VisioLab raises $11M Series A to scale AI self-checkout globally

VisioLab,a provider of AI-powered visual self-checkout solutions for food service, hasclosed an $11 million Series A financing round. The round was co-led byeCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners and Simon…

OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first
OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first

Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files to give the AI assistan…

Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down
Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down

Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing “Agentic Search Optimisation” as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, traditional search, and autonomous AI agents, drawing on 213 …

Google is building a four-partner chip supply chain to challenge Nvidia in AI inference
Google is building a four-partner chip supply chain to challenge Nvidia in AI inference

Summary: Google is building the AI industry’s most diversified custom chip supply chain, with four design partners (Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, Intel) and a roadmap stretching from the Ironwood TPU now shipping in the millions to TPU v8 chips at TSMC …

Musk fails to appear before Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of child sexual images
Musk fails to appear before Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of child sexual images

Summary: Elon Musk failed to appear for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of an estimated 23,000 sexualised images of children and 3 million sexualised images overall over an 11-day period, as the US DOJ refus…

New Jersey datacenter expansion got $77m in tax breaks to create exactly one permanent job — JPMorgan’s site already scored $35m and currently employs just 25 workers

A New Jersey data center expansion saw a tax break of $77,000,000, despite the fact that it would create exactly one new permanent job in the state.
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The question AI providers hope VPs of Engineering never ask
The question AI providers hope VPs of Engineering never ask

AI coding adoption is exploding. But most engineering leaders are still measuring usage instead of outcomes. That creates a costly blind spot. There is a question that nobody in the AI industry wants you to ask. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Google. N…

Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back

Tech workers in China are being instructed by their bosses to train AI agents to replace them—and it’s prompting a wave of soul-searching among otherwise enthusiastic early adopters.  Earlier this month a GitHub project called Colleague Skill, which claimed workers could use it to “distill” their colleagues’ skills and personality traits and replicate them with…

This AI tech can understand words that are not even spoken out loud

Researchers have developed a wearable AI sensor that reads neck movements to convert silent speech into audible voice, opening new possibilities for communication.

Character.AI turns books into roleplay bots amid ongoing safety concerns

Character.AI’s Books feature turns literature into interactive roleplay, but past safety concerns raise questions about how far AI companionship should go.