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Candidates Turn Data Center and AI Safety Worries Into a New Campaign Pledge

The AI Pact is drawing candidates into a new debate over data centers, AI safety and energy use as midterm politics heat up.

Google’s Gemini audio update adds cleaner transcription, jargon support, and 85+ languages while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delayed.

Particle’s podcast search engine Radar indexes 130,000+ shows and makes audio searchable for AI agents, investors and researchers.

Perceptron has launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight visual AI model aimed at robots, warehouses and factory-floor automation.

Bill Gates backs a robot tax and Human Reserved jobs, adding new urgency to the robot tax debate over AI, labor and policy.

Ox Alpha has been revealed as a Z.ai model, intensifying pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic as open-weight AI competition heats up.

Physical AI startups are booming, but robotics still lacks the data and reliability needed for a true breakthrough in physical AI.

Arga Labs raised $10 million to train enterprise AI agents in realistic software twins built for Salesforce, Workday and more.

QueryStory launches with a $6 million seed round and a plan to make enterprise AI answers transparent, auditable and trustworthy.

Legato emerges with $12M to launch AI hearing glasses that aim to make hearing support discreet, cheaper and easier to adopt.