AI & Machine Learning

Visa has unveiled a suite of six AI-powered services targeting the credit card dispute process, deploying generative AI for automated merchant representment and predictive models for issuer decision support as global dispute volumes reach 106 million annually, up 35 percent since 2019.

A Caltech spinout backed by Khosla Ventures has released a family of fully 1-bit language models under Apache 2.0 that compress an 8-billion-parameter model to 1.15 GB while matching full-precision rivals on standard benchmarks.

Google DeepMind shipped four Gemma 4 model variants on April 2 under the OSI-approved Apache 2.0 license, replacing the restrictive Gemma Terms of Use and removing all barriers to commercial deployment, modification, and redistribution.

Google's new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model brings acoustic awareness, doubled context length, and tool-use capabilities to real-time voice AI, rolling out globally via Gemini Live and Search Live.

Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude both ship tools to import rival chatbot data, signaling that user lock-in is now a front in the AI platform war.

Nearly 3,000 unpublished assets exposed through an unsecured content management system reveal Anthropic's next-generation AI model and its own warnings about its offensive cyber capabilities.

Google's AI design tool gains voice commands, multi-screen generation, and developer tool integrations, triggering a two-day selloff in Figma shares.

A new Extensions system in iOS 27 will let users route Siri queries to Claude, Gemini, and other third-party AI services, replacing the current ChatGPT-only arrangement.

Nvidia open-sources a 30B mixture-of-experts model that activates only 3B parameters yet matches DeepSeek's 671B model on olympiad-level math and coding benchmarks.

The French AI startup ships its first text-to-speech model under open weights, offering enterprises voice cloning from three seconds of audio and 70-millisecond latency across nine languages.

Google Research unveils TurboQuant, a training-free compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by 6x and boosts inference throughput up to 8x, sending SK Hynix and Samsung shares down 5-6 percent.

OpenAI discontinues its Sora video generation app, ends a three-year Disney licensing deal, and redirects compute to a new model codenamed Spud ahead of a potential IPO.