ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski says voice is emerging as the primary way people will interact with AI, as models combine speech with reasoning and agentic capabilities.
Google’s AI chatbot Gemini surpassed 750 million monthly active users, highlighting rapid adoption following recent product updates. The growth was disclosed in Alphabet’s latest earnings.
Accor has integrated its ALL Accor booking and loyalty experience directly into ChatGPT, enabling AI-driven hotel discovery and trip planning. The launch expands Accor’s digital reach.
Amazon’s AI Studio aims to accelerate movie and TV production using artificial intelligence while keeping creators involved at every stage. A closed beta begins in March.
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs raised $500 million in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $11 billion and signaling expansion beyond voice.
A new platform called Rent a Human allows AI agents to outsource tasks to real people when automation falls short, highlighting an unusual hybrid model of human-in-the-loop labor.
Claude AI will remain ad-free, Anthropic says, ensuring conversations are unbiased and focused on productivity, while revenue comes from subscriptions and enterprise contracts.
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready dismissed engineers who built an internal tool to track company layoffs, citing privacy violations and obstruction of company operations.
Intel said it will begin producing graphics processing units, signaling a strategic push into a market led by Nvidia and central to AI computing.
Accel has led a $5.7 million seed round in Fibr AI, a startup using autonomous AI agents to personalize enterprise websites in real time.
Lotus Health AI raised $35 million to expand its AI-powered primary care platform, which combines large language models with licensed physicians to deliver medical care nationwide.
Barnsley has been named the UK’s first “Tech Town,” becoming a national testbed for how artificial intelligence can be embedded across public services, education, and local businesses.
Fieldguide, an agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms, has raised $75 million in Series C funding as demand accelerates for automation and workflow intelligence in professional services.
Siemens Energy plans to spend $1 billion expanding manufacturing and services in the United States, targeting surging demand for power generation equipment driven by data centers, electrification, and grid upgrades.
OpenAI has introduced the Codex app for macOS, a new desktop interface designed to help developers manage multiple AI agents in parallel and supervise long-running software projects more effectively.