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Tesla is bailing out Canadian automakers once again, as some companies in the country are consistently failing to reach mandated minimum sales targets for emission-free vehicles. Many countries and regions across the world have enacted mandates that require car companies to sell a certain percentage of electric powertrains each year in an effort to make sustainable transportation more popular. These mandates are specifically to help reduce the environmental impacts of gas-powered cars. In Canada, 20 percent of new car sales in the 2026 model year must be of an emissions-free powertrain. This number will eventually increase to 100 percent of…

CHINA – 2025/09/04: In this photo illustration, an IBM logo is seen displayed on the screen of a tablet. (Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images IBM shares notched a fifth straight session of gains, rising 7.3% over the past five days. The rally added roughly $18 billion in market value, bringing IBM’s market capitalization to about $241 billion. The stock now stands 20.3% above its level at the end of 2024, compared with a 10.7% year-to-date gain for the S&P 500. IBM’s recent rise can be attributed to CEO Arvind Krishna’s on-air discussion…

Cyber criminals increasingly see email as a weak link they can exploit; AI could be the answergetty Cybersecurity attacks perpetrated through emails are costing organisations all around the world a fortune. IT giant IBM says phishing emails are now the world’s most common attack vector for data breaches – and that the average breach costs $4.45 million to resolve – but the threat posed by email is much broader. Attackers also use email to launch ransomware attacks, deliver malware and pursue frauds such as spoof executive requests. Enter Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, two former Google executives best known for…

Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly the hottest area of tech today, with venture capital dollars flowing into startups in the space at unprecedented levels. Within the vast space, voice AI startups have emerged as a standout, attracting the attention of investors globally, Crunchbase data shows. Over the past 12-18 months, several voice AI companies have seen their valuations triple — a signal of accelerating market demand and perceived long-term worth. One example of a voice AI company that has seen a massive valuation jump this year is ElevenLabs, which allows creators, enterprises and others to use AI software to replicate voices…

Tesla has introduced MultiPass, a new feature that allows owners to use their Tesla account to charge at non-Tesla charging stations.  The service launched this week in the Netherlands, giving drivers the ability to find chargers, start sessions, and view charging history directly within the Tesla app. Streamlining third-party charging With MultiPass, Tesla owners can activate charging either through the Tesla app or by using their existing Tesla key card. This eliminates the need for separate accounts or additional cards from third-party networks. Tesla Charging highlighted the convenience of managing charging sessions in one location in a post on X,…

Fabian Kamberi, CEO and co-founder of the Berlin-based AI gaming startup Born, thinks the current AI companions on the market are designed to be exploitative and geared towards isolating users through one-to-one relationships with AI chatbots.  “It feels like it fuels the loneliness epidemic, instead of making it more fun and giving users the opportunity to make their lives better,” Kamberi told TechCrunch.  The future of AI companions, he says, is about shared experiences that strengthen real-world bonds. Born’s flagship AI product is an app where users can raise, play mini-games with, and co-parent a cute virtual pet named Pengu.…

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation. Announced Wednesday morning, the “Really Simply Licensing” (RSL) standard evolves robots.txt instructions by adding an automated licensing layer that’s designed to block bots that don’t fairly compensate creators for content. Free for any publisher to use starting today, the RSL standard is an open, decentralized protocol that makes clear to AI crawlers and agents the terms for licensing, usage, and compensation of any content used to…

Voices announces the availability of its one-of-a-kind, ethically sourced character, high quality voice dataset, featuring over 450 distinct character types, each performed by professional voice contributors. NEW YORK, September 10, 2025 (Newswire.com) – Voices, the world’s leading voice solutions and voice data provider, today announced the release of its new character audio dataset featuring character-specific voice data, purpose-built for voice AI training.The dataset offers a large and expressive range of voice data, featuring 19 tones, 35 emotions, and 21 paralinguistic cues across more than 450 character types, ranging from a 1920s Flapper, a Drill Sergeant, a Wise Old Wizard, and…

Moveworks, the leading generative AI copilot for employee support, is releasing the Moveworks Copilot, providing employees with a conversational interface that enables them to interact with and take action across all business systems using natural language.Additionally, Moveworks previewed upcoming enhancements, including Copilot for Web and an innovative, first-of-its-kind plugin Template Library for new LLM use cases.“Unlike other Copilots, Moveworks is the one central place where employees can connect to the right data, the right workflow, the right automation, and the right insights across all of your applications,” said Bhavin Shah, CEO and co-founder of Moveworks. “By sitting at the intersection…

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. ASML (ASML, Financials) is making a big bet on artificial intelligence. The Dutch chip equipment maker said Tuesday it invested 1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) in Mistral AI, giving it an 11% stake and making it the French startup’s largest shareholder. The deal, part of Mistral’s 1.7 billion ($2 billion) funding round, values the company at 11.7 billion the highest for any AI startup in Europe. For ASML, the move is about more than money. It plans to integrate Mistral’s models across its semiconductor equipment, bringing AI directly into the tools that power chip production.…