Higgsfield, the AI video startup founded by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, has integrated its video generation into xAI's Grok Bot, offering new users 100 free credits through the integration. …
AI coding startup valuations are soaring, with CodeRabbit raising $143 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, Lovable raising $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, and Cognition in talks to raise $…
Wired reports that consumer neurotechnology is advancing rapidly, with Apple, Meta, and Snap developing products that can monitor or interpret brain activity, prompting neuroscientists to call for 'ne…
Higgsfield AI, led by co-founders Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, announced a $1 million global competition for AI-generated short films on August 3rd, with the first-place winner receiving $500,000,…
Snapchat has stopped algorithmically recommending wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight, its short-form video feed, as the company tries to direct more distribution toward videos made by people. The…
The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against telehealth company Hims and Hers, alleging it shared users' health information with Meta and Snap, including data on erectile dysfunction treatm…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots in an attempt to monetize bot traffic, with CEO Jonah Goodhart of Mobian noting that influencing AI agents could become more important than influencing humans. Se…
Snap will hold a launch event for its $2,195 Specs AR glasses on September 16 in Los Angeles, where co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel will provide the first in-depth demonstrations of AI assistance, wor…
HeyGen launched Video Podcast on July 29th, turning a topic, URL or PDF into an edited show featuring two synthetic hosts with studio scenes, captions, B-roll and camera cuts. The product generates di…
Zephr, a Boulder-based startup co-founded by geographer Sean Gorman and CTO Pramukta Rao, is collaborating with Overture Maps Foundation to teach AI agents to understand physical space by combining pr…
CopySight has raised a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital to build an intellectual property clearance layer for generative AI video, launching CopyScore V2 that scores AI-generated video for …
Global smart glasses shipments grew 139% year over year in the second half of 2025, with 88% being AI glasses, according to Counterpoint research, as Meta dominates with an 82% shipment share after se…
Eromify and Higgsfield AI serve different creator needs: Eromify focuses on fast AI persona monetization with credit packs starting at $5 and a $99 monthly plan, while Higgsfield, founded by former Sn…
Apple is targeting a June 2027 unveiling of AI-powered smart glasses at its developer conference, with a consumer launch expected by the holiday season, according to Bloomberg. The device, developed f…
Patreon cut 93 employees, about 20% of its workforce, on Thursday, but CEO Jack Conte insisted the layoffs are not because AI is replacing humans. Conte said the company needs a leaner cost base to na…
Monk, a New York software maker, has added outbound phone calls and inbound callbacks to Julia, its AI accounts receivable agent, extending the product beyond email into a channel where mistakes carry…
Uber is laying off about 10% of its community operations team and requiring remote employees to relocate to offices, citing artificial intelligence as the reason. Megha Yethadka, Uber's vice president…
Monday.com laid off about 20% of its workforce, or over 600 employees, as part of a restructuring plan to invest in an AI-driven growth strategy, the Tel Aviv-based company announced in a July 22 SEC …
Uber laid off 10 percent of its customer service team, citing AI as the reason, according to Bloomberg. The cuts affected the Community Operations division, which Uber's vice president Megha Yethadka …
Monday.com plans to lay off 20% of its workforce, citing an 'AI-driven growth strategy' in a Form 6-K filing. The enterprise software company, which had 3,155 employees in its 2025 annual report, said…