Google research points to a post-query future for search intent

Google signals search’s next phase: small multimodal models on devices infer intent from behavior before a query is ever ...

Google’s New User Intent Extraction Method

Google's new user intent extraction research shows the direction they're taking for the next generation of on-device AI ...
Reuters

Zara turns to AI to generate fashion imagery using real-life models

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Zara has become the latest fast-fashion retailer to use AI to help create new images of real models in different outfits, speeding up the production process as part of an ...
Singularity Hub

Hugging Face Says AI Models With Reasoning Use 30x More Energy on Average

It's not news to anyone that there are concerns about AI’s rising energy bill. But a new analysis shows the latest reasoning models are substantially more energy intensive than previous generations, ...
VentureBeat

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 with hybrid MoE and Mamba-Transformer to drive efficient agentic AI

Nvidia launched the new version of its frontier models, Nemotron 3, by leaning in on a model architecture that the world’s most valuable company said offers more accuracy and reliability for agents.
TechCrunch

AWS launches new Nova AI models and a service that gives customers more control

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a slate of new homegrown AI models and a service for enterprise customers to build their own custom versions. The cloud provider launched Nova 2, a fleet of four new ...
Wall Street Journal

An AI Startup Looks Toward the Post-Transformer Era

Most of the worries about an AI bubble involve investments in businesses that built their large language models and other forms of generative AI on the concept of the transformer, an innovative type ...
9to5Mac

Apple’s new Siri will secretly use Google Gemini models behind the scenes

Via Mark Gurman, Apple has landed on its strategy for the new Siri update coming as soon as iOS 26.4 in the spring of next year. Behind the scenes, much of the new Siri experience will use Google ...
Wall Street Journal

Large Language Models Get All the Hype, but Small Models Do the Real Work

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.
CNBC

OpenAI introduces safety models that other sites can use to classify harms

OpenAI announced two so-called open-weight reasoning models. Developers can use the models to classify a range of online safety harms based on their specific policy needs. OpenAI developed the models ...
marktechpost

How to Build a Fully Functional Computer-Use Agent that Thinks, Plans, and Executes Virtual Actions Using Local AI Models

In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using a local open-weight model. We create a miniature simulated desktop, ...