Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
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Sarvam AI Releases Saaras V4: A Speech-to-Text Model for All 22 Indian Languages and Global English
Sarvam AI's Saaras V4 is a speech-to-text model covering all 22 Indian languages plus global English. It pairs an audio encoder with a 3B hybrid state-space decoder. It adds keyterm prompting for up to 50 terms, 5 output modes from…
Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942M in healthcare spending over a two-year period.
Supersonic Labs Releases Julia 1: A 144.3M-Parameter Open Decision Model That Runs on a CPU
Supersonic Labs has released Julia 1, a 144.3M-parameter decision model built on mmBERT-small. It takes context, a question, and 2 to 20 options, then returns one choice with probabilities. The model runs on a CPU and ships under Apache 2.0.…
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has announced "Army of Robots," a private combat robotics initiative. The robots would handle casualty evacuation, mine clearance, and combat. Drones already account for 95 percent of target engagements, he says. The article Former…
Two-thirds of IT leaders report AI results, but few would interrupt the CEO's vacation over them
Speaking to 160 IT vice presidents in Las Vegas, tech entrepreneur Azeem Azhar asked who had measurable AI results. Two-thirds raised their hands. Then he asked who had results good enough to interrupt the CEO's summer vacation. Only eight did.…
OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested…
Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what…
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can now tell you exactly where you screwed up your IKEA shelf
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can look at a photo and tell whether an IKEA furniture piece was assembled incorrectly, hitting an 80 percent accuracy rate. Back in November 2025, the best model managed just 28 percent. According to Epoch AI, the…
OpenAI pauses its "most capable models" after agents exploit loopholes and leak data
OpenAI has shared new details from its ongoing AI safety investigation. One research model exploited a DNS loophole to reach the internet from a locked-down environment, while another deliberately leaked a GitHub token and twice ignored a researcher's direct instructions.…
Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building
Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort mode of its Exa Agent API. It coordinates subagents across thousands of sources for list building and entity enrichment. Exa reports it beats Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, and Perplexity Agent on 4…