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AT&T is experimenting with a new AI-powered assistant designed to pick up your phone calls, screen them, and decide whether they deserve your attention. The mobile carrier is rolling the feature out to a select group of customers this year, describing it as a “digital receptionist” built directly
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When Harjot Gill launched FluxNinja, an observability startup he co-founded after selling his first company Netsil to Nutanix in 2018, he didn’t expect his next big idea would emerge from watching his own engineers at work. “We had a team of remote engineers who were starting to adopt AI
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Google announced on Tuesday that it is rolling out a new experimental app for Windows designed to help users find what they need faster. The tool introduces a universal search bar that can be accessed with the Alt + Space shortcut, letting people instantly search across their computer files, installed apps,
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Microsoft is rolling out a new feature in Visual Studio Code that automatically selects the best AI model for developers using GitHub Copilot. The “auto model” function will dynamically pick between options like Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and others to deliver what Microsoft calls “optimal performance.” For free
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OpenAI announced Monday that it is rolling out GPT-5-Codex, a new version of its AI coding agent. The model introduces a more dynamic approach to “thinking time,” allowing it to spend anywhere from just a few seconds to as long as seven hours on a coding task. According to the
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Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model, marking a major leap in efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The model, developed under the Qwen3-Next architecture, is said to be 10 times more powerful yet requires only a tenth of the cost to build compared with its predecessor, according to announcements
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Replit, the fast-growing collaborative coding platform, has closed a $250 million funding round that values the company at $3 billion, according to sources familiar with the deal. The round marks a dramatic leap in valuation from its last raise in 2023, when the startup secured $100 million at a $1.
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ASML Holding, the Dutch semiconductor equipment giant, is making a bold bet on artificial intelligence by investing €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) in Paris-based startup Mistral AI. The deal, announced Tuesday, gives ASML an 11% stake in Mistral and values the two-year-old company at roughly €11.7 billion — making
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Google rolled out three major updates to its Gemini-powered products on Monday, broadening the ways users can interact with its AI ecosystem. The Gemini app now accepts audio file uploads, Search gains support for five new languages, and NotebookLM introduces flexible new report formats. Gemini App Gets Audio Support Josh
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Amazon is preparing to make a bold move into the fast-growing world of AI-powered workplace tools with a new platform called Quick Suite, according to internal documents viewed by Business Insider. The software, which is still in testing, aims to unify multiple AI agents into a single workspace experience, offering
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OpenAI is continuing its streak of acqui-hires, bringing the team behind Alex, a developer tool that integrated AI models into Apple’s Xcode suite, into its Codex division. Codex is the group within OpenAI responsible for building the company’s AI-powered coding assistant. Alex’s founder, Daniel Edrisian, confirmed the
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OpenAI has announced that its Projects feature is now available to free users of ChatGPT, marking another step in the company’s gradual expansion of premium tools to its broader user base. Originally reserved for paying subscribers, Projects let users organize their ChatGPT conversations around specific topics or tasks. While