Author: Advanced AI Editor

Published on September 16, 2025 by Joseph K Biru Cao and Yiqing Wang, two graduates from MIT, recently developed a new desktop 3D printer called FOODres.AI.The system combines artificial intelligence, object recognition, and additive manufacturing to convert household food waste such as fruit peels, coffee grounds, and leftover rice into coasters, containers, and even small decorative items. Unlike most at-home 3D printers that rely on plastics or resins, FOODres.AI showcases how unconventional organic materials can be adapted for 3D printing by consumers at home.The printer itself utilizes a custom three-axis extrusion system paired with a heating and mixing module that…

WorkFusion, a startup that has developed AI agents for financial crime compliance, has raised $45 million in funding, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively. Founded in 2010 out of MIT Labs, New York-based WorkFusion pivoted a few years ago from general automation and intelligent document processing to focus on its AI agents for financial crime compliance, according to CEO Adam Famularo. Originally, WorkFusion “was trying to automate pretty much anything for anybody,” he said. “It would use any one of its baseline technologies to do that work. But the problem was that you can’t scale something like that,” Famularo recalls.…

On Tuesday, Google announced a new open protocol for purchases initiated by AI agents — automated software programs that can shop and make decisions on behalf of users — with backing from more than 60 merchants and financial institutions. Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems and vendors, providing a traceable paper trail for each transaction. In a post announcing the protocol, Google executives emphasized their commitment to openness. “We are committed to evolving this protocol in an open, collaborative process, including through standards bodies, and  invite the entire…

Zendesk is exiting the sales CRM business, closing down its Sell product on August 31, 2027.Customers will continue to have full access to the Sell product until the shutdown date.As Zendesk noted in a web post, the move will help channel all its attention toward transforming the customer service stack.“This change allows us to focus even more deeply on what we do best – helping businesses like yours deliver exceptional customer and employee service,” noted Jennifer Change, VP of Product Development Program Management and Operations at Zendesk.By concentrating our efforts on service, we can move faster, innovate more boldly with…

This fall, Sotheby’s will open its first auction season inside the Breuer building with a collection that’s never been seen outside a Chicago living room. Cindy and Jay Pritzker, known for hotels and the Pritzker Architecture Prize, also built a private cache of paintings that stayed out of view for decades. In November, parts of it will head to auction with an overall estimate north of $120 million. The lead lot is Vincent van Gogh’s Romans Parisiens (Les Livres jaunes), an 1887 painting of paperback novels stacked on a table. Van Gogh made only nine still lifes of books, and just…

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How well-supported are the claims made by AI tools?Oscar Wong/Getty Images Generative AI tools, and the deep research agents and search engines powered by them, frequently make unsupported and biased claims that aren’t backed up by the sources they cite. That’s according to an analysis which found that about one-third of answers provided by the AI tools aren’t backed up by reliable sources. For OpenAI’s GPT 4.5, the figure was even higher, at 47 per cent. Pranav Narayanan Venkit at Salesforce AI Research and his colleagues tested generative AI search engines, including OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 and 5, You.com, Perplexity and Microsoft’s…

AI Video Generator Market Expands as Demand for Short-Form Content Soars.Businesses and creators are rapidly adopting AI video generators. This new software creates videos from simple text prompts. The global market for this technology is experiencing significant growth.This expansion is driven by the massive demand for short-form video content. Platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels require a constant stream of engaging clips. According to Reuters, the AI media generation sector is attracting substantial investment from major tech firms.How AI Video Technology is Reshaping Content CreationThese tools use advanced machine learning models. They can generate realistic scenes, animated sequences, and even…

Stanford Law School has launched a new research project, the ‘Legal Innovation Through Frontier Technology Lab’, or Liftlab, to explore how AI can reshape legal services for the better. The project led by Professor Julian Nyarko and Executive Director Megan Ma (pictured), stressed that the goal was not just to make legal services ‘faster and cheaper, but better and more widely accessible’. Although, one could say that to make legal services more accessible will mean making them more affordable, and in turn faster and easier to access. Either way, it’s a welcome move and builds on the work that Stanford’s…

Semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML and Mistral AI announced a partnership to explore the use of AI models across ASML’s product portfolio to enhance its holistic lithography systems. In addition, ASML was the lead investor in the latest funding round in the AI startup and now holds an 11% share on a fully diluted basis in Mistral AI. The deal holds a massive symbolic weight in the era of sovereign AI and trade barriers. Although not big in the great scheme of things and especially compared with the eye-watering sums usually exchanged in the bubbly AI world, it brings together Europe’s…