AI creative tools startup Krea has released the weights of its new image generation model Krea 2 as two public downloads: Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that both models are available on Hugging Face and target a growing frustration in creative industries: AI-generated imagery that looks generic, predictable, …
Google has built computer use directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, its latest AI model. Mateo Quiros writes for The Keyword, Google’s official blog, that the capability was previously only available as a separate standalone model. It is now integrated into the main Flash model, making it accessible to a much broader range of developers and …
Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a product that places its AI model inside Slack as a permanent, shared team member. Unlike earlier AI integrations, Claude Tag is not a chatbot that answers individual questions. It participates in channels, remembers past conversations, takes on tasks autonomously, and proactively flags information it considers relevant. The product is …
Mistral AI announces the release of OCR 4, a document extraction model that goes beyond converting pages into plain text. The new model returns structured output including bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores for every extracted element. What OCR 4 actually does Traditional OCR tools extract text. OCR 4 also identifies where each …
Samsung Electronics is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to a large portion of its global workforce. OpenAI writes that the agreement covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all employees in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. The company describes the deployment as one of its largest enterprise launches ever. Samsung plans to …
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. …
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 …
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 …
A new survey by device management company Jamf finds that companies using artificial intelligence extensively are significantly more likely to experience security incidents tied to that use. The survey polled 687 IT professionals and highlights a growing gap between how fast organizations adopt AI and how well they can govern it. Nearly three quarters of …
Google has released Gemma 4 12B, an open-weights multimodal AI model designed to run entirely on a standard laptop with 16 GB of VRAM or unified memory. The model is available now for free download and marks a notable step toward powerful AI that operates offline, without sending data to the cloud. The model is …