Infinite Reality — a fast-moving company focused on AI, immersive technology and digital media — has agreed to acquire agentic AI firm Touchcast for $500 million in cash and stock. Infinite Reality has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Touchcast in a deal that comes just a few weeks after Infinite Reality acquired Napster for…

404-GEN today announced it has become the first decentralized 3D model generation platform to integrate with Unity. The integration with Unity, platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences, enables developers or even players to generate models directly from the Bittensor mainnet within the Unity environment. The company targets next-gen content creators, not necessarily…

Presented by NVIDIA The AI revolution is accelerating driven by billion-parameter reasoning models needed to develop agentic and physical AI. As NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared in his GTC keynote, the move from training to full-production inference is causing AI compute demand to skyrocket as data centers worldwide transform into AI factories designed…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More 1Fort announced today a $7.5 million seed funding round to improve how small businesses obtain commercial insurance through its AI-powered platform. The New York-based startup, which has experienced 200% month-over-month revenue growth in 2024, aims to…

Kazu Gomi has a big view of the technology world from his perch in Silicon Valley. And as president and CEO of NTT Research, a division of the big Japanese telecommunications firm NTT, Gomi can control the R&D budget for a sizable chunk of the basic research that is done in Silicon Valley. And perhaps…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Just a year ago, the narrative around Google and enterprise AI felt stuck. Despite inventing core technologies like the Transformer, the tech giant seemed perpetually on the back foot, overshadowed by OpenAI‘s viral success, Anthropic‘s coding…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More National Oilwell Varco (NOV) is undergoing a sweeping cybersecurity transformation under CIO Alex Philips, embracing a Zero Trust architecture, strengthening identity defenses and infusing AI into security operations. While the journey is not complete, the results,…

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It is tough to remove bias, and in some cases, outright censorship, in large language models (LLMs). One such model, DeepSeek from China, alarmed politicians and some business leaders about its potential danger to national security. …

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Flash, a major upgrade to its AI lineup that gives businesses and developers unprecedented control over how much “thinking” their AI performs. The new model, released today in preview through Google…