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TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ its Person of the Year
Each December, TIME Magazine names a person of the year — someone who has most influenced the news…
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Disney signs deal with OpenAI to allow Sora to generate AI videos featuring its characters
The Walt Disney Company announced on Thursday that it has signed a three-year partnership with OpenAI that will…
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Runway releases its first world model, adds native audio to latest video model
The race to release world models is on as AI image and video generation company Runway joins an…
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Rivian’s AI assistant is coming to its EVs in early 2026
Rivian’s two-year effort to build its own AI assistant will launch in early 2026. And when it does, the…
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Google debuts ‘Disco,’ a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs
Google on Thursday introduced a new AI experiment for the web browser: the Gemini-powered product Disco, which helps…
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World launches its ‘super app,’ including crypto pay and encrypted chat features
World, the biometric ID verification project co-founded by Sam Altman, released the newest version of its app today,…
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Stanford’s star reporter takes on Silicon Valley’s ‘money-soaked’ startup culture
Theo Baker is truly an outlier. While journalism as a major has seen shrinking enrollment for years and…
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Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2
Google released on Thursday a “reimagined” version of its research agent Gemini Deep Research based on its much-ballyhooed…
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OpenAI fires back at Google with GPT-5.2 after ‘code red’ memo
OpenAI launched its latest frontier model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday amid increasing competition from Google, pitching it as its…
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1X struck a deal to send its ‘home’ humanoids to factories and warehouses
1X found some big potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers — the portfolio companies of…