MTA Is Trying To Use Smartphone AI To Spot Dangerous Subway Tracks The MTA partnered with Google to experiment with more efficient and cost-effective ways to inspect tracks

The high stakes for AI Alexa Amazon has been trying to make virtual assistants happen for more than a decade. Alexa is, by many definitions, wildly successful, but it has so far failed to become the kind of omnipresent, omnipotent helper the company imagines. (It has also, by all accounts, failed to become a compelling business for Amazon.) This week, though,

Dell forecasts $15 billion of AI server sales this year Dell said that it sold about $10 billion of AI-optimized servers in its fiscal 2025, and expects to sell about $15 billion in AI system sales this year.

Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Meta’s upcoming AI app advances CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to make his company the leader in AI by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said.

MediaTek Introduces M90 5G-Advanced Modem with AI and 12Gbps Peak Speed submitted by /u/MishaalRahman

AI Search Optimization: Data Finds Brand Mentions Improve Visibility via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern A study reveals new insight into how often AI search engines cite sources, and which websites receive the most citations. The post AI Search Optimization: Data Finds Brand Mentions Improve Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Meta to Release Standalone AI App to Compete With ChatGPT Facebook parent company Meta is planning to release a standalone AI app that would compete with products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot, reports CNBC. The upcoming AI app will join Meta’s other apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Recent news has also suggested that Meta could soon release a Reels …

Consensus EasyA Hackathon Winners: AI Agents, Gaming, Trading, Payments, NFT Platforms Hackathon for Consensus Hong Kong brought out some of the most innovative the early stage projects that could drive the Web3 world forward.

Coinbase, NEAR, Others Form Alliance to Develop Open AI Services The Open Agents Alliance (OAA) consists of NEAR AI, the payments and AI arms of crypto exchange Coinbase and an array of other blockchain and AI projects.

Meta’s AI chatbot will soon have a standalone app Meta is planning to launch a dedicated app for its AI chatbot, according to a report from CNBC. The Verge can also confirm that Meta is working on the standalone app. The new app could launch in the second quarter of this year, CNBC says, joining the growing number of standalone AI apps, including OpenAI’s

Olas’ Mech Marketplace Enables AI Agents to Hire Each Other for Help Crypto and AI firm Olas is making it easier for AI agents to collaborate.

OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model OpenAI is launching GPT-4.5 today, its newest and largest model. GPT-4.5 will be available as a research preview, and OpenAI is calling it the company’s “largest and most knowledgeable model yet,” but warning that it’s not a frontier model and might not perform as well as o1 or o3-mini. GPT-4.5 will have better writing capabilities,

OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology for ‘Natural Conversation’ The new technology, called GPT-4.5, signifies the end of an era for OpenAI.

Here’s your first look at a powerful new AI feature coming to Google Translate submitted by /u/MishaalRahman

Trump Shares AI Video of Gaza as Luxury Resort, Drawing Scorn One scene from the video, whose origins are unclear, shows President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sitting shirtless at a pool with drinks. Hamas condemned it as “disgraceful.”

Yet another insane video generation AI model, ByteDance Goku. How good is it? ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, has just introduced Goku, a new AI model that can generate high-quality videos from text prompts, animate images, and create ultra-smooth visuals. Some are already comparing it to OpenAI’s Sora, but what really makes Goku stand out is that it’s open-source—allowing developers to tweak and improve it. This co…

Alibaba makes AI video generation model free to use globally Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.

Amazon unveils revamped Alexa with AI features for $19.99 per month, free for Prime members Amazon has been working for years to overhaul Alexa with generative AI features as it faced rising competition from OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other chatbots.

Nvidia sales grow 78% on AI demand, company gives strong guidance Nvidia reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. The company also provided strong guidance for the current quarter.

Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech’s AI Boom The Silicon Valley company, which dominates the market for chips needed to build A.I. systems, said revenue was up 78 percent from a year earlier.