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Amazon introduces Vulcan: an AI-powered warehouse robot with a sense of touch
Online retailer titan Amazon.com Inc. today unveiled a new warehouse robot during its Delivering the Future event in Dortmund, Germany, named Vulcan, the company said represents a “fundamental leap forward in robotics.” Vulcan brings the first robot that has a sense of touch to Amazon’s array of warehouse robots to assist workers in the company’s fulfillment ...
Signals launches cloud-based ‘AI employees’ to rethink customer engagement
Signals, a startup building an artificial intelligence-powered Cloud Employee Platform, launched today with the goal of helping companies automate client-facing interactions across sales, marketing, customer service and human resources. The company’s platform can deploy cloud-based “AI employees,” essentially AI agents, which can deploy instantly, integrate with company systems and understand business context. “It comes pretrained ...
Google enhances coding capabilities in Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview before I/O dev conference
Google LLC today rolled out an early access release of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, an updated version of the company’s artificial intelligence flagship model with significantly improved coding capabilities. Google said it intended to announce the Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview model at Google I/O 2025, the company’s upcoming annual developer conference in a couple of ...
Salesforce brings AI agents to employee support with Agentforce for HR Service
Salesforce Inc. today announced the launch of Agentforce for HR Service, a new set of artificial intelligence-powered capabilities aimed at making employee support and human resources solutions more intuitive. Although AI is transforming productivity and how people work, it can also reshape how employees interact with their company. Salesforce already has a human resources platform ...
Amazon announces Q Developer preview in GitHub for AI-powered code generation and review
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a preview for its agentic artificial intelligence software development assistant Q Developer for Microsoft Corp.’s open-source code repository GitHub. Millions of developers use GitHub daily to store vast amounts of source code for software projects as a platform for collaboration, version control and code management. The platform surpassed 150 ...
Google’s AI Mode in search just got more useful and accessible
Google LLC updated AI Mode today, the company’s newest artificial intelligence feature for search that promises to help users with more personalized answers and make it accessible to everyone. The company introduced AI Mode in March. It’s an AI chatbot that allows users to enter search queries. While similar to AI Overviews, the summarized versions ...
Microsoft releases small but mighty Phi-4 reasoning AI models that outperform larger models
Microsoft Corp. has released three new advanced small language models artificial intelligence models extending its “Phi” range of AI models that include reasoning capability. The new model releases Wednesday introduce Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus and Phi-4-mini-reasoning, which add a thinking capability to the models allowing them to break down complex queries and reason through them efficiently. The model family ...
Supio raises $60M to power legal analysis with generative AI
Seattle-based legal artificial intelligence startup Supio today said it has raised $60 million in a Series B round to build its platform that helps lawyers organize, analyze and prepare legal cases. The round was led by existing investor Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new investors Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures. Today’s investment brings Supio’s total funding ...
Sendbird launches omnipresent proactive customer support AI agent
Sendbird Inc., an artificial intelligence communications and conversation platform, today announced the launch of what the company calls an “omnipresent” AI agent that can handle customer service issues proactively rather than just reacting to them. “Customers don’t think in terms of channels and neither should your AI,” said Chief Executive John Kim. “They just want their ...
Meta announces standalone AI app for personalized assistance
Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a new standalone Meta AI app that houses an artificial intelligence assistant powered by the company’s Llama 4 large language model to provide a more personalized experience for users. The company said the new app is built to be more social and is designed with voice features. It has an ...