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NurPhoto / Getty Images Amazon’s new agentic AI team will reportedly be housed at Lab126, a research and development unit Amazon has launched a new team focused on the development of agentic AI for its robotics division, according to reports. The team will be housed at Lab126, the Amazon R&D unit responsible for the Kindle e-reader, Fire TV products, and Echo devices, according to CNBC and Reuters. Agentic AI, unlike more straightforward tools like chatbots, is designed to handle complex tasks assigned by users, sometimes with little human interaction required. Amazon (AMZN) reportedly has assembled a research and development (R&D)…

Google on Thursday announced an update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model that the company claims is better at certain programming tasks. The company’s calling it an “updated preview,” building on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro that Google announced around a month ago. Google says the model will roll out in general availability in a “couple of weeks,” and is available starting today in its AI developer platforms AI Studio and Vertex AI and the Gemini app. Image Credits:Google “[Gemini 2.5 Pro] continues to excel at coding, leading on difficult coding benchmarks,” Google writes in a blog post.…

(Bloomberg) — Alphabet Inc.’s Sundar Pichai said his company will keep expanding its engineering ranks at least into 2026, stressing human talent remains key even as Google’s parent ramps up AI investments. Most Read from Bloomberg Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, Pichai said he will continue to invest in engineering in the near future. US tech leaders like Microsoft Corp. have trimmed more staff this year, reflecting in part the enormous investments needed to ensure leadership in AI. The firings have stoked fears about the technology replacing certain job functions. Google itself has conducted rounds of…

HAMLET, N.C. (AP) — Amazon plans to invest $10 billion toward building a campus in North Carolina to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure, bringing a massive shot in the arm to a region where many textile and apparel jobs dried up a generation ago. Amazon said Wednesday that its investment in rural Richmond County should create at least 500 jobs and support thousands more through construction and data center supply chain providers, according to statements from the company and Gov. Josh Stein’s office. Stein called the investment one of the largest in state history. Data centers are…

(Bloomberg) — Reddit Inc. sued artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, saying it has used the social media company’s content without permission to train its AI models. Most Read from Bloomberg The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Anthropic attempted to access Reddit data more than 100,000 times since last July. Reddit said this “unauthorized commercial use of its content” has breached its rules and exploited users’ personal data without their consent. An Anthropic spokesperson said the company disagrees “with Reddit’s claims and will defend ourselves vigorously,” The AI firm, which was started by a group…

Social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so, and “intentionally trained on the personal data of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent.” Anthropic didn’t immediately return a request for comment Wednesday. The claim was filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco. “AI companies should not be allowed to scrape information and content from people without clear limitations…

In 2023, co-founders Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani sold their expense management startup Expensya to Swedish procurement software firm Medius in what is widely considered to be one of the largest acquisitions of an African startup. Some sources say the sum was just over $120 million, although deal terms were not disclosed. Success achieved, both founders swore off entrepreneurship, never intending to do another startup again and Jouini became a CTO role in the merged software company, with other acquisitions spanning three continents. But the pull of a new technological wave – generative AI – and the thought that they…

In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady on IBM’s new Manhattan HQ. The big story: Trump complains Xi is ‘extremely hard to make a deal with’. The markets: Up despite China deal and metals tariffs drama. Analyst notes from Convera, EY, and UBS. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. Is IBM cool again? During a NY Tech Week reception last night at IBM’s new Manhattan headquarters, I quietly asked that question to some attendees. One person cited Watson, the early chatbot that famously won Jeopardy! in 2011, as proof of both the company’s pioneering innovation, and its ability…

TikTok is rolling out AI-powered Smart Keyword Filters to allow people to limit content they don’t want to see on their For You page, the company announced on Tuesday. While TikTok already allows users to use keyword filters to restrict specific content from appearing in their feeds, the new Smart Keyword Filters will use AI to additionally limit content that contains similar keywords, such as synonyms. The tool will show you which additional keywords are being filtered in addition to your original one. For example, if you choose to filter out “remodeling,” TikTok will also filter out “renovation” and “renovations.”…

Meta’s deal to help revive an Illinois nuclear power plant was one way of signaling that the parent company of Facebook and Instagram is preparing for a future built with artificial intelligence. Meta’s 20-year deal with Constellation Energy follows similar maneuvers from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, but it will take years before nuclear energy can meet the tech industry’s insatiable demand for new sources of electricity. AI uses vast amounts of energy, much of which comes from burning fossil fuels, which causes climate change. The unexpected popularity of generative AI products over the past few years has disrupted many tech…