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Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that ships as two separate endpoints rather than one. The streaming endpoint delivers sub-second transcription but drops speaker diarization and word timestamps. The batch endpoint keeps both, at half the cost.…
On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a…
The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a 2.3B-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides and images into Markdown with HTML tables, bounding boxes and image descriptions. It runs at $1.50 per 1,000 pages through the API, or on dedicated Model…
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about…
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coalition warns of increasingly sophisticated AI attacks on critical infrastructure such as hospitals and water…
