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Ford's new electric truck, 'Fathom,' starts at $28,350

Due in "fall 2027," Ford said Thursday that it won't reveal what Fathom looks like until early next year.

Ford Picks "Fathom" for Its Affordable Truck Name, Starts at $28,350

Deliveries of the new electric pickup are slated for later next year.

An African vision of artificial intelligence

What would African artificial intelligence (AI) look like? Olubayo Adekanmbi, a Nigerian entrepreneur, reels off ideas: as fluent in African languages as in English; as comfortable with speech as with text; and lean, so it can flourish where chips are scarce and internet patchy. By contrast, frontier labs in Silicon Valley train gargantuan models on English-heavy datasets. “The current gameplay for AI globally is completely un-African,” he says.

Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI

Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development.

AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed

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Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce

The startup's platform predicts which product a shopper wants next, learns their general taste, and fine-tunes continuously based on what they do in real time.

Ford's first ultra-cheap EV is called Fathom, a full-featured truck for $28,350

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Europe must create an AI money-mobilisation machine

Talented researchers and entrepreneurs have built a dynamic start-up ecosystem that deserves to be magnified

Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings

The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.

GTA VI is getting an ‘extended look’ at the end of August

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Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform

The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million.

Now Meta’s AI agents are going rogue.

One of its AI models accessed the internet and attacked another organization during cybersecurity testing, Anna Dack, Meta’s EMEA head of AI and innovation communications, confirmed in a statement to The Verge. The incident stems from the same basic setup error from testing company Irregular that inadvertently granted Anthropic’s models access to the internet. It only adds to growing concern over the safety of frontier systems.