Voice AI consolidation heats up as Deepgram acquires Pipecat maker Daily
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.
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Google Expands AI Search Ads Globally as Core Advertising Growth Decelerates
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
Microsoft Rakes In Ten Billion Dollars From OpenAI in a Single Quarter
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.
Anthropic’s New Analytics Try to Prove AI Coding Tools Are Worth the Cost
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
Google Announces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Latest Frontier AI Model That You Can’t Use
Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.
Google AI Dodges 2020 Election Questions for US Users
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
NASA taps volunteers to tackle data floods as AI meets amateur science
So far, 2026 has seen a flood of successes for volunteers who do NASA science, exemplifying NASA’s commitment to gold-standard science—transparent, reproducible and intrinsically collaborative. The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announced that their project volunteers have now discovered most of the known brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are similar to planets. The Zooniverse platform, […]
OpenAI Faces Lawsuit After ChatGPT Coached User Off Epilepsy Medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
Delaware’s plan to let AI agents run companies triggers a federal clash
Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for "reckless" AI, US Rep. Comer says.
Bank of America Asks You Not to Hand Your Bank Login to an AI Bot
The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.
Anthropic’s IPO filing reads like a sci-fi horror novel, but the real risk is mundane
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
Disruptive Bets Ten Billion Dollars on Massive AI and Defense Payoffs
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
Frontier AI Labs Claim They Broke a Foundation of Computer Science
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery
Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.
General Compute secures 100 million dollars to back alternative AI chips
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.
Opera’s New Standard Bypasses Cloud AI
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.
Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
OpenAI Turns Coding Tools Into Personal Assistants With Dots
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo
Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.