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Sometimes, AI-driven restructuring goes about as well as an AI-assisted legal brief. Reutersreports that Meta spent much of this year testing a plan in which AI would take over many of the workforce’s daily tasks. Dubbed Project OT, the plan appears to connect two stories from earlier this year: Meta’s 10 percent workforce reduction and…

AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world.

Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational AI to legacy systems never built for it, says Gaurav Anand, global head of the Customer Interaction Suite at Tata Communications.

Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious new open-weight AI model launched onto OpenRouter anonymously and already topping benchmarks and leaderboards against the best models. 

Shapor Naghibzadeh learned the value of a good story in 2009 as a Google sysops engineer. When hackers backed by China set their sights on the search giant as part of an effort dubbed Operation Aurora, he was called into a hastily assembled war room to explain what exactly was going on in the company’s…

Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, but only around 20% of those with diagnosed hearing loss seek treatment. Legato, a new hearing tech company, aims to close that gap. 

As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startup Runable is betting the next opportunity lies in what comes after: finding customers and helping businesses grow. The startup has raised $21 million to expand in that direction.

Explaining a task to ChatGPT sounds simple enough until you actually try to describe all the small decisions you make as you go.

AI has made its way into the creation of music, art andliterature. Some video game development studios are now using AI tools as part of their creative methods. And that same blossoming technology is relied upon by everyday people to help them with their persian land professional challenges.

More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent study from Truecaller. Since voice is still consumers’ preferred way to communicate, that leaves a big opportunity to automate support and outreach calls using voice AI in the country. Voice AI startup Ringg, which already processes…