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Getty Images will place its vast archive of licensed visual content directly inside ChatGPT. The Getty Images Newsroom announces that a new display agreement with OpenAI will embed Getty’s images into the search and discovery experiences of the chatbot. The deal aims to make AI-powered visual answers richer and more reliable. Under the partnership, users …
Seattle startup Gradial has raised $65 million in Series C funding to fuel its vision of a unified AI operating system for enterprise marketing, Kerry Flynn reports for Axios. The company builds AI agents that automate workflows across the dozens of specialized tools large marketing teams already rely on, including Adobe, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Databricks. …
Anthropic has released a major update to Claude Design, its AI-powered design tool that attracted more than one million users in its first week after launching in April. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the overhaul targets three problems that limited the tool’s usefulness: excessive token consumption, a lack of brand control, and a disconnect …
Google has significantly upgraded the AI avatar features in its video creation tool Google Vids. A post in Google Workspace Updates explains that the changes include more preset avatars, broader language support, and new ways to control custom avatars in generated video clips. The number of preset avatars has grown from 23 to 53. The …
Amazon Web Services has announced a new set of tools designed to give AI agents better access to company data. The centerpiece is AWS Context, a knowledge graph service that automatically maps relationships across an organization’s data and improves over time based on how agents actually use it. Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat that …
Adobe has significantly expanded its Firefly creative platform with agentic AI capabilities, bringing an AI assistant that can execute multi-step creative workflows into both its standalone Firefly studio and its core Creative Cloud applications. The company reports that Firefly AI Assistant, powered by Adobe’s creative agent, is now in public beta across Premiere Pro, Photoshop, …
The Netherlands is building its own large language model, independent of major American AI providers. TNO writes that the project, called GPT-NL, is being developed by research institute TNO together with SURF and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). The Dutch government has allocated €13.5 million to the initiative through the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. The project …
Huawei has unveiled HarmonyOS 7, a major update to its mobile operating system that connects users to more than 2,000 specialised AI agents. Iris Dengin reports for the South China Morning Post that the company positions the release as its entry into what it calls the “agent era.” Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s Consumer …
Apple has launched a significantly improved version of its Siri voice assistant, powered by AI and built on Google’s Gemini models. Allison Johnson reports for The Verge that the new Siri can handle practical, everyday tasks that earlier versions consistently failed to deliver. What the new Siri can do Johnson tested these features herself and …
Google has released DiffusionGemma, an experimental open AI model that takes a fundamentally different approach to generating text. Brendan O’Donoghue and Sebastian Flennerhag write for Google’s blog The Keyword that the model can produce text up to four times faster than conventional large language models on dedicated GPUs. It is available under an Apache 2.0 …