AI Chips: Google’s Ironwood TPU and New Axion Chips Are Now Generally Available

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google's powerful Ironwood TPU is now generally available together with new Axion CPUs, heatubg up the AI hardware arms race against Nvidia.The post AI Chips: Google’s Ironwood TPU and New Axion Chips Are Now Generally Available appeared first on WinBuzze…

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Google unleashes Ironwood TPUs, new Axion instances as AI inference demand surges

4 months / siliconangle / Kyt Dotson

Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon

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Freeda Raises €3.4 Million To Revolutionise Construction Plan Verification With AI

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Paris-based Freeda, a startup using AI to detect hidden errors in construction plans, has raised €3.4 million in funding. The round was led by Frst, with participation from Brick & Mortar Ventures. Freeda has also been selected for Station F’s Future 40, …

#ai #startups #cloud #automation #ml #investment #europe #engineering #technology

Struck Secures €2M To Streamline Building Compliance With AI

4 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Struck raises €2 million to simplify building compliance with AI

4 months / tech / Lucy Adams

Freeda Raises €3.4 Million To Revolutionise Construction Plan Verification With AI

4 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Freeda raises €3.4M to transform construction plan reviews with AI

4 months / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Freeda bags €3.4M to spot hidden construction errors in 48 hours

4 months / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Snap and Perplexity sign $400 million deal to put AI search directly in Snapchat

engadget - Snap and Perplexity AI have struck a $400 million deal that will bring the AI search engine directly to Snapchat sometime in "early 2026," the two companies announced. With the partnership, Perplexity's AI search engine will be a prominent part of Snapcha…

#ai #ml #digitaltransformation #aiethics #business #snapchat #apps #ux #technology #perplexity

Perplexity, Snap ink $400m deal to pump more AI into Snapchat

4 months / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

It finally happened: Snap surprised on earnings. A slight beat on revenue ($1.51B vs $1.49B) and DAU (477M vs 476M), but the headline is Perplexity paying $400M to put its chatbot in Snapchat. The wild part? Snap gets paid not the other way around. Surp

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Snap stock jumps on Perplexity AI partnership and better-than-expected earnings results

4 months / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Snap and Perplexity sign $400 million deal to put AI search directly in Snapchat

4 months / engadget

Snap Shares Soar on Perplexity AI Deal

4 months / wsj

Snap shares rocket 25% on strong forecast, $400 million Perplexity deal

4 months / cnbc

Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered By Google Gemini

Juli Clover / macrumors - The smarter, more capable version of Siri that Apple is developing will be powered by Google Gemini, reports Bloomberg. Apple will pay Google approximately $1 billion per year for a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model that was developed b…

#ai #ml #voice #apple #google #ios #assistant #smartphone #smarthome #gemini

Apple will reportedly use a custom version of Gemini to power the new Siri

4 months / engadget

Apple is planning to use a custom version of Google Gemini for Apple Intelligence

4 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered By Google Gemini

4 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Massive Apple Intelligence overhaul coming in iOS 27

4 months / ithinkdiff / Asma Hussain

Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts

Julian Chokkattu / wired - A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts. And it’s powered by—you guessed it—an AI chatbot.

#ai #ml #wearables #aiethics #genai #deeptech #privacy #technology #gadgets #ring

Your finger gets a secret AI assistant and is called the Stream Ring

4 months / digitaltrends

This AI smart ring lets you record voice notes with a whisper

4 months / theverge / Elissa Welle

Forget AI companions. This $249 AI ring lets you talk to yourself

4 months / fastcompany / Elissaveta M. Brandon

With This Ring, AI Could Capture Your Impromptu Thoughts

4 months / cnet / Connor Jewiss

This AI Recorder Ring Deepfakes Your Voice to Let You ‘Interface With Your Thoughts’

4 months / gizmodo / James Pero

Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts

4 months / wired / Julian Chokkattu

Google Tests A New Version Of AI Mode

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - Google is testing a new version of AI Mode responses in the wild, directly in the Google Search AI Mode interface. Google even tells the searcher, "You're giving feedback on a new version of Al Mode. Which response do you prefer?"

#ai #automation #software #ml #google #aiethics #genai #alphabet #chatgpt #technology

Google AI Mode now takes the hassle out of ticket hunting by doing it for you

4 months / digitaltrends

Google Gemini now takes the hassle out of ticket hunting by doing it for you

4 months / digitaltrends

Google AI Mode added three new agentic capabilities within AI Mode - (1) booking event tickets (2) booking beauty appointments and (3) wellness appointments - here are some screenshots from @glenngabe.bsky.social www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mo... #

4 months / bsky / @rustybrick.com / rustybrick.com

Google Tests A New Version Of AI Mode

4 months / seroundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Google AI Mode Gains 3 New Agentic Capabilities

4 months / seroundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Google expands AI Mode with new agentic booking features

4 months / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Google’s AI Mode can now go ticket hunting for you and talk through Search

4 months / digitaltrends

Next version of Apple's personal assistant Siri will be powered by Google Gemini

techspot - Bloomberg's Apple guru Mark Gurman notes that the new Siri will "lean on Google's Gemini model" for features such as AI-powered web search. Apple expects Gemini to make Siri more capable than ever, though some employees reportedly question whether iPhone …

#ml #voice #apple #google #aiethics #genai #alphabet #assistant #gemini

Apple Plans to Use a Custom Model of Google's Gemini AI to Power Siri, Report Says

4 months / cnet / Imad Khan

Apple To White-Label Google's Gemini Model for Next-Generation Siri, Report Says

4 months / slashdot / msmash

Next version of Apple's personal assistant Siri will be powered by Google Gemini

4 months / techspot

Gurman Suggests That Next-Gen Siri Will Be Powered by a White-Label Version of Google Gemini Running on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute

4 months / bloomberg / John Gruber

Apple's New Siri Will 'Lean' On A Custom Gemini Model

4 months / bgr

Google & Bing Are Indexing Grokipedia - AI Generated Wikipedia / Encyclopedia

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia launched a week ago with over 800,000 AI-generated pages, and both Google and Bing have already indexed hundreds, if not thousands, of those AI-generated pages.

#ai #ml #google #aiethics #alphabet #internet #wikipedia #contentmoderation #algorithm

In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we run through the top stories of the week and dive into why the promise of a tech-forward school in Texas with software instead of teachers fell apart. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

4 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

WIRED Roundup: Alpha School, Grokipedia, and Real Estate AI Videos

4 months / wired / Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is one of many experiments designed to replace human-generated writing with LLMs. But Ryan McGrady says its defining feature is its use of technological power to re-exert top-down authority over information and knowledge. Who is Gro

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With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again

4 months / techpolicy

Google & Bing Are Indexing Grokipedia - AI Generated Wikipedia / Encyclopedia

4 months / seroundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Suleyman thinks conscious AI is an "absurd" pursuit.

#ai #innovation #ml #microsoft #aiethics #genai #technology #research

Microsoft AI Chief Says Only Biological Beings Can Be Conscious https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/1534209/microsoft-ai-chief-says-only-biological-beings-can-be-conscious?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

4 months / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time

4 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Excuse me but DUH. gizmodo.com/microsoft-ai...

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Microsoft AI Chief Says Only Biological Beings Can Be Conscious

4 months / slashdot / msmash

Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time

4 months / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman Says AI Is Not Conscious and Never Will Be

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Deal With Amazon

msmash / slashdot - OpenAI will pay Amazon $38 billion for computing power in a seven-year deal that marks the companies' first partnership. Amazon expects all of the computing capacity negotiated as part of the agreement will be available to OpenAI by the end of next year. …

#ai #cloud #ml #saas #techpolicy #amazon #openai #investment #business

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Market Reaction (1)
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Deal Announcements

OpenAI inks $38B AI infrastructure deal with AWS

4 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

OpenAI's growth obsession continues as AWS becomes the latest megadeal in its scaling spree

4 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Deal With Amazon

4 months / wired / Will Knight

OpenAI Inks First Multi-Billion Dollar Deal With Amazon

4 months / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal

4 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

OpenAI Strikes $38 Billion Cloud Deal with Amazon to Boost AI Development

4 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon

4 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

ChatGPT to Tap Amazon’s Cloud in Major $38 Billion Deal

4 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

OpenAI and Amazon ink $38B cloud computing deal

4 months / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

OpenAI strikes $38 billion AI training deal with Amazon

4 months / theverge / Emma Roth

OpenAI in $38 Billion Deal with Amazon AWS

4 months / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Deal With Amazon

4 months / slashdot / msmash

OpenAI Inks Landmark $38 Billion AI Cloud Deal with AWS, Anthropic’s Main Partner

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

OpenAI and Amazon sign $38B deal for AI computing power

4 months / techxplore

OpenAI Signs $38B Cloud Computing Deal with Amazon

4 months / nytimes

OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time

4 months / cnbc

OpenAI, Amazon Sign $38 Billion Cloud Deal

4 months / wsj / Berber Jin

Market Reaction

Cramer: Amazon-OpenAI cloud deal puts an exclamation point on a remarkable few days

4 months / cnbc

Wider AI Trends

AGI Expected 30 Years Early

4 months / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

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OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS—the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup. www.wired.com/story/openai...

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The deal is yet another sign of the AI industry becoming increasingly entangled, with OpenAI now at the center of major partnerships with industry players including Google, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD. www.wired.com/story/openai...

4 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

One analyst says that OpenAI’s strategy is to limit its dependence on any one cloud provider. “OpenAI is deploying with pretty much everybody at this point." www.wired.com/story/openai...

4 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

But many now worry that the race to build ever-more infrastructure—and the unusual financial agreements behind the deals—are a sign of an AI bubble. www.wired.com/story/openai...

4 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth of AWS cloud infrastructure to train its models and serve its users. www.wired.com/story/openai...

4 months / bsky / @joshsternberg.com / joshsternberg.com

OpenAI Inks First Multi-Billion Dollar Deal With Amazon

4 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Deal With Amazon https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/1448202/openai-signs-38-billion-cloud-deal-with-amazon?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

4 months / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Nvidia to invest up to $1B in French AI startup Poolside as its valuation soars to $12B

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Nvidia is preparing to invest up to $1 billion in Poolside, whose valuation is set to leap to…

#ai #startups #cloud #ml #chips #nvidia #aiethics #investment #datacenter #technology

Nvidia to invest up to $1B in French AI startup Poolside as its valuation soars to $12B

4 months / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

Nvidia Reportedly Investing Up to $1B in AI Coding Startup Poolside

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Nvidia may pour $1 billion into Poolside as part of $2B mega-round

4 months / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Apple Intelligence-enhanced Siri is on track for a 2026 debut

appleinsider - Apple CEO Tim Cook says the long awaited Apple Intelligence boosted Siri will arrive on time in 2026, suggesting that Apple's delayed AI ambitions are back on track.Apple Intelligence is back on track, according to Tim CookOn Thursday, Cook told MSNBC tha…

#ai #software #mobiletech #ml #voice #apple #aiethics #ios #assistant #timcook

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4 months / bgr

Tim Cook says Siri’s delayed AI upgrade is finally on track for 2026

4 months / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Apple isn't playing the same AI capex game as the rest of the megacaps

4 months / cnbc

Tim Cook says more AIs are coming to Apple Intelligence

4 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Apple Intelligence-enhanced Siri is on track for a 2026 debut

4 months / appleinsider

Cook: More partnerships coming soon to enhance Apple Intelligence

4 months / appleinsider

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Revamped Siri on Track to Launch Next Year

4 months / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

All Other Stories

Apple Stockpiling Parts for Foldable iPhone Ahead of 2026 Launch

4 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong third-quarter results

cnbc - Meta's results raised skepticism over the payoff from its aggressive artificial intelligence spending plans and overshadowed strong results.

#ai #ml #meta #aiethics #stockmarket #earnings #investment #finance #technology

Big Tech Is Spending More Than Ever on AI and It’s Still Not Enough

4 months / wsj / Meghan Bobrowsky

q: why should investors trust this ceo to spend aggressively on his tech ambitions & dreams after metaverse flopped. (seems like metrics on engagement & users are less & less clear thru the years too.) www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/m...

4 months / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

GenAI is so cooked: www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/m...

4 months / bsky / @jeninmotion.bsky.social / jeninmotion.bsky.social

Meta to raise $25bn from bond sale amid soaring AI costs - Financial Times

4 months / google

Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong third-quarter results

4 months / cnbc

Investors are getting tired of Meta's AI spending spree

4 months / qz / Chris Morris

Meta stock tumbles on massive tax charge and ballooning AI costs

4 months / techspot

OpenAI eyes $1T IPO next year. Here’s what you need to know.

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - AI giant OpenAI is reportedly preparing for one of the most ambitious stock market debuts in history, a…

#ai #ml #openai #aiethics #stockmarket #investment #business #technology

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ChatGPT maker reportedly eyes $1 trillion IPO despite major quarterly losses arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/i...

4 months / bsky / @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social / jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

ChatGPT maker reportedly eyes $1 trillion IPO despite major quarterly losses

4 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI Mulling $1 Trillion IPO as AI Costs Compound

4 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Truces and Trillions

4 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI sets sights on trillion-dollar IPO

4 months / implicator / Maria Garcia

OpenAI eyes $1T IPO next year. Here’s what you need to know.

4 months / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

OpenAI Reportedly Planning ‘Up to $1 Trillion’ IPO as Early as Next Year

4 months / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

OpenAI's Microsoft contract negotiation is a necessary step toward a future IPO — Altman's goal is to build 30 gigawatts of compute infrastructure, valued at $1.4 trillion

4 months / tomshardware

OpenAI's next big project might be Wall Street and a $1 trillion IPO

4 months / techspot

OpenAI Completes Recapitalisation, Strengthens Microsoft Partnership Ahead of Possible IPO

4 months / medianama / Aakriti Bansal

AWS opens $11B Project Rainier data center campus built for Anthropic

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Amazon Web Services Inc. has opened a $11 billion data center campus in Indiana that will run artificial intelligence models for Anthropic PBC. CNBC reported the milestone today. The campus, which is located near Lake Michigan, was built as part of an ini…

#ai #cloud #hardware #ml #anthropic #amazon #aiethics #datacenter #semiconductor

Amazon builds an $11 billion AI data fortress in rural Indiana

4 months / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

AWS opens $11B Project Rainier data center campus built for Anthropic

4 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

AWS Stargate-smashing Rainier AI megacluster is up and running

4 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Amazon Opens$11B Indiana AI Data Center with Custom Chips for Anthropic

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Cursor ships faster agents while security researchers flag the gap

Robert Brown / implicator - Cursor's new AI agents complete coding tasks in 30 seconds—four times faster than rivals. The same day, Forrester found 45% of AI-generated code has security flaws. The velocity gap between agent speed and vulnerability detection is widening fast.

#ai #automation #software #ml #aiethics #genai #productivity #updates #algorithm #developertools

Cursor 2.0 Launches with High-Speed Composer AI Model Amid Community Praise and Skepticism

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Introducing SWE-1.5: Our Fast Agent Model

4 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Notes on Cursor 2.0 and a pelican drawn by their brand new Composer-1 coding model, which they describe as "4x faster than similarly intelligent models" simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/...

4 months / bsky / @simonwillison.net / simonwillison.net

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko is a big fan of agentic coding

4 months / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

4 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Cursor ships faster agents while security researchers flag the gap

4 months / implicator / Robert Brown

Cursor 2.0 Arrives with Multi-Agent Interface

4 months / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Cursor Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

4 months / cursor

Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman and Launches New AI Suite

Laurent Giret / thurrott - Grammarly is rebranding to Superhuman and launching the Superhuman suite, which includes its popular proof-reading tool, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new Superhuman Go AI assistant.The post Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman and Launches New AI Suite appear…

#automation #software #ml #digitaltransformation #aiethics #business #chatgpt #apps #productivity

Grammarly has rebranded to Superhuman

4 months / engadget / Matt Tate

Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman and Launches New AI Suite

4 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman

4 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Grammarly transforms into AI-enabled productivity suite with Superhuman rebrand

4 months / siliconangle / Kyt Dotson

Grammarly Is Rebranding Itself as 'Superhuman.' Here's What's Changing

4 months / cnet / Macy Meyer

Grammarly rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ launches a new AI assistant

4 months / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Nvidia to Invest $1 Billion in Nokia in AI Pact

Jack Morphet / wsj - The chip maker will have a 2.9% ownership stake in the Finnish telecommunications company.

#ai #innovation #ml #networking #nvidia #aiethics #investment #technology #telecommunications #nokia

Nvidia invests $1B in Nokia as part of new wireless networking partnership

4 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Nvidia and Nokia Form $1 Billion Communications Pact

4 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Nvidia adds AI peanut butter to Nokia's 6G network chocolate, throws in $1 billion

4 months / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Nvidia pumps $1 billion into Nokia in blockbuster 6G development deal

4 months / qz / Harriet Weber

NVIDIA Drops $1 Billion on Nokia to Build AI-Powered 6G Networks

4 months / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Nvidia makes $1BN investment in Nokia

4 months / tech / John Reynolds

Nvidia to Invest $1 Billion in Nokia in AI Pact

4 months / wsj / Jack Morphet

Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia

4 months / cnbc

Nvidia takes $1 billion stake in Nokia

4 months / cnbc

How Mercor’s human-in-the-loop AI platform went from college dropouts to $10B startup

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The scarcity of high-quality human expertise necessary for training and improving advanced models like ChatGPT has emerged as…

#ai #startups #vc #innovation #analytics #ml #saas #genai #business #technology

AI startup Mercor now valued at $10 billion with new $350 million funding round

4 months / cnbc

Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C

4 months / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

How Mercor’s human-in-the-loop AI platform went from college dropouts to $10B startup

4 months / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

The AI Startup Fueling ChatGPT’s Expertise Is Now Valued at $10 Billion

4 months / wsj / Angel Au-Yeung

Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia — stock soars 15%

cnbc - The AI200, expected in 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, both can come in a system that fills up a full, liquid-cooled server rack, Qualcomm said.