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Source: Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, which is working on AI that understands and mimics emotion in audio and debuted in December with a $40M seed led by a16z (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-8 AI

OpenAI says GPT-5 is its first “unified” AI model and combines the reasoning abilities of its o-series of models with the fast responses of its GPT series (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-8 AI

India sees a 107% rise in gen AI course enrolments, ranks 89th globally: Coursera Report (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-8 India AI

SignalFire: as the AI talent race explodes, Anthropic is hiring engineers 2.68x faster than losing them, above OpenAI's 2.18x, Meta's 2.07x, and Google's 1.17x (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

Meet Jules, Google's AI coding agent that could change software development workflows (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

PCIe 8.0 Announced With 256 GT/s For AI Workloads (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-8-7 AI

Index Ventures is set to receive $11B+ in proceeds after Figma's IPO, Google's Wiz acquisition, and Meta's investment in Scale AI, which paid out shareholders (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Google IPO AI

AI's energy demands are driving fossil fuel investment, as energy needs for AI training and data centers are poorly matched with the patterns of solar and wind (www.ft.com)
2025-8-7 Energy AI Solar

Microsoft imagines a future Windows with AI agents replacing keyboard and mouse (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft AI

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Google rejects claims of AI in search hurting web traffic, says quality clicks on the rise (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

An in-depth look at the rise of relationships between humans and AI companion chatbots on apps like Nomi, coinciding with a loneliness epidemic in the US (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-7 AI chatbot

Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Taiwan AI

As a percentage of US GDP, AI datacenter capex has passed peak telecom spending during the dot-com bubble and is likely ~20% of the peak spending on railroads (paulkedrosky.com)
2025-8-7 AI GDP

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source AI is vital for US innovation and the US risks losing the AI race to China if it falls behind in open source (venturebeat.com)
2025-8-7 China AI

How the AI data center building boom could cause a financial crisis akin to 2008, including the rising use of short-term debt financing via private credit funds (www.noahpinion.blog)
2025-8-7 AI

An interview with Strava CEO Michael Martin on Athlete Intelligence, the premium-only AI “coach” debuted in 2024 that has alienated experienced users, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Interview AI Intelligence

Simulated markets study: without explicit instruction, AI trading bots collude to fix prices, hoard profits, and sideline human traders, a regulatory challenge (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Disney is grappling with using AI in its filmmaking process while protecting its characters against it, plus legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI coarsening how people remember one another (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Xiaomi releases MiDashengLM-7B, an AI voice model based on its foundation voice model deployed in cars and smart home devices, under an Apache 2.0 license (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI Xiaomi

How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 AI San Francisco

Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI “core infrastructure business” is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft AI 4Q

Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Startup AI San Francisco

Connecticut-based Amphenol plans to acquire North Carolina-based CommScope's broadband connectivity and cable unit for ~$10.5B, including debt, amid the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Elon Musk says that xAI will bring back Vine's video archive, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine feature, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 AI Elon Musk

Search-engine optimization feels dated as marketers look to generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on tricking AI chatbots rather than Google (nymag.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI chatbot

Google signs a deal with two power utilities to lower its power use by pausing non-essential AI workloads during demand surges or weather-based grid disruptions (www.theregister.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

A Parkland shooting victim's parents created an AI version of their late son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta (www.rollingstone.com)
2025-8-7 Interview AI

Source: Reflection AI, founded by ex-Google researchers and which makes the AI agent Asimov, has raised most of the $1B+ it is seeking to build open-source LLMs (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

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