AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee—AI adoption isn’t playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio

Amazon’s Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor’s mouth with “human-dubbed” audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to “additional titles” in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it […]

Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund.

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

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Figure AI Commits $3.5 Billion To Nscale For Up To 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs

Figure commits $3.5B to Nscale for AI compute and up to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs, betting billions on training the models behind its humanoid robots.

Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before the…

Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.

Students who use AI generally score worse at school
Students who use AI generally score worse at school

Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don’t, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially among students taught to critically assess how […]

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Tesla Opens Cybercab Fleet To Businesses As NHTSA Audits Paperwork

Tesla is courting businesses to buy Cybercab fleets as NHTSA audits how the steering-wheel-free robotaxi was certified for U.S. roads.

Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’
Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’

A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence “could kill all humans” by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build “superhuman systems” they cannot control. In a post on […]