Google is formally turning Chrome right into a playground for AI brokers. For years, AI ‘browsers’ have relied on a messy course of: taking screenshots of internet sites, working them by means of imaginative and prescient fashions, and guessing the place to click on. This technique is sluggish, breaks simply, and consumes large quantities of compute. Google has launched a greater manner: the Internet Mannequin Context Protocol (WebMCP). Introduced alongside the Early Preview Program (EPP), this protocol permits web sites to speak on to AI fashions. As a substitute of the AI ‘guessing’ learn how to use a web site,…
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Hollywood organizations are pushing again in opposition to a brand new AI video mannequin referred to as Seedance 2.0, which they are saying has rapidly turn out to be a software for “blatant” copyright infringement. ByteDance, the Chinese language firm that not too long ago finalized a deal to promote TikTok’s U.S. operations (it retains a stake within the new three way partnership), launched Seedance 2.0 earlier this week. According to the Wall Street Journal, the up to date mannequin is presently obtainable to Chinese language customers of ByteDance’s Jianying app, and the corporate says it can quickly be obtainable…
The Division of Homeland Safety has been growing stress on tech corporations to determine the homeowners of social media accounts that criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to The New York Times. This echoes different latest reporting, with Bloomberg pointing to five cases through which Homeland Safety sought to determine the homeowners of nameless Instagram accounts, with the division withdrawing its subpoenas after the homeowners sued. And a Washington Post story described Homeland Safety’s rising use of administrative subpoenas — which don’t require the approval of a decide — to focus on People. Now the NYT says a follow…
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “extra unhinged,” in keeping with a former worker who spoke to The Verge about current departures from Musk’s AI firm. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is buying xAI (which beforehand acquired his social media firm X), not less than 11 engineers and two co-founders mentioned they’re leaving the corporate. Some mentioned they’re departing to start out one thing new, and Musk himself advised that is a part of an effort to arrange xAI extra successfully. However two sources who left the corporate (not less than one in…
A lot of Silicon Valley has spent years chasing mega-rounds and buzzy AI offers. In the meantime, Stacy Brown-Philpot is operating Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to enterprise capital’s earlier days, writing smaller Sequence A and B checks to founders that bigger companies routinely overlook. The previous TaskRabbit CEO and decade-long Google veteran launched Cherryrock a 12 months in the past after seeing what she calls a persistent hole: entry to capital for “underinvested entrepreneurs” constructing software program corporations on the essential progress stage. “After I left TaskRabbit, I took a while off to determine what was subsequent and noticed…
On this tutorial, we construct a self-organizing reminiscence system for an agent that goes past storing uncooked dialog historical past and as a substitute constructions interactions into persistent, significant data models. We design the system in order that reasoning and reminiscence administration are clearly separated, permitting a devoted element to extract, compress, and manage data. On the similar time, the primary agent focuses on responding to the person. We use structured storage with SQLite, scene-based grouping, and abstract consolidation, and we present how an agent can preserve helpful context over lengthy horizons with out counting on opaque vector-only retrieval. import…
A lot has modified for Jenny Wang, the founder who’s bringing “Clueless” vogue tech to life. Final yr, her firm, Alta, raised $11 million in a spherical led by Menlo Ventures to let customers create digital closets and check out on their garments with their very own digital avatars. It’s a tech as soon as seen solely in motion pictures, most notably in “Clueless,” the place Cher types and plans her outfits utilizing laptop know-how. Alta is just like that, permitting customers to plan and elegance outfits utilizing the most recent AI improvements. A slew of massive names participated in…
On Saturday, designer Kate Barton will unveil her newest assortment at New York Style Week — with a twist, after all. Barton teamed up with Fiducia AI to create a multilingual AI agent (constructed with IBM Watsonx on IBM Cloud) to assist visitors determine items of the gathering and take a look at them on just about. TechCrunch caught up with Barton and Ganesh Harinath, the founder and CEO of Fiducia AI, earlier than the present to study extra in regards to the presentation. For one, Barton stated know-how is baked into how she thinks. She likes enjoying with the…
India has cleared a $1.1 billion state-backed enterprise capital program that may channel authorities cash into startups by means of personal buyers, doubling down on its effort to finance high-risk areas resembling synthetic intelligence, superior manufacturing and different sectors broadly referred to by the trade as deep tech. First outlined within the January 2025 price range speech by India’s finance minister, the ₹100 billion fund gained cupboard approval this week (greater than a yr after the speech), permitting the federal government to maneuver forward with deployment. A earlier iteration of this system, launched in 2016, dedicated ₹100 billion to 145…
Meta plans so as to add facial recognition to its good glasses as quickly as this yr, in accordance with a brand new report from The New York Times. The characteristic, internally often known as “Title Tag,” would enable good glasses wearers to determine individuals and get details about them by Meta’s AI assistant. Meta’s plans may change, the report notes. The tech large has been deliberating since early final yr on find out how to launch a characteristic that carries “security and privateness dangers.” In accordance with an inner memo, the corporate had initially deliberate to launch Title Tag…