Google has announced Gemini as the default assistant for Pixel 9 devices, introduced Gemini Live for voice conversations, expanded Gemini's integration across Android devices, and unveiled new accessibility features, marking a shift towards AI-powered capabilities across its product ecosystem.
Ragie, a new AI company founded by industry veterans, has launched a RAG-as-a-Service platform with $5.5M in funding, offering developers a streamlined solution for building AI applications connected to their data sources.
Prediction marketplace Polymarket has partnered with AI search engine Perplexity to provide users with AI-generated news summaries and search capabilities for events, while Perplexity gains a new API customer and expands its content offerings.
Cosine has developed Genie, an AI software engineer that achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-Bench benchmark by using a novel approach of training on data that reconstructs human developer reasoning, positioning it as a potential game-changer in automated software development.
X got into trouble with regulators again; two mental health-focused startups raised funds; Amazon upgraded Titan, its image generation model; YouTube creators can now brainstorm with Gemini; Anysphere raised $60 million; DeepMind shared some research advances including a table tennis-playing robot.
A new AI assistant called Silvia, created by engineer Mansidak Singh, can understand and transcribe "Spanglish" and other language mixtures, addressing a common need among bilingual speakers and promising to expand to more language combinations in the future.
Berlin-based startup clare&me has raised €3.7 million in funding to develop its AI-powered mental health support offerings, including a self-help chatbot and a clinical intake assessment tool, utilizing an empathetic language model trained in various therapeutic techniques.
AI-powered workflow automation startup Bardeen has secured $3 million in strategic investment from Dropbox and HubSpot, bringing its total funding to $22 million, as it aims to revolutionize business process automation by focusing on repeatability and customizability.
Psychiatrist Dr. David Burns' AI-powered therapy app 'Feeling Great' has launched with $8 million in seed funding, offering interactive courses and an empathetic chatbot based on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to make mental health support more accessible and affordable.
SoundHound AI has acquired Amelia for $80 million, combining their expertise in voice and conversational AI to become a leading provider of AI solutions across multiple industries, with expected combined revenue exceeding $150 million in 2025.
Google DeepMind has developed a table tennis-playing robot that performs at an amateur human level, winning against beginner and some intermediate human opponents, marking a significant milestone in robotics while highlighting areas for impact outside the realm of table tennis.
Researchers from Imperial College London and Google DeepMind have developed DAAG, a novel AI framework that combines language and vision models to enhance embodied agents' learning efficiency and adaptability, addressing the challenge of limited training data in physical environments.