Suno Raises $400 Million While Fighting the Music Industry
Suno, the AI company that lets anyone generate a song from a text prompt, has raised $400 million in new funding even as it fights a copyright battle that could…
WeChat Lets Phone Assistants Place Its Calls
WeChat, the messaging service used by more than a billion people, is opening its most guarded asset: the ability to place calls and send messages. The company said this week…
Google’s Dreambeans Turns Photos Into Cartoons
Google has a new AI toy, and it has an unusual name. The company this week launched Dreambeans, a tool that transforms photographs and everyday scenes into cartoon-style images with…
Microsoft Ships Seven In-House AI Models, Testing Its Ties to OpenAI
SEATTLE — On the Build 2026 stage, a Microsoft engineer handed a new reasoning model a 40,000-line codebase and asked it to find a memory leak, explain the cause in…
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Lands in Microsoft’s Surface, Opening a New Front in PC Chips
SEATTLE — The laptop looked like every other premium ultraportable on the Build 2026 stage: thin metal chassis, edge-to-edge display, the kind of machine executives carry to meetings. Then the…
Microsoft’s Scout Assistant Manages Your Calendar, and Learns How You Work
SEATTLE — The demonstration began with a calendar that had gone wrong. Three meetings had been double-booked, a deadline had slipped, and a policy document was due in two hours.…
Microsoft’s Project Solara Puts an Operating System on Standalone AI Devices
SEATTLE — The device on the Build 2026 stage had no screen, no keyboard, and no obvious way to control it. It was a small black puck sitting on a…
OpenAI’s Codex Adds Plugins for Six Professions, Reaching Into Banking
NEW YORK — The workflow OpenAI demonstrated for its new investment banking plugin looked like a junior banker’s morning compressed into seconds. Codex pulled the comparable transactions, checked them against…
Google’s Phone App Now Flags Deepfake Callers, Using a Digital Handshake
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The call came from the number of a contact saved in the phone, and the voice on the line sounded like that person, warm and familiar,…
Britain Rules Website Owners Can Block Google From Training AI on Their Content
LONDON — For years, the default assumption inside the AI industry was that anything posted publicly on the internet was fair game for training models. A British regulatory ruling this…
