voc

Hilbert AI Co., a provider of analytics software for business-to-consumer brands, today announced that it has closed a 28 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Companies gather data about

In this post, you'll learn why probabilistic AI validation falls short in regulated industries and how Automated Reasoning checks use formal verification to deliver mathematically proven results. You'

Fiona Kelliher / MIT Technology Review: How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels — EXECUTIVE SUMMAR

IBM Quantum is leveraging quantum computing technology to advance healthcare and biology research, with the company highlighting selected finalists in their quantum-for-biology (Q4Bio) initiative. The

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Perry Nightingale, SVP of Creative AI at WPP about the workflow that cuts training time for humanoid robots from days to minutes — plus access to the open-source code

George Winslow / TV Tech: IAB and PwC: digital ad revenue hit 294.6B in 2025, up 13.9% YoY; social media advertising hit 117.7B, up 32.6%, and digital video hit 78B, up 25.4% — The 13.9% pop was drive

Radio-frequency identification devices and software company Impinj Inc. today announced an upgrade of its R700 RAIN RFID reader with a more powerful processor and expanded memory to help enterprises b

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI — Companies lik

Intel has revealed its new Core Series 3 mobile processor (codenamed Wildcat Lake), all fabricated on Intel 18A . The Core Series 3 is a value-focused counterpart to Panther Lake, which was revealed a

GPT-Rosalind is an AI model developed by OpenAI specifically designed to assist with life sciences research tasks. The model is trained to help researchers with applications such as analyzing biologic

Last week, news outlets reported that Microsoft was pausing carbon removal purchases. It was something of a bombshell. The thing is, Microsoft is the carbon removal market. The company has single-hand

Release: llm-anthropic 0.25 New model: claude-opus-4.7, which supports thinking_effort: xhigh. #66 New thinking_display and thinking_adaptive boolean options. thinking_display summarized output is cur

Lua Global Inc. today announced it raised 5.8 million in early-stage funding to build a platform that allows any team, irrespective of its technical depth, to build, deploy and manage an agentic artif

Lucasfilm released the final trailer for 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' during their presentation at CinemaCon, with the film opening in theaters on May 22. Director Jon Favreau also screened the first 1

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security,

Bloomberg: Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model — The US government is preparin

Stellantis and Microsoft announced a five-year strategic collaboration to co-develop more than 100 AI initiatives across sales, customer care and operations . Examples include intelligent recommendati

This paper was accepted at the Workshop on Navigating and Addressing Data Problems for Foundation Models (NADPFM) at ICLR 2026. Principled domain reweighting can substantially improve sample efficienc

Agentic AI orchestration has become the engine of enterprise AI success, but technology alone won’t get it there. The real differentiator is business-led execution that ties AI workflows directly to o