Lightspeed leads $23M investment in AI startup for accounting departments Stacks

A London-headquartered AI startup targeting accountancy departments, set up by a former Uber and Plaid executive, has raised $23 million in a Series A round, led by new investor Lightspeed. The Series…

China’s AI build-out forces a rapid shift to liquid cooling — massive clusters put pressure on domestic suppliers to shift cooling methods

Dozens of Chinese companies have announced plans to expand into liquid-cooling systems as demand surges to prevent AI racks from overheating.

Plato closes $14.5M round to scale AI tools for distributors

Plato, an AI-based operating system forwholesale distributors, has closed a $14.5 million seed funding round led byAtomico, with participation from existing investors including Cherry Ventures.The dis…

Agaton raises $10 million to expand its AI platform for sales teams

Stockholm-based Agaton, an agentic AIplatform that uses voice analysis to help enterprise sales teams identify andact on opportunities in customer conversations, has emerged from stealth andraised $10…

Flinn secures $20M to develop AI tools for product lifecycle management in medtech and pharma

Vienna-basedFlinn, a provider of AI-powered software designed to automate regulatory andquality processes in medtech, has raised $20 million in additional funding. Theround was led by HV Capital, with…

Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than six months

Amazon said Blue Jay’s core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects.

Google Gemini adds Lyria 3, an AI model that can create music with words and photos

Lyria 3 can take your words, photos, and videos, and turn them into a custom 30-second track with lyrics in tow. It’s free to use and available within the Gemini. tool picker.
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Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math. As LLMs improve, people are asking them to play more…

Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from AI so far despite billions in investment, survey suggests — 6,000 executives also reveal 1/3 of leaders use AI, but only for 90 minutes a week

A survey of 6,000 executives reveals a significant productivity disconnect, where 80% of firms report no measurable improvement to operations with the use of AI, while a third of senior leaders only use the technology them…

The robots who predict the future
The robots who predict the future

To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us hunt, avoid being hunted, plant crops, forge social bonds, and in general survive in a world that does not…