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Google’s Pixel 11 phone preorders come with up to $350 in gift cards
The Pixel 11 Pro in matte obsidian. | Photo: David Imel / The Verge Looking to get your hands on the latest Pixel devices? After weeks of leaks and rumors, Google has officially announced its next generation of Pixel phones and watches. The base Pixel 11 starts at $899, the Pro and Pro XL are $1,099 and $1,299 respectively, and the Pro Fold starts at $1,899. The watch comes in two sizes, with the smaller 41mm model starting at $399, and the larger 45mm model starting at $429. The phones are available for preorder now, and will ship on August 20th, 2026. If you're looking to preorder an unlocked phone on its own, your main options are Best Buy, Amazon, and directly from the Google Store. All three are runni … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital.
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't be used in "future training" of an Amazon AI model "whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video," according to a Twitch support page. Other "AI-supported" features like captions and safety tools will still function if you opt-out of generative AI training. However, if you participate in a chat on another person's stream, "their opt-out preferences govern if that chat can be used for training," Twitch … Read the full story at The Verge.
SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis
Elon Musk s company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to run.The model scores 61 on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing the popular open weights Chinese model from Moonshot, Kimi K3, and tying rival OpenAI s GPT-5.6 Sol Max and improving five points over Grok 4.5 High. Anthropic s Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5 occupy the number one and two spots, respectively. More consequential for enterprises evaluating AI agents, Grok 4.6 posts sizable gains over its predecessor across coding, terminal, knowledge-work and agent benchmarks while retaining an application programming interface (API) price starting at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, making it a mid-priced frontier model comparing leading options that are both proprietary and open source, globally, accor
SEW-EURODRIVE adds economy series to its planetary servo gear unit portfolio
SEW-EURODRIVE's new P1.G, P2.G and P3.G gear units extend its existing PxG family below the P5.G, P6.G, and P7.G precision range. The post SEW-EURODRIVE adds economy series to its planetary servo gear unit portfolio appeared first on The Robot Report.
Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5nonies] - Nature, plan, execute, synthesize: closing brick 1 with a dispatcher that reads each PDF’s nature and picks the method that fits, fitz, Docling, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, MinerU or Surya, then folds the outputs into one corpus The post Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From appeared first on Towards Data Science.
AI Auditing’s Flagship Book Couldn’t Audit an AI
Eleven leading scholars used a 2022 model, a 1970s research design, and not a single modern evalContinue reading on Medium »
Facebook officially rolls out its standalone Creator Studio app with AI tools for creators
The new app launches with Facebook's AI creator assistant built into it, providing creators with personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, audience engagement, and goals.
Claude Isn’t Trying to Replace Your Chatbot. It’s Trying to Replace Your Coworker.
A chatbot answers questions. A coworker takes a task off your plate, works on it while you re doing something else, and comes back with an Continue reading on Medium »
Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
Maybe don’t let the AI shred next time. | Image: D’Addario After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various explanations, from low-quality exports, to combinations of plugins like Autotune introducing digital noise, and the use of AI-assisted mastering tools from LANDR and Logic. But now the company has edited its original Instagram post denying the use of generative AI to say it was wrong. In a lengthy update to its post from July 29th (embedded at the bottom), it said: W … Read the full story at The Verge.
How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.
Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 3): How Backpropagation Really Works
From one gradient to every gradient The post Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 3): How Backpropagation Really Works appeared first on Towards Data Science.