Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.

Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests
Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home assistant’s ability to interpret and act on requests. The upgrade will also make Gemini for Home better […]

Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would apply to people in the US who purchased all models of the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 15 Pro between June 10th, 2024 and […]

Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models

With Apple’s latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.

Companies Can Win With AI

Misaligned incentives, poor workflow fit, and weak buy-in drive enterprise AI failures despite widespread adoption.

Enterprises Need To Be Careful Before They Go All-In On Anthropic

Anthropic builds powerful AI models, but the company’s fear tactics, security incidents and service outages should make enterprises wary of relying on it directly.

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company’s monopoly: no one is coming for us

Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML’s CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of his Beverly Hills hotel Tuesday morning ahead of his appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference. Dress…

Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI
Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI

Xbox is “winding down Copilot on mobile” and “will stop development of Copilot on console,” new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma’s reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft’s CoreAI team – where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox – to the Xbox […]

Apple could let you pick a favorite AI model in iOS 27
Apple could let you pick a favorite AI model in iOS 27

The next update to Apple’s operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third-party chatbots to power its AI features system-wide in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, all expected for this fall. In addition to running […]

Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor

According to Pennsylvania’s filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.