GM is building its own in-vehicle AI assistant to go beyond Google's Gemini

The automaker says a native assistant combining conversational AI with OnStar intelligence will launch later this year [...]

Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids

Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics 2 is its most advanced vision-language-action model yet, built to control everything from tabletop robots to full-body humanoids. Gemini Robotics ER 2 adds a hig [...]

How NTT DATA AIVista closes the last mile of agentic AI for enterprise agents

Presented by NTT DATA AIVista At VB Transform 2026, NTT DATA AIVista CEO Bratin Saha joined VentureBeat CEO and editor-in-chief Matt Marshall to discuss the last-mile challenge of operationalizing fro [...]

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large lan [...]