Google on Tuesday launched Imagen 4, the latest version of its text-to-image generation technology, making it available via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. The release includes two model variants—Imagen 4 and Imagen 4 Ultra—aimed at advancing image quality and precision in AI-generated visuals.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/25/2025
Google releases an artificial intelligence model designed to run directly on robotic devices without requiring internet connectivity.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/24/2025
Amazon plans to reduce the size of its corporate workforce over the next few years as the company deepens its use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across its business, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to employees on Tuesday.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/24/2025
Pope Leo XIV has made artificial intelligence regulation a defining issue of his young papacy, warning world leaders that the technology threatens human dignity while offering unprecedented benefits to society.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/23/2025
The Linux Foundation on Monday announced it will host the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol project, an open standard originally developed by Google to support secure communication and interoperability among AI agents.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/23/2025
Our columnist offers a long list of marketplaces to help you on your Agentic journey.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- 06/20/2025
As Meta deepens its involvement, former clients reconsider their reliance on the data-labeling startup.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/20/2025
Meta has introduced V-JEPA 2, a self-supervised video model designed to improve machine understanding of the physical world and enable robotic control without requiring task-specific training data. The model achieves state-of-the-art results on multiple visual understanding and prediction tasks and has been released alongside new benchmarks intended to evaluate physical reasoning in AI systems.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/18/2025
As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI systems, they're encountering fresh risks tied to oversight, security and compliance. Addressing these governance needs is IBM.
Google has announced general availability of its Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro models and introduced a new addition to the lineup, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, now in preview. The company said the new model is designed to be its fastest and most cost-efficient in the 2.5 family to date.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2025
OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to build prototype artificial intelligence capabilities aimed at addressing high-priority national security challenges, marking a significant step in the tech company's growing footprint in public sector work.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2025
Enterprises are rapidly embracing AI services in the cloud, but most are overlooking essential protections tailored for these technologies, according to new findings from cloud security firm Wiz.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced Valid-AI-ted, a new artificial intelligence-powered system that automates the validation of cloud service providers' (CSPs) security assessments, aiming to improve transparency and trust across the cloud computing landscape.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/13/2025