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Anthropic’s Milan office lands with Generali, Pirelli and Enel as named Italian customers

The formal opening of Anthropic’s sixth European office lands the same week as Pope Leo’s AI encyclical, with the company naming a roster of Italian enterprise deployments. nthropic formally opened its Milan office on Wednesday, the sixth European location for the US AI lab after London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich and Munich. The opening completes the […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Anthropic’s Milan office lands with Generali, Pirelli and Enel as named Italian customers

Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed — Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results.

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These new iOS 27 renders hint at Siri’s big redesign

Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul, expected to arrive in iOS 27, might look a lot like ChatGPT with a splash of Liquid Glass. Renders from Bloomberg offer a preview of iOS 27, including the new app and chat interface for Siri. The renders are "based on information viewed by Bloomberg and people with knowledge of [Apple's] plans," and could differ from Apple's final designs, which Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple will reveal at WWDC in June. The images show a new pill-shaped Siri chat bubble popping out of the Dynamic Island with a drop-down menu containing options for Ask, Siri, and ChatGPT. According to Gurman, you'll be able to open t … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; the two will explore how Replit developers can use Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; the two will explore how Replit developers can use Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; the two will explore how Replit developers can use Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol — Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit. The two companies are also exploring …

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Source: Groq is raising ~$650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team depart (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios: Source: Groq is raising up to $650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team leave — Groq is raising up to $650 million from existing investors, after the AI chipmaker previously signed a $20 billion licensing deal …

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CNN sues Perplexity over ‘verbatim’ copycat articles

CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, claiming that the startup's AI tools generate "verbatim" copies of its work, as reported earlier by CNN. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Thursday, also alleges that Perplexity provides users with information locked behind CNN's subscription. Perplexity, which offers an AI "answer" engine along with the AI browser Comet, is accused of ignoring CNN's efforts "to recognize or block Perplexity's unidentified crawlers" from scraping its content. "Human beings report, research, write, edit, and create the content that Perplexity takes without permission or compensation," the lawsuit claims. I … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Rivian’s software chief thinks you don’t need CarPlay or buttons

Today, I’m talking with Wassym Bensaid, the chief software officer at Rivian, and the co-CEO of Rivian’s platform joint venture with Volkswagen, which everyone just calls RV Tech. That joint venture kicked off about a year and a half ago with a nearly $6 billion investment from Volkswagen. It effectively puts Wassym in charge of the operating system and electrical architecture for every future EV from Volkswagen and its associated brands, including familiar names like Audi, but also new companies like Scout. There’s a lot of Decoder ideas in there — I really wanted to know how that joint venture works and how it’s structured to preserve Rivian’s unique software culture, which you’ll hear Wassym talk about as the core element of the whole thing. I also wanted to know where the lines were — what parts of Rivian’s software get to be just for Rivian, and which parts of the core technology would be shared across the smaller company and the behemoth that is Volkswagen Group. And, of course, I wanted to understand how Wassym navigated the tension between the two. You know, classic Decoder bait. Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Decoder wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. It’s also a big moment for Rivian in general right now. The company is gearing up to deliver the more affordable Rivian R2, which is the first vehicle based on this new architecture, and the company also just shipped the AI-powered Rivian Assistant in its R1 vehicles. You’ll hear Wassym talk about Assistant as the beginning of a big bet for Rivian, as it tries to create a more agentic software platform in its cars. I actually got to spend some time with the Rivian Assistant in an R1S ahead of my conversation with Wassym, and I found it to be a fascinating experience — certainly powerful and engaging while at the same time frustrating in a lot of really interesting ways. So I had a lot of feature requests, bug reports, and ques

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Israel-based web development company Wix cuts ~20% of its workforce, citing the "fast evolution of AI capabilities" and currency exchange rate difficulties (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Israel-based web development company Wix cuts ~20% of its workforce, citing the “fast evolution of AI capabilities” and currency exchange rate difficulties — Israel-based web development company Wix is slashing roughly 20% of its workforce, CEO Avishai Abrahami announced in a post …

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Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices starting from $300 and shipping in 2026, taking aim at the MacBook Neo (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices starting from $300 and shipping in 2026, taking aim at the MacBook Neo — Qualcomm has unveiled its new entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices that will begin shipping later this year on devices that cost as low as $300.

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Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing chips gives it an advantage in running AI locally, and will use a distilled Gemini model (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

Aaron Tilley / The Information: Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing chips gives it an advantage in running AI locally, and will use a distilled Gemini model — At Apple's annual developer conference next month, the star of the show will be a series of long-delayed artificial intelligence upgrades to the iPhone.

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