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In the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, few startups have risen as quickly as Mercor. Launched in 2022 by a trio of ambitious Thiel Fellows—Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha—the company has transformed from a small startup into a real player in the AI training industry. Mercor is quickly...

In a sign of growing momentum for AI infrastructure, Amsterdam-based Nebius Group has won a massive $17.4 billion five-year contract with Microsoft. The agreement, signed at the beginning of September 2025, sees Nebius emerge as a serious AI cloud services player and marks a historic chapter in the company’s history....

An audacious crossroads of technology and film history is taking place, as a modern-day showrunner plans to put generative AI to work in restoring the missing footage of Orson Welles’ 1942 masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons. Long considered a case study in “what might have been” in Hollywood, the film endured...

There is a race to bring AI into our daily workflow. And one startup is trying to bring the giants down a peg. (Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, to its credit, backed the company.) Today, Motion is announcing that it has raised a $38 million round at a new valuation,...

The ascent of artificial intelligence to the mainstream has been rapid. Tools like ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and others are transforming industries ranging from customer service to education and healthcare to creative work. But along with this exponential growth has come an equally rapid proliferation of a stubborn problem: AI hallucinations....

Warner Bros. Discovery is launching a major legal salvo against the AI service Midjourney, which it is suing for what it describes as pervasive copyright infringement. The entertainment giant claims that Midjourney’s AI program has enabled users to create numerous infringing depictions of its classic characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder...

Artificial Intelligence and Modern Marketing: 5 Things You Must Know Over the last five years, artificial intelligence has become the cornerstone of modern marketing. From personalized email campaigns and chatbots to predictive analytics and automated ad targeting, AI tools dangle the promise to marketers of something they’ve been seeking for...

AI keeps pushing the creative and technical boundaries, and one of the latest such leaps comes as a new model to turn regular photos into explorable, 3D-like worlds. This technology is generating tremendous enthusiasm from developers, digital artists, and researchers as it provides a glimpse into the future of immersive...

In the fast-moving field of artificial intelligence, Apple is also getting ready to wade into the race, which has been largely led by OpenAI, Google, and start-ups like Perplexity. Apple may be launching its own AI next year, turning Siri from a voice assistant into a fully-fledged conversational AI that...

Love It or Not, In-House Technologists are Working For the Man (the Big One, Actually!)What’s good for the gander is awfully good for the goose—and yes, it matters in AI. Everything You Wanted to Know About Microsoft’s Experimental AI Features Artificial intelligence is changing fast—the way we work, learn, and...

Artificial intelligence has graduated from the silver screen to the reality of everyday life, transforming the way we work, learn, and communicate. And two of the most notable AI systems in this revolution are Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. These two platforms are built to be conversational companions, problem-solvers, and...

Artificial intelligence has been advancing at a breakneck speed, but it has also led some people to ask whether an A.I. system could go rogue and turn on its human creators. And so few companies have been as important to the rise of artificial intelligence as OpenAI. The company has...

Artificial intelligence has made tremendous progress in recent times, and leading the charge has been OpenAI. The boundaries of machine learning are once again being pushed by OpenAI—it’s called GPT-5. Billed as the company’s most powerful and capable AI model yet, GPT-5 is already generating a lot of buzz, along...

What To Know About Microsoft’s Chatbot (Hint: It Will Ride the AI Wave) Artificial intelligence has been quietly growing in the background of the tools and applications we use each day, and Microsoft has quietly positioned itself at the forefront of this transformation. One of the features making the most...

Ransomware has transformed from a relatively niche type of cybercrime to a moneymaking weapon of mass destruction for hackers over the past 10 years. However, now in a significant twist, we have another reason to believe AI is almost here in mainstream ransomware threats: AI-powered ransomware. Cybercriminals are increasingly turning...

Apple has been viewed for years as a quiet but influential player in artificial intelligence, hiding its research from the world as companies such as Google, OpenAI, and Meta release open models that show off how much progress they have made. But the company has suffered a notable setback: four...

Tesla profit: Shares rise and slide after hours as automaker reports third-quarter results fell by a thirdSalesforce slashes 4,000 customer-support jobs after deploying AI chatbots A Seismic Shift in the Workplace In what can be considered the kind of seismic shift AI is bringing to the workplace, Salesforce has announced...

In an unexpected move in the artificial intelligence war, Apple is said to be planning a major update to Siri with a very non-Apple company: Google and its Gemini AI. If it does, that would rank among the most surprising partnerships in tech history, joining two companies that have competed...

Once the domain of research labs, artificial intelligence has swept into our daily lives—moving, in other words, from the academic to the everyday—and ChatGPT is at the front end of that transition. Ever since its launch, ChatGPT has taken the world by storm—millions of individuals, students, creators, and businesses have...

AI stalwart Anthropic has locked in a mammoth $13 billion Series F, boosting its post-money valuation to $183 billion. The record investment is one of the largest ever in a funding round for an AI company, highlighting the industry’s explosive expansion and investors’ faith in Anthropic’s prospects. San Francisco-based and...

Apple is testing generative AI-driven notification summaries once again, specifically for news stories, as part of its broader Apple Intelligence initiative. These summaries are reintroduced in the fourth developer beta releases of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, and other next-generation software updates announced today. But this time, Apple is...

In a strong sign that the investor demand for artificial intelligence has not waned, the research lab OpenAI is said to be trying to raise even more money from both its existing backers and new ones in its impressive $40 billion funding round. The transition reflects how the race to...

Fidji Simo, the chief executive leaving Instacart, brings vision and energy to her next job at OpenAI. A Dynamic Transition to OpenAI Fidji Simo, the existing CEO of Instacart who will soon become OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, has begun shaping her move from one leadership role to another. In a...

The world of artificial intelligence advances through controversy in the press — but it is breakthrough technology that, in the end, creates lasting value. That dichotomy is laid bare at xAI, Elon Musk’s mysterious AI startup. Its viral Grok AI friends have captured the public imagination with their provocative personalities,...

OpenAI, which is building artificial general intelligence to benefit humanity and powers a suite of next-gen AI technologies, has inked one of the largest commercial cloud deals in history with Oracle to support the organization’s high-performance computing workloads. New reports peg the agreement at a $30 billion per annum pact—a...

Comet AI Browser is a rapid and simple browser developed by the ZPhone Team. It is known for: Faster scrolling Quicker page loading Richer content The browser is designed to offer a secure and efficient browsing experience, optimized for both speed and user convenience. Perplexity in Talks with Phone Makers...

The AI company Anthropic has quietly imposed stricter usage limits on its product Claude Code — without giving warning to users, sparking widespread backlash. The abrupt modifications have caught users off guard, especially those subscribed to the Max plan, which at $200 a month had been promoted as premium access...

Netflix is Leading the Charge in Using Machine Learning to Prey on Consumers’ Artistic Taste Taking a Giant Step Forward in Entertainment Netflix has declared that it has harnessed the power of generative AI (GenAI) to create its popular series and movies. The streaming service told the Herald on Thursday...

By AI Latest Byte Staff WriterJuly 20, 2025 Introduction While we are undeniably living in the age of AI-based technology, many users have hopped off the AI bandwagon—particularly when they find themselves inundated with AI content that disrupts their search for real, useful information. In response, DuckDuckGo has introduced a...

By AI Latest Byte – July 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a daring push into the future of enterprise artificial intelligence with its new platform, Bedrock AgentCore—a cutting-edge toolkit designed to transform the way companies develop and deploy AI agents. Built specifically for enterprise use, Bedrock AgentCore offers...