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Samsung’s home robot Ballie is finally poised to roll into our homes… and maybe our hearts? Following teasing a release sometime this year at CES 2025, the company has now announced that the cute rolling bot will arrive in the US this summer, with pre-registration open on Samsung’s website. The ball-shaped robot is equipped with two wheels and designed as a personal assistant for the home. First announced in 2020, it has gone through a number of upgrades over the years and now features a built-in projector, speaker, and microphone.With capabilities similar to that of smart displays, including controlling your…
Gemini 2.5 Flash: Our most cost-efficient thinking modelWe’re also announcing Gemini 2.5 Flash, our low latency and most cost efficient thinking model. With 2.5 Flash, you can control how much the model reasons, and balance performance with your budget.Gemini 2.5 Flash is coming soon in Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and in the Gemini app. We’ll be sharing more details on the model and its performance soon.Products and platforms powered by world-class AIOur goal is to always bring our latest AI advances into the fourth layer of our stack: products and platforms. Today all 15 of our half-billion user products…
With its plan for a “European AI continent”, the EU Commission wants to catch up with other AI locations around the world: In terms of cloud infrastructure, Europe is currently equipped with three times fewer data centers than the USA, according to Commission circles. Corresponding capacities should therefore be created throughout Europe. The Commission wants to boost the development of AI in the EU with up to 200 billion euros. Of this, 20 billion euros are to be made available for up to five new “AI Gigafactories”. However, it is unclear how much of this will actually be provided from…
Getty Images / Anadolu / ContributorAgentic AI is the hottest AI topic because it takes AI assistance as we know it a step further, actually carrying out tasks for users. Adobe has millions of users who rely on its applications and services to carry out complex everyday business or creative processes. As a result, it is nearly a perfect candidate for agentic AI, and Adobe plans to go all in on it. Also: Adobe brings four highly-requested Premiere Pro AI features out of betaOn Wednesday, Adobe published a blog post previewing how it will integrate AI agents into its applications,…
NVIDIA has announced a foundation AI model for humanoid robots called NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1, aka GR00T N1. The chip maker announced that this pre-trained AI model is available as open-source. The announcement came at the company’s annual GTC conference, which took place in San Jose, California, on March 18. NVIDIA has announced the GR00T N1, a foundation AI model for humanoid robots NVIDIA reportedly trained the GR00T N1 AI model on existing datasets and synthetically generated data. For those unaware, synthetic data is artificially created using computational methods and simulations and mimics the statistical properties of real-world data. The…
Google has unveiled a new AI processor, the seventh generation of its custom TPU architecture. The chip, known as Ironwood, was reportedly designed for the emerging needs of Google’s most powerful Gemini models, like simulated reasoning, which Google prefers to call “thinking.” The company claims this chip represents a major shift that will unlock more powerful agentic AI capabilities. Google calls this the “age of inference.” Whenever Google talks about the capabilities of a new Gemini version, it notes that the model’s capabilities are tied not only to the code but to Google’s infrastructure. Its custom AI hardware is a…
Commercial robotaxi company Waymo held a launch event in Japan last week, as the company prepares to enter early manual testing on its first international roads. After Waymo shared plans to start testing vehicles in Japan in December, the Google-owned firm detailed the launch event in a press release on Monday. The event featured officials from project partners GO, a taxi platform, and Nihon Kotsu, the largest taxi company in Tokyo, along with featuring one of the company’s camera-, lidar-, and radar-outfitted Jaguar I-Pace units, expected to begin manual testing around Tokyo in the weeks to come. Ichiro Kawanabe, Board…
Solve Intelligence, a genAI-driven IP startup, has gained $12m in Series A funding from: 20VC (lead), Microsoft (via Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Thomson Reuters (via Thomson Reuters Ventures), Y Combinator, and others. The platform helps inventors, in-house IP teams, and outside legal counsels ‘with every part of the patent process, e.g. harvesting invention disclosures, drafting patent applications, responding to office actions, freedom to operate analysis, claim charting, licensing, litigation’, they explained. They have built evaluations and algorithms to bridge the gap between the output from off-the-shelf AI models such as ChatGPT and professional-grade legal content, they added. Customers include DLA Piper…
TL;DR: CIOs face mounting pressure to adopt agentic AI — but skipping steps leads to cost overruns, compliance gaps, and complexity you can’t unwind. This post outlines a smarter, staged path to help you scale AI with control, clarity, and confidence. AI leaders are under immense pressure to implement solutions that are both cost-effective and secure. The challenge lies not only in adopting AI but also in keeping pace with advancements that can feel overwhelming. This often leads to the temptation to dive headfirst into the latest innovations to stay competitive. However, jumping straight into complex multi-agent systems without a…
Earlier this year, we made the best of Google AI available across all our commercial Workspace plans. Including advanced AI capabilities in core Workspace plans isn’t just a feature update; it’s our belief in action. AI is essential, and its power belongs in the hands of every business and every employee. We’re committed to practical innovation that delivers tangible value, day in and day out.Businesses, large and small, have responded by putting AI to work for them: Gemini in Workspace now provides business users with more than 2 billion AI assists every month, helping people save time and get more…