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While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.

WeatherNext 3 ingests live geostationary satellite mosaics, refreshes hourly, and outputs 5 km forecasts across Search, Gemini, Maps. The post Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trains on Weather Station Observations to Deliver 5 km Global Forecasts, Refreshed Every Hour appeared first on MarkTechPost....

The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.

The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at at over $100 million.

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Emergent behaviours in AI may look mysterious, but they aren’t signs of magic, consciousness, or spontaneous intelligence. This article breaks down the real mechanics behind emergence—statistical phase transitions, scaling laws, and representational thresholds—and explains why these surprising capab...

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real....

Wonderful's $550M Series C was led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce, Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer participating.

Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.

Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually came from the retailer.

AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.

The new features coming to Android are aimed at reducing motion sickness, helping blind users navigate their surroundings, and more.

The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.

Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send personalized alerts about product launches, tours, books, shows, and other events that could trigger a purchase.

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

As frustration over AI influencers has been growing, Instagram is limiting the reach of undisclosed AI profiles.

Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month

The OpenClaw Foundation has released v2026.8.1, which the project calls OpenClaw 2.0: 933 contributors, 569 first-timers, and more than 16,000 pull requests, roughly half of every PR ever merged into the repo. Setup now reuses existing subscriptions, API keys and local models. The rebuilt Control UI...

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared driver specification that lets AI agents discover and safely operate physical devices. Instrument integration that normally takes weeks or months drops to hours: Carnegie Mellon went from raw equipment to a finish...

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

Z.ai and Qwen independently shipped near-identical architectures: 3:1 linear hybrids, compressed indexers, gated residuals, and Muon training. The post GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture appeared first on MarkTechPost.