emotional intelligence AI News & Updates

Google DeepMind Acquires Hume AI Leadership Team to Enhance Voice Emotion Recognition

January 22, 2026 15:12

Google DeepMind has hired the CEO and approximately seven engineers from voice AI startup Hume AI through a licensing agreement, aiming to improve Gemini's voice features with emotional intelligence capabilities. This "a...

AI Companies Push for Emotionally Intelligent Models as New Frontier Beyond Logic-Based Benchmarks

June 24, 2025 21:03

AI companies are shifting focus from traditional logic-based benchmarks to developing emotionally intelligent models that can interpret and respond to human emotions. LAION released EmoNet, an open-source toolkit for emo...