Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup’s CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you’ve purchased. The new “Expert Intelligence” feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their […]
Unitree achieved $50 billion valuation. Wang Xingxing’s personal stake now valued at $15 billion. Meituan, HongShan, Shunwei, Matrix Partners & CITIC all got billions.
Some of the world’s largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.
Nvidia’s reported $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face targets the model distribution layer where developers choose what to run and where future compute demand forms.
“AI slop” now has a friend. “Meat proxy” is a new way to describe too much reliance on AI content.

On Nvidia’s earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had “achieved AGI,” one of the tech industry’s ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as “senseless.” He’s right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus […]
The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it’s moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.
Richard Socher’s The Eureka Machine argues agentic superintelligence could transform science through simulation, integration, experimentation, and discovery.
Nvidia’s $279 billion supply commitments show how far the company is betting on long‑term AI demand as revenue surges and data-center growth accelerates.