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TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings

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On Thursday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported record fourth-quarter earnings and said it expects AI chip demand to continue for years. During an earnings call, CEO C.C. Wei told investors that while he cannot predict the semiconductor industry’s long-term trajectory, he remains bullish on AI. TSMC manufactures chips for companies including Apple, Nvidia, AMD, […]

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Google Launches TranslateGemma, Takes On ChatGPT Translate

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Google on January 15, announced TranslateGemma, a new suite of open translation models built on Gemma 3, to support text translation across 55 languages.  The models are available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes and are intended for use across mobile, local, and cloud environments, the company said. According to Google, TranslateGemma offers higher

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Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

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On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, expanding its effort to charge major tech companies for using Wikipedia content to train the AI models that power AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. While these same companies previously scraped Wikipedia without permission, the deals mean

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Google Launches Market Access Programme to Scale Indian AI startups

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Google has announced a new market access initiative and two open-source AI models to support Indian startups from early-stage development to global scale at the Google AI Startups Conclave held in the national capital. Google Market Access Program aims to help Indian AI startups transition from pilot projects to long-term enterprise contracts. “Indian startups are

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Gemini Introduces Personal Intelligence to Connect Gmail, Photos and Other Google Apps

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Google has introduced Personal Intelligence, a new feature for its AI assistant Gemini, which allows users to connect their Google apps—such as Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and Search—to receive more context-aware responses.  Access to Personal Intelligence will roll out over the next week to eligible Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in the US.

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Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

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Google has toyed with personalized answers in Gemini, but that was just a hint of what was to come. Today, the company is announcing extensive “personal intelligence” in Gemini that allows the chatbot to connect to Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to craft more useful answers to your questions. If you don’t want Gemini to

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Google Updates MedGemma With Imaging Support, Launches MedASR for Clinical Dictation

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Google has released MedGemma 1.5, an updated version of its open healthcare-focused AI model. The company said the model expands support for CT scans, MRI and histopathology, and also introduced MedASR, a medical speech-to-text system for clinical dictation and healthcare workflows. Both models are available via the AI community Hugging Face and Google Cloud’s AI

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Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

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On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he plans to integrate Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks later this month. During remarks at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas reported by The Guardian, Hegseth said the integration would place “the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department.”

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Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

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On Tuesday Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local property tax reductions. As demand for generative AI services has increased over the past year, Big Tech companies have been racing to spin up massive new

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Google’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling

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Google’s Veo video AI made stunning leaps in fidelity in 2025, and Google isn’t stopping in 2026. The company has announced an update for Veo 3.1 that adds new capabilities when you provide the model with reference material, known as Ingredients to Video. The results should be more consistent, and output supports vertical video and

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