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Onton, a San Francisco-based search and discovery company, has released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic model for complex, conversational, multimodal product search.

AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. It holds 16B total parameters but activates only 2.8B per token, using Gated MLA and FarSkip-Collective.

'Enhance the lives of every Utahn': Cox launches $5M AI research funding program ksl.com

The company said it planned to release the model weights in the coming days, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra. and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

Seychelles-based startup Fusepay has launched an AI-native operating and financial system for trade businesses across the Indian Ocean and Africa. Licensed as a payment service provider by the Central Bank of Seychelles, Fusepay is focused on solving one of the biggest challenges facing businesses…

Two years after first revealing its plans for Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri that never fully materialized, at WWDC Apple just revealed a new set of AI features and a smarter, more personalized Siri.

Under new rules, tech companies will be asked to share AI models with government for review before public release Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a voluntary framework for the federal government to vet powerful new AI models before they are released.

The next AI race is in the physical world, according to Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Luma AI listened. The company is announcing the launch of an open research lab that will allow anyone to train robots on its software.

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit, best known for providing technology infrastructure to corporations, is looking to sell AI-powered productivity software for the office.

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Bluechip Technologies announced the acquisition of YarnGPT, an AI text-to-speech model, at the Bluechip Data and AI Summit on Wednesday, as Africa's tech leaders gathered to define the continent's role in the AI future.

Coinbase launches tool to let AI agents manage trading and payments CNBC

Deezer will now scan your playlists on other streaming platforms to detect AI-generated music. Deezer was the first of the big streaming services to start labeling AI-generated music. It even offered its tech to other platforms, but it doesn't seem like it had many buyers.

AI company restricted access to Fable 5, its most powerful Mythos model, for months over cybersecurity concerns Anthropic, the maker of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models, made a new version of its technology available to the general public on Tuesday while restricting its use in…

IBM celebrates a significant milestone as Blue Pearl leverages an agentic AI-powered software development partner to accelerate the modernization of their legacy Java codebase. IBM Bob is helping enterprises shift from traditional AI-assisted coding to AI-assisted software delivery.

Canada's "AI for All" plan prioritizes strengthening data protections and increasing AI adoption.

Merantix Capital, Europe’s premier AI investor, has announced the final closing of its second fund, a €103 million fundraising which will be used to break through as Europe’s industrial expertise The post Merantix Capital Launches €103M Fund for European AI appeared first on Ventureburn.

Anchor, a leading African financial infrastructure company, has announced the..

AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, is announcing a collaboration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, to transform how industrial organizations unify, govern, and activate data across IT and OT environments.

Build Club launches Campus, a free virtual AI school to learn, build and get certified, unlocking your AI skills.

Erin Brockovich has launched a new project to give people 'a platform to speak up and voice concerns about AI data centers.'

HP is betting buyers will pay more for local AI processing and premium portability as it rolls out pricier PCs across both markets.

Nigeria has launched a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot designed to help citizens access government information and services, in one of the country’s biggest public sector AI projects so far.