After years of living in Google’s ecosystem, I just want out
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority For a long time, it’s been hard for me to imagine life without Google. From Search and Gmail to Nest speakers and Pixel phones,…
Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK’s AI ecosystem by 2028 end (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
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Google is pitching an AI agent ecosystem to consumers who may not buy it
One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the…
Kobo finally copies one of Kindle’s biggest ecosystem advantages
Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Rakuten Kobo announced a new integration with StoryGraph. The feature will support automatic syncing for current reads, reading progress, finished books, and star ratings.…
Threat actors published 600+ malicious versions to npm as part of the Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign; most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
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Impressions of China’s AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
Featured Podcasts Training Data: ElevenLabs’ Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for Everything Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding…
Walmart’s Gemini speaker leak suggests Google is opening up its ecosystem again
TL;DR A new Onn smart speaker from Walmart has surfaced early, and it appears to run Google’s Gemini instead of Assistant. The listing on the Connectivity Standards Alliance website confirms…
Y Combinator says Google is a ‘monopolist’ that has ‘stunted’ the startup ecosystem
Fabled startup investor and accelerator Y Combinator has some choice words for Google in an amicus brief it just submitted in the U.S.’s monopoly case against the search giant. In…
Investments in French AI ecosystem reach $85B as Brookfield commits $20B
Canadian investment firm Brookfield plans to invest €20 billion by 2030 in artificial intelligence projects in France (around $20.7 billion at current exchange rates), according to a report from La…
Bpifrance will invest $10B in the French AI ecosystem by 2029
France’s public investment bank announced that it plans to invest as much as €10 billion (around $10.3 billion at current exchange rates) in the artificial intelligence ecosystem in France. This…