Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data
Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation
Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation
Companies developing AI models to power humanoid and other robots have been hard at work collecting videos and other data for training their models …
Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run-rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages
our new home base in India, and Anthropic's second office in Asia-Pacific. India is our second-largest market for https://claude.ai/. We're launching new partnerships to deepen our long-term commitmen...
Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run-rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages
India is the second-largest market for Claude.ai, home to a developer community doing some of the most technically intense AI work we see anywhere.
Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source
Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source
The tech giant reported hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected child sexual abuse material, but won't say where it came from
AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence says it saw improvements in its vision-language-action model by including human video data in the fine-tuning process
human data Mehdi / @bettercallmedhi : Physical Intelligence may have just triggered the real inflection point for robotics π0.5 shows emergent human to robot transfer: once the model is big enough, it...
Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection
Revamped ‘TikTok USA’ Expected Next Month Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider : US investors to close deal on 50% ownership of TikTok January 22 Sports Business Journal : TikTok sale becomes official, with...
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app
except when it gaslit me Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica : Google's new Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini 3 power to generate more realistic AI images Robert Hart / The Verge : Google's new AI image creator too...