Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company announced on Thursday that Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered conversational feature it launched in March, is gaining agentic capabilities that let it order food, book hotels, and find event ticket…
The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and four rivals published Agent Plugins, an open standard that lets a single agent extension work across competing products…
DeepSeek spent early 2025 proving that a good AI model did not have to cost a fortune. This week it has been busy proving it can spend one. In a handful of days, the Chinese lab reopened a multi-billion-dollar fundraising. It took a stake in the countr…
You can read Nvidia’s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A cluster of listings posted late last month gives it away. The pitch is not caution about what AI m…
Vangrid, a Dutch startup developing a decentralised spatial intelligence network to be deployed on smartphones, has raised $9 million in seed funding.Vangrid’s goal is to make high-fidelity spatial d…
The floating data centre has moved from concept to contract. Samsung Heavy Industries and the Dallas firm Mousterian have signed an engineering deal to design one, The Register reported. The first project is bound for Texas. The pitch is a neat answer …
Microsoft’s AI business looks like a triumph. Its shares jumped after earnings last week, and the AI unit is growing fast. A new filing shows how much of that rests on a single partner. Microsoft booked $24.1 billion in revenue from OpenAI during the y…
Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls reindustrialization. The figure is a statement in it…
WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $25…
The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an “unprecedented cybersecurity incident” recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.