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Google Nabs Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI

Google DeepMind is hiring the CEO and several top engineers from Hume AI, a startup working on emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, as part of a new licensing agreement, WIRED has learned.Financial details...

The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think

The US and China are, by many measures, archrivals in the field of artificial intelligence, with companies racing to outdo each other on algorithms, models, and specialized silicon. And yet, the world’s...

Your First Humanoid Robot Coworker Will Probably Be Chinese

The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that’s in front of me seems, quite honestly, a bit drunk. It leaps from one leg to the other, waving its arms. After 30 seconds or so it...

AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’

Vlad Ionescu and Ariel Herbert-Voss, cofounders of the cybersecurity startup RunSybil, were momentarily confused when their AI tool, Sybil, alerted them to a weakness in a customer’s systems last November.Sybil uses a...

AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions

Even the smartest artificial intelligence models are essentially copycats. They learn either by consuming examples of human work or by trying to solve problems that have been set for them by human...

Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors

Google DeepMind is teaming up with Boston Dynamics to give its humanoid robots the intelligence required to navigate unfamiliar environments and identify and manipulate objects—precisely the kinds of capabilities needed to perform...

So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen

On a drizzly and windswept afternoon this summer, I visited the headquarters of Rokid, a startup developing smart glasses in Hangzhou, China. As I chatted with engineers, their words were swiftly translated...

Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3

Nvidia has made a fortune supplying chips to companies working on artificial intelligence, but today the chipmaker took a step toward becoming a more serious model maker itself by releasing a series...

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