Drew Perkins has been inventing computer networking technology and building startups since the dawn of the Internet age. Now he’s back as co-founder and CEO of an AI networking startup Mridu that officially comes out of stealth on Tuesday with an oversubscribed $200 million Series A round. The round was led by Socratic Partners, noted […]
Block shares rose more than 16% on Friday after the fintech company announced it would cut its workforce nearly in half as part of an overhaul to integrate artificial intelligence tools into its operations.The layoffs are the most visible signs of how the industry is dealing with the impact of AI, with Block’s CEO, technology […]
Hollywood is in an uproar against the use of AI in films, with attacks coming from all sides, such as AI actors like Tilly Norwood (there are “40 more to come,” says the maker) and AI short films from Sora and Seedance. But don’t worry! Even if AI eventually creates perfectly crafted feature films that […]
The companies will combine BGSW’s applied AI platforms, domain expertise and implementation capabilities with Sarvam’s text, speech and image models | Photo credit: Getty Images Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sarvam to develop and deploy AI solutions for India and global markets. The companies will combine BGSW’s […]
When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson started uploading a series of short clips made with Seedance 2.0 – the latest video generation model from TikTok developer ByteDance – it was hard to deny that the footage was far more impressive than what we’ve seen from other generational AI outfits. The star of the clips (a digital […]
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL; DR Oura has introduced its first proprietary AI model focused on women’s health. The feature combines doctor-reviewed research with user data to interpret cycle, fertility, pregnancy and menopause trends. It is now being rolled out in Oura Labs within Oura Advisor. Oura expands its focus on women’s health […]
Called an AI news app Particleof former Twitter engineers, can now follow the latest news on podcasts and news published on the Internet. Just ahead of the recent Android release, Particle introduced a feature called Podcast Clips, which finds the most interesting and relevant moments in many different types of podcasts and then includes these […]
Through Sharelle B. McNair February 23, 2026 Although only a few jobs have been cut as a result of the AI takeover, this has not stopped the workforce from making a choice, which is why AIRD has evolved. Researchers have written a new term for workers afraid of losing their jobs to AI: “AI replacement […]
PhonePe on Saturday launched an AI-powered natural language search tool, built using Microsoft Foundry, that allows users to navigate, pay and track transactions through the app via simple voice or text commands. “This feature allows PhonePe users to initiate and complete in-app tasks via natural language text or voice commands, increasing convenience and personalizing the […]
New Delhi’s invitation to global companies to build AI data centers in India is being read as a confident move. The logic seems obvious: AI needs computing power, it needs large data centers to function, and India has the scale and space to host it. But countries that started building large numbers of data centers […]