Rivian has spent nearly two years building its own AI assistant, an effort that remains separate from its multibillion-dollar technology joint venture with Volkswagen, TechCrunch has learned. Rivian hasn’t revealed when it will put the AI assistant in consumers hands. However, in an interview earlier this year, Rivian’s software chief Wassym Bensaid told TechCrunch it […]
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ThePew Research Centerreleased astudyon Tuesday that shows how young people are using both social media and AI chatbots. Teen internet safety has remained a global hot topic, with Australia planning toenforceasocial media banfor under-16s starting on Wednesday. The impact of social media on teen mental health has been extensively debated — some studies show howonline
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French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developers. Just days after releasing its powerful open source, general purpose Mistral 3 LLM family for edge devices and local hardware, the company returned
OpenAI is hiring Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its new chief revenue officer. The news was first reported byWired, thenconfirmed by OpenAIin a blog post. Dresser’s new role comes after more than 14 years at Salesforce, Slack’s parent company. While at Slack, Dresser oversaw the introduction of several AI features. OpenAI says that Dresser will
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Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, dubbed “Familiar Faces,” wasannounced earlier this Septemberand is now rolling out to Ring device owners in the United States. Amazon says the feature lets you identify the
As AI moves beyond chatbots and toward systems that can take actions, the Linux Foundation is launching a new group dedicated to keeping AI agents from splintering into a mess of incompatible, locked-down products. The group, dubbed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), will act as a neutral home for open source projects related to AI
Amazon has long had to deal with the reality thatownersof its Echo smart speakersweren’t usingits voice-controlled assistant, Alexa, to buy things, as it had hoped. The tech giant hasn’t given up on that dream yet: Its AI assistant, Alexa+, is getting new shopping-enabled features in the U.S. and Canada from today, including a shopping hub,
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Presented by BlueOcean AI has become a central part of how marketing teams work, but the results often fall short. Models can generate content at scale and summarize information in seconds, yet the outputs are not always aligned with the brand, the audience, or the company’s strategic goals. The problem is not capability. The problem
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Presented by Celonis The State of Oklahoma discovered its blind spots the hard way. In April 2023, a legislative report revealed its agencies had spent $3 billion without proper oversight. Janet Morrow, Director of Oklahoma's Risk, Assessment and Compliance Division, set out to track thousands of monthly transactions across dozens of disconnected systems. The Sooner
Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-efficiency deployment. The release includes two models in "large" and "small" sizes: GLM-4.6V (106B), a larger 106-billion parameter model aimed at cloud-scale inference GLM-4.6V-Flash (9B), a smaller model
