What is DeerFlow 2.0 and what should enterprises know about this new, powerful local AI agent orchestrator?

ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok, last month released what may be one of the most ambitious open-source AI agent frameworks to date: DeerFlow 2.0. It's now going viral across the m [...]

Giraffe360 raises $10M Series B to expand AI property media platform

The London-based proptech, which combines a proprietary robotic camera with an AI software stack to produce a full property media kit from a single visit, has closed its Series B led by Cipio Partners [...]

The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers

The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tan [...]

Google’s AI Overviews killed 58 per cent of publisher clicks. Now it is adding a ‘Further Exploration’ section to bring some back.

Google has a publisher problem. AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that now appear at the top of search results for a growing share of queries, have been correlated with a 58 per cent reduction [...]

Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected

For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO [...]

An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.

A security startup’s autonomous AI agent found 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the open-source media library embedded in almost everything that touches video. The startup, depthfirs [...]

The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now wants to connect hundreds of millions of robots

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of VLC Media Player, has raised $5 million for his startup Kyber, an infrastructure layer for controlling remote devices in real time. The round was led by Ligh [...]

Patreon cut 20% of its staff. Its CEO insists AI isn’t replacing them.

Patreon is cutting a fifth of its staff. Its founder wants you to know it is not because of AI. On Thursday the creator-payments company laid off 93 people, about 20% of its workforce, as 404 Media fi [...]

Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness

The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The contex [...]