SoundHound and Salesforce are betting big on agentic AI. The next big evolution in artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to be agentic AI, in which AI agents will perform tasks autonomously, with little or no human supervision. The technology carries the promise of a workforce of AI agents who work alongside everyday employees. It’s no…
AI may be able to help complete certain types of jobs, like coding, more quickly. But this may come at the cost of improving what you do and mastering new skills in the process, new search watch. The AI company Anthropic, which develops the competitor ChatGPT Claude, conducted the study out of 52 junior software…
Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The company plans to use the capital to accelerate the deployment of its high-speed memory chips, a critical component for chips used for AI workloads, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Among the investors participating in the round is…
The chart shows the latest update on the number of seats won by the ruling bloc (red) and the opposition (blue). The ruling camp had 235 seats before the elections, and the opposition had 230. A total of 233 seats are needed to obtain a majority in the 465-seat House. TOKYO – Team Mirai, Japan’s…
Gwinnett 911 adds AI for faster emergency response Gwinnett County is investing $2.5 million to upgrade its 911 system with artificial intelligence and next-generation 911 capabilities. This redesign will allow dispatchers to directly receive photos, videos and text while using AI for real-time translation and transcription in one of Georgia’s most diverse counties. The project,…
Starlink clients are the latest thing for the AI mill. The company has updated its Privacy Policy on January 15 to enable the collection of user data for AI training. Customers are registered by default, but it is relatively simple to unsubscribe. Starlink says it may use your personal information “to train our machine learning…
Visteon (VC) just used CES 2026 to showcase a group of AI-focused products, including its Snapdragon-based high-performance computing cockpit platform, an AI-ADAS module powered by NVIDIA, and a new cognitoAI integration from TomTom. Check out our latest analysis for Visteon. Despite the flurry of CES announcements regarding AI cockpits and ADAS, Visteon’s recent stock price…
“Today, most investors still view AI and crypto as separate worlds. The real opportunity lies in the infrastructure layer that connects them: protocols that allow agents to discover counterparties, negotiate, validate and settle transactions programmatically,” said Ran Levitzky, general partner at Magenta Venture Partners. When asked which sector or trend is currently being ignored and…
Heterogeneous computing is quietly redefining how AI appears in everyday devices, bringing intelligence closer to where people actually use it rather than keeping it locked in remote cloud systems. As AI expands into physical products, success depends less on raw performance and more on how efficiently CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs work together. Heterogeneous computing manifests…
Five9 announced its decision to collaborate with Google Cloud for common customer experience solutions. This follows a series of announcements from the contact center giant earlier this week focused on improving customer experience with AI services. Their latest partnership will see both providers collaborate towards an effective customer solution, enabling enterprise customers to improve their…