Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and…
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Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after US Air Force deal |
In Brief Posted: 11:05 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 Autonomous military aircraft maker Shield AI has raised $1.5 billion in Series G funding at…
Apple made strides with iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions exposed to spyware attacks |
The common assumption among iPhone security experts has been that finding vulnerabilities and developing exploits for iOS was difficult, requiring a lot of time, resources,…
Google is launching Search Live globally |
9:37 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 Google announced on Thursday that it’s expanding its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, globally to all languages…
ByteDance's new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut |
OpenAI may be dialing back its efforts in the video generation market with the shutdown of its Sora app, but ByteDance on Thursday confirmed that…
WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations |
6:00 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updates, including one that generates AI-powered suggested replies…
Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription |
6:30 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech…
Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation |
French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use…
A little-known Croatian startup is coming for the robotaxi market with help from Uber |
Mate Rimac, the founder of Croatian electric vehicle maker Rimac Group, started working on electric robotaxis seven years ago. Now part of his vision is…
Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns |
Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing a novel called “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.…