Google Research and NASA JPL have released a deep learning model that maps methane plumes globally at 60 metres, finding about 50% more than human analysts and 23,000 additional plumes, including at 24 of the 25 largest-emitting landfills. Europe’s Met…
Google’s autumn roundup of its AI subscriptions leads on Gemini Spark handling web errands through Chrome for US subscribers, alongside voice tools, an image editor and a spreadsheet app builder that do reach Europe. Spark itself is unavailable across …
Dynamic Creatures, a Boston Dynamics spinoff, has launched to build robots for theme parks and retail, writing software and buying hardware from Unitree, AgiBot and Boston Dynamics. Europe’s Machinery Regulation covers AI safety functions from January …
Apple has made a foldable iPhone. It is called the iPhone Duo, it opens to 7.6 inches, and it starts at $1,999. The price is the news. Analysts expected $2,500. Samsung, which has had this category almost to itself for seven years, sells its Z Fold8 Ul…
A Gamers Nexus investigation says LG smart TVs scan local networks, record standby audio and use content recognition across inputs, feeding data to LG Ad Solutions. LG says the claims are not true, while confirming that its televisions scan local netwo…
Suno has launched a new generation of AI music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, and will switch off everything that came before them. “As v6 rolls out, we will retire our previous models and move Suno entirely onto the v6 generat…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who had spent three years at OpenAI and then Anthropic, announced his resignation on X on Tuesday. “Neither company is acting responsibly,” he wrote. “They are racing straight to self-improving superint…
Meta has launched a personal AI agent that will read your email, book your travel, fill in your forms, negotiate on your behalf, and pay for the results with your card. The company that built the world’s largest behavioural advertising business also sa…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features r…
Cognition raised over $2bn at a $48bn valuation, up from $26bn in May. Run-rate revenue rose from $492m to almost $900m over the same period. Both rounds price the company at roughly 53 times run-rate revenue, so the multiple did not expand. Cognition …