Technology

Shane Legg, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis are leading a forum for research and debate on AI safety, governance and the economy.

Clicking an ad can open a conversation with a business, alongside new tools for creating ads and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.

The early-access model returns structured values and probabilities for tasks such as classification, routing and scoring.

Fast Company reports that the startup places modular servers at solar farms to run AI inference on otherwise unused electricity.

Yoshua Bengio's AI safety nonprofit plans a Berlin office and a Canadian computing partnership, BetaKit reports.

The partnership brings Mistral models to the browser's AI beta, starting in France and North America.

The rice-farming project pairs changes to irrigation with crushed volcanic rock, targeting benefits on two different timelines.

Ursula von der Leyen outlined guardian-controlled accounts for ages 13 to 15 and safer designs for all minors.

Creators can share reusable AI image workflows that run directly on the Figma Design canvas.

Cohere says the unified company will operate globally under its name and grow to more than 1,000 employees on both sides of the Atlantic.

OpenAI announced an advanced AI system produced a proof and Lean formalization showing smooth 3D Navier-Stokes solutions can develop singularities in finite time, addressing part of a Millennium Prize Problem. The effort involved ~10,000 agents over ~88 hours with estimated ~$15M compute cost.

TechCrunch says the investors will judge contenders live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

TechCrunch reports that co-founder and CEO Matthew de Jonge spent six years building Fortell, motivated by his grandparents’ reluctance to wear hearing aids.

TechCrunch reports that a new server lets agents such as Claude and ChatGPT control connected devices using natural language.

TechCrunch says the features are initially being released to Pro and Max plan subscribers.

Business Today says the upgraded voice assistant can switch between Hindi and English and handle more complex requests.

CNET pitched the TV for football viewing, linking to an Amazon listing that highlights 4K resolution, Dolby Vision IQ and local dimming.

CNET reports that Blizzard declared a willingness to take risks, from a genre shift to postapocalypse.

CNET describes the phone’s Tensor G6 processor as more efficient and its camera software as improved. Magic Capture is among its new Gemini Intelligence features, the outlet says.

Barron’s links the dividend increase directly to the company’s AI spending.