The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 or maybe later. But what if the answer to…
Category: AI
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AI CEOs transformed Davos into a tech conference
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional…
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OpenAI chief Sam Altman plans India visit as AI leaders converge in New Delhi: sources
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to visit India in mid-February, his first visit to the country in nearly a year, TechCrunch has learned. The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit expected to draw top executives from Meta,…
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Cracking the AI code: realizing AI’s true value in finance
Finance teams have largely moved beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption and are now focused on delivering tangible results.
In fact, our recent research shows 99% of UK finance leaders view AI as essential, with 85% of UK finance teams…
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The human paradox at the center of modern cyber resilience
Cybersecurity headlines continue to be punctuated by high-profile, highly disruptive breaches. In fact, 2025 has already seen some of the most damaging incidents on record, with organizations such as M&S and Co-Op suffering severe and costly…
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‘We don’t have any plans to do ads at the moment’ — DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Gemini will stay ad‑free as ChatGPT begins inserting ads into conversations
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has said there are no current plans to introduce ads into Gemini
- His comments contrast with OpenAI’s move to begin showing ads in ChatGPT
- Hassabis said ad-free assistants build trust
Google doubled down on…
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AI isn't delivering the gains it asked for just yet – but most bosses don't mind
Although businesses aren’t seeing returns from AI, many are moving from pilots to real-world deployments, so they must be confident.
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Gemini now offers full-length SAT practice tests — for free
- Google Gemini now offers free, full-length SAT practice tests.
- The AI provides instant feedback and personalized study plans.
- The SAT tests are built using The Princeton Review to match real exam conditions.
Google Gemini is expanding the…
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Qwen Researchers Release Qwen3-TTS: an Open Multilingual TTS Suite with Real-Time Latency and Fine-Grained Voice Control
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a family of multilingual text-to-speech models that target three core tasks in one stack, voice clone, voice design, and high quality speech generation.

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Former Sequoia partner’s new startup uses AI to negotiate your calendar for you
Kais Khimji has spent most of his professional career as a venture investor, including six years as a partner at the prominent VC firm Sequoia Capital.
But just like several other former Sequoia partners — including David Vélez, who founded…
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