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This story was originally published on Automotive Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Automotive Dive newsletter. Kia is rolling out its new generative AI-powered voice recognition system called “AI Assistant” on the electric EV3 in Europe, the automaker announced in an press release April 16. The new AI Assistant allows EV3 drivers to have natural, context-aware conversations with their vehicle, which includes the ability to ask open-ended questions and learn more about various vehicle functions. The feature is activated via a steering wheel button or by speaking the phrase “Hey Kia.” Kia’s AI Assistant…

Automation Software Q4 Earnings: SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) is the Best in the Biz Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) and the best and worst performers in the automation software industry. The whole purpose of software is to automate tasks to increase productivity. Today, innovative new software techniques, often involving AI and machine learning, are finally allowing automation that has graduated from simple one- or two-step workflows to more complex processes integral to enterprises. The result…

Sooner or later, the AI industry will consolidate. Which companies among today’s AI unicorns will survive the shakeout, which will be subsumed into larger companies, and which will perish is, of course, impossible to know. But the wide-ranging views regarding the current crop of high-flying AI startups are instructive in their own right, providing a useful gauge of industry and investor expectations. A few weeks ago, we sent out a call for your predictions as to how the largest AI startups will fare over the next one to five years. And dozens of people got back to us, with some…

In light of the U.S. tariff announcements and rising economic uncertainty, I believe companies will instinctively turn to efficiency measures to weather potential disruption. And while efficiency is critical, it’s empathy—together with operational rigor—that will determine who thrives. In an era increasingly shaped by AI, the most memorable customer experiences harness the power of “and”—they are fast and human, automated and deeply personal. Being seen and understood isn’t at odds with scale. It’s what elevates it. Over the past decade, organizations have invested in technology to make customer service faster, more consistent, and less reliant on human intervention. While automated chatbots and…

On episode 828 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is celebrating Good Friday by talking with Gaia Dynamics co-founder and CEO Emil Stefanutti to talk about a tool that couldn’t have come at a better time.  With tariff turmoil causing shippers and customs brokers to scramble, Gaia has launched an AI solution for tariffs and product classifications. We’ll find out how it works and how it can save you money in a high-tariff environment. Glid is building the industry’s first autonomous road-to-rail solution. We’ll meet founder and CEO Kevin Damoa to find out how they’re getting autonomy on track. Plus, DOT…

In January, as business and government leaders descended on Davos, Switzerland, for this year’s meeting of the World Economic Forum, the prevailing wisdom was that American tech giants were winning the race for dominance in artificial intelligence while China, and indeed the whole of Asia, lagged behind. Among the assembled cognoscenti, the outlook for China’s AI companies ranged from bleak to downright dismissive. The share prices of America’s “Magnificent Seven” hovered at all-time highs while Chinese tech stocks languished, dragged down by perceptions that Beijing’s heavy-handed regulation was strangling innovation. Meanwhile, Japan and South Korea weren’t generally considered leaders in…

The jungles of Johor, the Malaysian state across the Johor Strait from Singapore, were first cleared in the 1840s by Chinese clans from Singapore seeking more space to grow black pepper. In the next century, under British rule, those pepper farms gave way to vast plantations of rubber and oil palm trees. On many of those same sites today, Johor is cultivating a new kind of cash crop: data centers meant to feed the world’s voracious appetite for artificial intelligence. Johor’s data center boom, like the shift to growing pepper, is partly a function of scarcity in Singapore. The tiny…

Good morning! Checkr cofounder and CEO Daniel Yanisse wants his employees to use AI. And to help them along, he’s decided to pick up the check on however they choose to experiment with the new technology. All of the background check company’s more than 750 employees have the ability to test AI tools at their own leisure, and expense the costs. Yanisse tells Fortune workers can spend up to $300 per month, although there’s no official limit. So far, he says employees have used and expensed AI tools like Cursor for code testing, and Replit and Lovable for app building.…

The Coramino Fund, an investment arm from the tequila brand co-founded by comedian Kevin Hart, is now accepting applications for its latest round of $10,000 grants. Grantees will also receive AI training to help address the divide that exists between larger businesses and smaller operations run by people from marginalized communities. The three-year-old Coramino Fund, an investment arm from Kevin Hart and Juan Domingo Beckmann’s Gran Coramino Tequila, announced Thursday that applications are now open for its latest round of grants aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses from under-resourced communities. As part of the deal, grantees will receive $10,000 to…

SoundHound AI, Domo, Plug Power, Corcept, and 8×8 Shares Are Falling, What You Need To Know A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a cautious stance on future monetary policy decisions during a speech in Chicago, emphasizing that trade tariffs could add upward pressure to inflation in the short term and complicate the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy. He warned that such trade measures are “likely to move us further away from our goals,” referring to the Fed’s dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment. The comments did little…