Application - AI news 2025-07-29

AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders

venturebeat.com • Jul 29, 2025

Prophet Security raises $30 million to launch a fully autonomous AI cybersecurity platform that investigates and responds to threats without human int...

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Prophet Security raises $30 million in Series A funding to accelerate the adoption of autonomous AI systems for cybersecurity defense, aiming to automate manual tasks and reduce resource constraints.

Key Takeaways:

Organizations receive an average of 960 security alerts daily, with up to 40% going uninvestigated due to resource constraints.
Prophet's agentic AI SOC Platform has performed over 1 million autonomous investigations, saving 360,000 hours of investigation time and reducing false positives by 96%.
The company's approach is expected to reshape the cybersecurity landscape, with 40% of large enterprises predicted to deploy agentic AI systems in their SOCs by 2025.

Google’s NotebookLM rolls out Video Overviews

techcrunch.com • Jul 29, 2025

With this new capability, NotebookLM is taking a more visual approach to helping users understand different topics and ideas....

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Google rolls out Video Overviews to NotebookLM, enabling users to turn dense multimedia into digestible visual presentations.

Key Takeaways:

Google is rolling out Video Overviews to NotebookLM, allowing users to generate visual presentations that combine images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers.
Users can customize their Video Overviews based on specific topics, learning goals, and target audiences.
Video Overviews are now available to all users in English, and support for more languages will be added soon.

Spotify hints at a more chatty voice AI interface in the future

techcrunch.com • Jul 29, 2025

Spotify says AI will allow for "much more interactive" consumer experiences in its app....

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Spotify is exploring the potential of generative AI to create a more conversational interface for its streaming service, leveraging voice data to inform music recommendations and user experiences.

Key Takeaways:

Spotify's AI DJ feature has generated a new dataset, associating phrases with songs, enabling more interactive experiences.
The company plans to expand its voice interface capabilities, allowing users to interact with Spotify in plain English.
Spotify is using generative AI to prototype products and create efficiencies in areas like finance, in addition to enhancing consumer features.

Google’s NotebookLM can now make narrated slideshows with AI

www.theverge.com • Jul 29, 2025

Google’s NotebookLM is getting a new Video Overviews feature that uses AI to create slideshows with narration. The feature is rolling out now in Engli...

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Google's NotebookLM is getting a new Video Overviews feature using AI to create narrated slideshows, rolling out now in English with future support for more languages.

Key Takeaways:

The new Video Overviews feature uses AI to create slideshows with narration and can be used to explain data, demonstrate processes, and make abstract concepts more tangible.
The Studio tab in NotebookLM is getting a visual refresh and will allow users to create and store multiple studio outputs of the same type in a single notebook.
The Video Overviews feature includes playback controls like skipping back and forth by 10 seconds and setting playback speed, with additional formats to be introduced in the future.

Google’s AI Mode update adds even more tools for students

www.theverge.com • Jul 29, 2025

Google is bringing a bunch of new features to AI Mode, and is positioning the update as a way to help students study for tests or dig deeper into what...

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Google's AI Mode update adds new features, including image upload, real-time camera sharing, and PDF uploading, to enhance its search capabilities for students and users.

Key Takeaways:

Users can now upload images to AI Mode on desktop to ask questions and get answers.
Google is planning to introduce a test of real-time camera sharing in AI Mode, allowing users to point their camera at objects and ask questions aloud.
The update also includes a new 'Ask Google about this page' option in Chrome to generate an AI Overview of a webpage's content.

Can AI save nurses millions of hours of paperwork?

blog.google • Jul 29, 2025

Google Cloud is working with HCA Healthcare on an AI app to help nurses save time on daily patient handoffs....

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HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud collaborate to develop 'Nurse Handoff', an AI-powered app aimed at reducing nurses' paperwork time and improving patient care.

Key Takeaways:

Thousands of nurses at HCA Healthcare spend up to 10 million hours annually on paperwork, which AI-powered tools like Nurse Handoff could help reduce.
Nurse Handoff can help nurses prepare for their shifts by collecting and organizing patient notes digitally, increasing accuracy and efficiency.
A pilot of the app at five HCA Healthcare hospitals has shown promising results, with 86% of nurses rating the tool as factual and 90% finding it helpful.

Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants

www.theverge.com • Jul 29, 2025

Yelp is going to use AI to stitch together user-posted content about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses to make short videos about those busi...

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Yelp is creating AI-stitched videos using user-posted content to tell compelling stories about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses.

Key Takeaways:

Yelp is relying on multiple generative AI tools, including OpenAI LLMs, ElevenLabs, and Amazon Transcribe, to create the finished product.
Business operators and users cannot currently opt out of having their content show up in Yelp's AI-stitched videos.
Yelp aims to make 'as many videos as possible' on a nationwide scale, with the goal of telling a compelling story for each business with enough reviews, photos, and videos.

Stop promising "unlimited", when you mean "until we change our minds"

blog.kilocode.ai • Jul 29, 2025

Article URL: https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/ai-pricing-playbook-strikes-again Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721003 Points: 70 # Com...

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Anthropic adds weekly limits to its high-end AI model, Claude Pro, affecting its heaviest users, in a move some see as part of the 'AI pricing bait-and-switch' playbook.

Key Takeaways:

Power users and heavy developers are often the first to have their 'unlimited' AI access capped, affecting their workflow and productivity.
The AI pricing bait-and-switch approach, where promises of 'unlimited' access are later restricted, can damage the trust and growth of the developer community.
More transparent and predictable pricing models, where users are given control over their usage and costs, can be an alternative to the current industry approach.