Ford and Renault team up on cheaper EVs in a ‘fight for our lives’
The automakers will work together to bring two Ford-branded EVs to European dealerships in 2028.
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Google Photos launches new video editing tools
Google Photos' new update helps make editing video reels in the app quicker, such as new templates that already add music and text to clips.
NASA and USPS stop using Canoo EVs despite CEO’s pledged support
Canoo's CEO bought the bankrupt startup's assets in April and told the court his "principal motivation" was supporting these programs.
Capital Evolution: The New American Economy
My partner Seth Levine has an important new book out today titled Capital Evolution: The New American Economy.I saw it last night at the Boulder Bookstore in the New Hardback Non-Fiction section (bottom left in the photo below) and am going to the launch event at Composition Shop in Longmont. Join us, say hello, and buy some books!I love the tagline from the flyleaf: “The future of capitalism isn’t left or right – it’s forward.“In our over-politicized world, Seth an
OpenAI, Anthropic and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era
Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are backing the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation, donating MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md to standardize AI agents, boost interoperability, and curb proprietary fragmentation.
Fairphone refreshes its good-looking, repairable headphones
Fairphone updates its repairable over-the-ear headphones with new drivers.
Facebook redesign focuses on friends, photos, Marketplace, and more
Meta's Facebook redesign elevates Marketplace, refreshes profiles, and aims to win back Gen Z users.
Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+
Amazon upgrades Alexa+ with new shopping tools, turning Echo screens into hubs for orders, deals, and gift buying.
Google’s first AI glasses expected next year
Google is working on various types of AI-powered glasses — one model is designed for screen-free assistance, using built-in speakers, microphones, and cameras to allow the user to communicate with Gemini and take photos. The other model has an in-lens display — which is only visible to the person wearing the glasses — that can show turn-by-turn directions or closed captioning.
EU launches antitrust probe into Google’s AI search tools
The European Commission is investigating Google over its AI summaries.
Microsoft to invest $17.5B in India by 2029 as AI race accelerates
The latest is Microsoft's largest investment in Asia.
Databricks' OfficeQA uncovers disconnect: AI agents ace abstract tests but stall at 45% on enterprise docs
There is no shortage of AI benchmarks in the market today, with popular options likeHumanity's Last Exam(HLE), ARC-AGI-2 and GDPval, among numerous others.AI agents excel at solving abstract math problems and passing PhD-level exams that most benchmarks are based on, but Databricks has a question for the enterprise: Can they actually handle the document-heavy work most enterprises need them to do?The answer, according to new research from the data and AI platform company, is sobering. Even
X Blocks EU Ads Account After €120m Fine, Escalating Clash Between Elon Musk and Brussels
X shut down the European Commission’s ad account after a €120M DSA fine, sparking a tense clash over transparency, platform ...
Elon Musk: 5 childhood confessions the Tesla CEO made and how they shaped the world’s boldest innovator
In fact, he started life as a quiet, book-obsessed kid who spent more time daydreaming about rockets and galaxies than ...
Elon Musk suggests this underrated AI business could be a big driver of SpaceX’s valuation
With SpaceX’s valuation expected to skyrocket, its CEO largely credits satellites, rocket launches — and the company’s plan ...
Elon Musk sniggers over 'causing trouble' with Stephen Miller's wife
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk giggled like a schoolgirl about “causing trouble” during an interview with Stephen Miller’s ...
Brand-context AI: The missing requirement for marketing AI
Presented by BlueOceanAI has become a central part of how marketing teams work, but the results often fall short. Models can generate content at scale and summarize information in seconds, yet the outputs are not always aligned with the brand, the audience, or the company’s strategic goals. The problem is not capability. The problem is the absence of context.The bottleneck is no longer computational power. It is contextual intelligence.Generative AI is powerful, but it doesn’t understand the nua
Tracking every decision, dollar and delay: The new process intelligence engine driving public-sector progress
Presented by CelonisThe State of Oklahoma discovered its blind spots the hard way. In April 2023, a legislative report revealed its agencies had spent $3 billion without proper oversight. Janet Morrow, Director of Oklahoma's Risk, Assessment and Compliance Division, set out to track thousands of monthly transactions across dozens of disconnected systems.The Sooner State became the first U.S. state to apply process intelligence (PI) technology for procurement oversight. The transformation, M
Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning
Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-efficiency deployment. The release includes two models in "large" and "small" sizes: GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inferenceGLM-4.6V-Flash (9B), a smaller model of only 9 billion parameters designed for low-latency, local applicationsRe
FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman
Zuckerman, who used to run the stalkerware apps SpyFone and SpyTrac, claimed the ban is hurting his unrelated business.