Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company Pony.ai announced on Tuesday its plan to triple the size of its robotaxi fleet by the end of next year. This move signals an acceleration in the company’s growth and its future ambitions. The company…
Spotify is planning to raise subscription prices in the United States in the first quarter of next year. This move would mark the streaming service’s first price increase in the US since July of 2024. The company has recently raised…
Speechify has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension, including voice typing and a voice assistant that answers your questions. In the…
India has granted legal status to millions of gig and platform workers under its newly implemented labor laws. This marks a milestone for the country’s delivery, ride-hailing, and e-commerce workforce. However, with benefits still unclear and platforms beginning to assess…
Google has partnered with Accel to find and fund India’s earliest-stage AI startups. This marks a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Google AI Futures Fund, which launched earlier this year. Accel and Google announced a partnership to jointly invest up to…
Amazon Web Services is making a significant new investment in infrastructure designed to boost artificial intelligence capabilities for United States government organizations. The company announced it is investing fifty billion dollars to build high-performance computing infrastructure purposefully built for the…
AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human well-being or just maximize for engagement. A new benchmark called HumaneBench seeks to fill that…
OpenAI’s new social app Sora launched with a controversial feature called Cameo, which allows users to create deepfakes of themselves or others with their permission. The feature had a difficult rollout, which involved the estate of Martin Luther King Jr.…
When people see it, they say, ‘that’s it? It’s so simple.’ That is how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes how he thinks people will react to seeing the company’s forthcoming AI hardware device for the first time. The device is…
Tesla may have celebrated a regulatory win in Europe a bit too soon. Tesla claimed in a weekend social media post that the Dutch regulator RDW was set to approve the use of its driver assistance system, known as Full…
