Browsing Category
AI
109 posts
Artificial intelligence news, AI products, model updates, automation, AI safety, regulation, infrastructure, and the practical impact of AI on software, security, work, and everyday technology.
Facebook Creator Studio Returns as an AI App for Creator Workflows
Meta is bringing back Facebook Creator Studio as a standalone AI companion app for creators. The test turns audience analytics, comment triage, and posting advice into a conversational workflow instead of another dashboard.
Dragos EmberAI Puts AI Security Workflows Inside the Control Room
Dragos launched EmberAI, an OT-native AI assistant for industrial cybersecurity teams. The product matters because critical infrastructure defenders need AI that understands plant assets, threat groups, vulnerable equipment, and operational impact rather than treating OT security like ordinary IT alert triage.
Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program After AI Training Data Exposure
Meta paused its Model Capability Initiative after reports that employee activity data collected for AI training was exposed internally. The episode shows why training AI agents on real workplace behavior needs security controls as strict as the systems those agents may eventually operate.
NASA’s Space Medical AI Test Moves Care From Cloud to Edge
NASA researchers are testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant with Red Hat’s RamaLama so astronaut medical guidance can run locally when a spacecraft cannot depend on Earth or the cloud. The work turns space medicine into a serious edge AI test case.
OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip Puts Inference Costs at the Center of the AI Race
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom inference accelerator for large language models. The chip is less about replacing Nvidia overnight than controlling the cost, latency, and supply of the compute that runs products like ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
Qualcomm’s Modular Deal Is a $3.9 Billion Bet on AI Software Portability
Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular in a nearly $4 billion stock deal, giving its AI data center push a software layer built around portable model deployment. The move is aimed at a practical bottleneck in AI infrastructure: making models run efficiently across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and custom accelerators without locking developers into one hardware stack.
Google Home Cameras Start Using Clothing and Sounds to Explain What Happened
Google's June 23 Google Home update lets Gemini camera features use additional cues such as clothing when a face is not visible and add sounds like alarms, footsteps, glass breaking, and barking to event descriptions. The change makes Nest camera alerts more useful, but it also makes privacy and subscription settings more important.
Google’s AI Talent Losses Put Coding and Science Roadmaps Under Pressure
Google DeepMind lost Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper to Anthropic in the same week. The moves matter because AI labs are competing for researchers who can steer coding agents, scientific AI, and frontier model strategy, not just write papers.
ByteDance Seedance 2.5 Pushes AI Video Toward Production Workflows
ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 is expected in early July with 30-second native 4K video, up to 50 multimodal reference inputs, and tighter editing controls. The launch matters less as a demo-war milestone than as a sign that AI video tools are being built for repeatable production workflows.
Claude Tag Turns Slack Channels Into Shared AI Workspaces
Anthropic’s Claude Tag puts a shared, permission-scoped Claude inside Slack channels for Claude Enterprise and Team customers. The launch moves workplace AI from private chatbot sessions toward visible, persistent agents that can remember channel context, use approved tools, and work asynchronously.