Uncanny Valley is back! This week, senior writer Kate Knibbs joins Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger to discuss the two incidents that have…
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Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race |
For an AI assistant to become truly useful, it first has to know a lot about you. Ollie, a personal assistant for everyday life, is…
'We're not doing 30 bets a year': Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z |
It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when…
The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech
The UK government has laid out a $1.47 billion plan to shake its dependence on foreign-made artificial intelligence hardware. Under the measures, announced Monday, the…
Voice AI in India is hard. Wispr Flow is betting on it anyway. |
India’s internet users already rely heavily on voice notes, voice search, and multilingual messaging. Turning those habits into a scalable AI business, however, remains difficult…
VCs are betting billions on AI’s next wave, so why is OpenAI killing Sora?
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman wasoffered $26 millionfrom an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure,…
Rogue agents and shadow AI: Why VCs are betting big on AI security |
What happens when an AI agent decides the best way to complete a task is to blackmail you? That’s not a hypothetical. According to Barmak…
Toyota keeps betting on hybrid vehicles in the US |
In Brief Posted: 10:13 AM PST · November 18, 2025 Toyota said on Tuesday it will invest $912 million in five U.S. factories to expand…
Why Cohere's ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race |
Die Wissenschaft für das Zeitalter der KI neu konzipieren und umgestalten , /PRNewswire/ — TetraScience, das Unternehmen für wissenschaftliche Daten und KI, startete heute sein…
Ready or not, enterprises are betting on AI |
This has been a big week for AI companies signing enterprise deals, with Zendesk unveiling new AI agents that are supposed to be able to…