MADISON, Wis. (Gray) – The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill Tuesday to regulate the state’s growing artificial intelligence data center industry. The bill moved quickly through the Statehouse, receiving a vote less than two weeks after being introduced. The bill passed 53-44, largely along partisan lines, with Democrats opposing it. “This bill balances the strategic…
A view of the TSMC Global R&D center in Hsinchu, Taiwan on April 15, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters Thursday offered markets a rare respite from the incessant geopolitical upheavals. Yet the week’s headlines still reflect broader global dynamics. Case in point: Taiwan’s $250 billion investment in chip production in the United States, which is…
The Industrial Revolution marked the beginning of a monumental shift from manual production to mechanical production powered by steam engines. Decades later, Henry Ford invented the assembly line, dramatically reducing the cost of a Model T and putting car ownership within reach of the average American. But Anduril founder Palmer Luckey believes production can go…
Something weird just happened on the Internet. In less than a week, 1.4 million AI agents have created their own social network. Not for us, for themselves. They post, argue, create memes, complain about their human owners, and debate existential questions. The platform is called Moltbook. Humans can watch but not participate. Only AI machines…
The chart shows the latest update on the number of seats won by the ruling bloc (red) and the opposition (blue). The ruling camp had 235 seats before the elections, and the opposition had 230. A total of 233 seats are needed to obtain a majority in the 465-seat House. TOKYO – Team Mirai, Japan’s…
AI chatbots can answer questions and summarize documents, but they are still designed for one user at a time. Now a new startup called Humans& is betting that coordination, not conversation, is the next major frontier in artificial intelligence. Founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Google DeepMind, the three-month-old company just raised…
SoundHound AI (NasdaqGM:SOUN) has partnered with Bridgepointe Technologies to expand enterprise use of its AI agents and IT automation platforms. The partnership targets Bridgepointe’s more than 12,000 enterprise customers in industries including hospitality, automotive and retail. The collaboration focuses on the deployment of SoundHound’s Amelia 7 AI agent for customer interaction and its Autonomics platform…
As Vermont students complete their midyear exams, school districts continue to reevaluate and develop guidelines regarding artificial intelligence inside and outside of the classroom. Five students from South Burlington and Stowe tell NBC5 they sometimes or never use AI in their learning. “Out of the four years I was at Stowe High School, this was…
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Today we are launching Voxtral Transcribe 2, two next-generation speech-to-text models delivering industry-leading transcription quality, diarization, and ultra-low latency. The family includes Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription and Voxtral Realtime for live applications. Voxtral Realtime is open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. We’re also launching an audio playground in Mistral Studio to test…