Michael Gerstenhaber, a product VP at Google Cloud, focuses primarily on Vertex, the company’s unified platform for deploying enterprise AI. This role provides him a high-level perspective on how companies are actually using AI models and what remains to be…
Uber is making a bold pitch to autonomous vehicle makers: they have the solution. The ride-hailing and food delivery company has launched a new division called Uber Autonomous Solutions. This unit is designed to handle all the operational tasks associated…
Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies of creating more than 24,000 fake accounts to interact with its Claude AI model. The goal was to improve their own models through a technique called distillation. The companies named are DeepSeek, Moonshot…
OpenAI is strengthening partnerships with four major consulting firms as the company aims to expand its enterprise business in 2026. The AI lab announced the “Frontier Alliance” on Monday, signaling its willingness to try new approaches to drive meaningful adoption…
Brian Merchant reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. This rising public anger stems from the license plate readers aiding U.S. immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is an Atlanta-based surveillance startup valued at…
Understanding why a deep learning model behaves the way it does is a major challenge. Whether it’s the odd political outputs from xAI’s Grok, ChatGPT’s tendency toward sycophancy, or the common issue of hallucinations, figuring out what happens inside a…
In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had breached the network of Pulse Secure, one of its subsidiaries that provided VPN appliances to dozens of companies and government agencies around the world. According to new reporting, the…
Finnish quantum computing company IQM has announced its intention to go public through a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. This transaction values the company at approximately $1.8 billion. With this move, IQM will join a growing number of quantum…
Spotify is expanding access to its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature. After initial tests in New Zealand and a recent launch in the U.S. and Canada, the tool is now rolling out to Premium subscribers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia,…
A news app called Particle, created by former Twitter engineers, can now track breaking news from podcasts as well as traditional web articles. Following its recent Android launch, the app introduced a feature named Podcast Clips. This feature identifies the…
