Startups & Funding
Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs
Snap is spinning off its AI video development team into a new independent company called Dotmo. Current Snap employees...
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AI Agents
Perplexity Launches Brain, a Self-Improving Memory System That Builds a Context Graph of an Agent’s Work and Learns Overnight
Perplexity has launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its Computer agent that tracks the agent's work...
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Personal Assistants
Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says
A Match survey reveals that 47% of US singles view AI negatively in dating contexts, though many are open to AI...
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Startups & Funding
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: World-Model Startup Odyssey Leads With $310M In Slower Week For Large Deals
This week saw a slower pace of major funding rounds, with Odyssey, a world-model startup, leading the way with a $310M...
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AI Agents
Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips
Amazon Web Services is pursuing direct competition with Nvidia by selling its custom AI chips to other data centers, a...
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Ethics & Regulation
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) mandated that grid operators prioritize data center interconnections to...
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Personal Assistants
‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone
Karamo Brown from Netflix's 'Queer Eye' has launched Kē, a wellness app powered by an AI digital clone of himself. The...
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Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains
Computer vision technology is being deployed in retail stores to automate shelf tracking and improve inventory...
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General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
General Intuition is in talks to raise $300M at a $2B valuation to develop embodied AI and world models. The company...
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Ethics & Regulation
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight
A tech worker-backed PAC called Guardrails is launching a political movement funded by small donations from AI industry...
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AI Agents
Stellantis, Wayve and Uber to Develop Global Robotaxi
Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber are collaborating to develop autonomous robotaxi technology for global deployment. The...
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Healthcare AI
AI systems rival doctors in new Nature studies, but one result suggests the tech won't age well
Two new studies published in Nature demonstrate that specialized AI systems can diagnose diseases and make treatment...
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Startups & Funding
Yann LeCun warns AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic face a "big bubble explosion"
Yann LeCun criticizes AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for operating unsustainably, claiming investor subsidies and...
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Startups & Funding
Midjourney, known for AI image generation, unveils a full-body ultrasound scanner and its own spa
Midjourney, the AI image generation startup, has unveiled plans to build a full-body ultrasound scanner and open its...
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Personal Assistants
Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants
Adobe is rolling out AI assistants to its Creative Cloud apps including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and...
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Personal Assistants
Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like
Adobe is launching a redesigned AI studio for its Firefly AI assistant that provides persistent context and reusable...
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AI Agents
Adobe adds AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and more Creative Cloud apps
Adobe is deploying AI agents across its Creative Cloud applications that can handle multi-step creative tasks based on...
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Startups & Funding
AT&T Ventures’ Head Vikram Taneja On The New Rules of Seed-Stage Defensibility
AT&T Ventures head Vikram Taneja discusses how AI has lowered barriers to software development while fundamentally...
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Ethics & Regulation
The Boardroom Blind Spot: When Success Hides Disruption
Board members should proactively address disruptive technologies like AI and quantum computing rather than waiting for...
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