In its third-quarter earnings call Thursday, the neocloud company Nebius laid out $40 billion in planned spending for 2027, far more than Wall Street had expected. It’s an ambitious plan, but it rests on a string of planned projects that are already starting to show cracks. Nebius plans to fund the buildout by relying on…
After initially testing the feature in September, Meta’s consumer AI agent Muse is now able to place calls to U.S. businesses on behalf of its users. However, only paid subscribers have access to the feature, the company says. Meta’s Muse, which now has over 10 million users, the company said last month, has been working…
Democrats on Thursday opened an inquiry into how the Trump administration handled Nvidia’s chip sales to China. Earlier on Thursday, the company ousted its CEO Jensen Huang. He also agreed to testify to a different set of Republican-led Congressional committees. Huang was removed from the company he founded after he confessed to an extramarital affair…
Most AI coworker products are vendor locked. They pick the model, host the data, and write the rules. CopilotKit is taking the opposite route. OpenBot 1.0, was released November 9th, an MIT-licensed, self-hostable agent workspace. What sets it apart is, a company brings their own models, agents and infrastructure. Governance is fully baked in, and…
News of Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged asset of China’s Ministry of State Security was first met with a muted response in Silicon Valley—including inside Nvidia itself. Huang’s resignation, after news of two other alleged romantic relationships with Nvidia staffers, has left both the company and the broader AI industry stunned. As revelations about…
Liquid AI has released LiquidCodec, the audio codec behind its LFM3-Audio-2B and LFM3-Omni-2B models. The LiquidCodec audio codec is a ~74M-parameter streaming speech tokenizer. It turns speech into tokens a language model can predict, then converts those tokens back into audio. Liquid AI had 2 goals: easy-to-predict tokens and fast conversion back to speech. The…
Leah Feiger: It means it’s a time for another emergency pod. We’re just going to keep this going all day. Brian Barrett: We’re going to have to do another emergency pod. Exactly. All day. Get ready, folks. Zoë Schiffer: We have been talking a lot though about how interconnected, not just the AI industry is,…
The most powerful woman in tech at this very moment is Colette Kress, the new interim CEO of Nvidia—but her predecessor, Jensen Huang, failed to mention her in a recent back-and-forth about the topic. Earlier this fall, WIRED published a feature story exploring the complex topic of power for women working in an industry traditionally…
Google Search is getting better at understanding complicated questions, including those with multiple parts, highly specific requests, or confusing typos. The updates are coming via the company’s newly released Gemini 4 Hydrogen model, which Google claims is its “biggest model improvement to Search yet.” While Google’s frontier models, Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 4 Argon,…
AWS has released AWS Emulator, a local emulator of the AWS APIs. You run it on a laptop, a dev server or in CI. The AWS CLI and SDKs talk to it instead of AWS. No AWS account is needed, and there is no service fee. The unusual part: autonomous…
