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Amazon suspends drone deliveries in the US after an accident at a testing facility– BC

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Amazon has suspended testing of its delivery drones following an accident involving two of its models. according to Bloomberg. It’s the latest setback for Amazon’s embattled Prime Air program, which aims to deliver about 500 million packages a year to customers by the end of the decade. Bloomberg reports that two Amazon drones crashed in […]

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Synthesia Secures $180M at $2.1B Valuation for Its B2B AI Video Platform– BC

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As the world continues to work out how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it appears that not all AI-created videos are generating controversy. synthesisA London startup that creates products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, says it is a big hit with businesses, with around 60,000 of them (1 million users) using

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Judge allows California ban on addictive foods for minors to take effect– BC

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On Tuesday night, a federal judge blocked Tech lobby group NetChoice’s challenge to California’s recently enacted law, SB 976which prohibits businesses from serving “addictive foods” to minors. The effect of this decision is that starting Wednesday, companies willpower You are prohibited from providing an addictive feed to a California-based user who you know is a

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Google CEO says Gemini AI model will be company’s ‘biggest focus’ in 2025– BC

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CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told Google employees that 2025 will be a “critical” year for the company. CNBC reports that I obtained audio of a strategy meeting from December 18. where Pichai and other executives put on ugly Christmas sweaters and laid out their priorities for the coming year. “I think 2025 will be critical,”

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AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are venture capitalists cautious?– BC

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When you really research venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they will tell you that companies are experimenting big, but are slow to add AI solutions to their ongoing business processes. But there are some exceptions. And one of them appears to be an area known as AI sales development representatives, or AI SDRs.

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DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best ‘open’ challengers yet– BC

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A Chinese lab has created what appears to be one of the most powerful “open” AI models to date. the model, Deep Search V3was developed by artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek and was released Wednesday under a permissive license that allows developers to download and modify it for most applications, including commercial ones. DeepSeek V3 can

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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in new cash to fuel AI ambitions– BC

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Updated December 25 at 12:21 pm Pacific: Added details of xAI’s valuation and Kingdom Holdings’ contribution. xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has increase $6 billion in a Series C financing round. The company announced this week in which Andreessen Horowitz, Blackrock, Fidelity, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Vy

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xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot– BC

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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which until now was only available to X users. The app, currently available in Australia and some countries in beta, can access real-time data from the web and X, and offers generative AI features like rewriting text, summarizing long

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OpenAI’s GPT-5 Reportedly Fails to Meet Expectations– BC

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OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next big model, GPT-5, are behind schedule, with results not yet justifying the huge costs, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. This resonates a previous report at The Information suggests that OpenAI is looking for new strategies, as GPT-5 might not represent a breakthrough like previous

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Google expands Gemini’s in-depth research mode to 40 languages– BC

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Google said Friday that the company is expanding Gemini’s latest in-depth research mode to 40 more languages. The company launched In-Depth Research Mode earlier this month, allowing users of the Google One AI premium plan to unlock a sort of AI-powered research assistant. The in-depth feature works with a multi-step approach, from creating a research

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