Hinge founder Justin McLeod raised $18 million from Match Group, FirstMark Capital, and Pace Capital for his new AI dating service, Overtone, which uses voice and audio to provide highly curated intro…
A group of publishers including Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, filed a class action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of an independent standards body, modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), to regulate frontier AI model releases. …
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Meta may need to cap AI token budgets per engineer within a year or two, as the burn rate of a strong engineer could equal their salary. Meta shut down an internal AI …
Google is redesigning Google Images with a Pinterest-like 'For You' gallery and collections for saving ideas, rolling out on desktop in the U.S. in English over the coming weeks. The tech giant is als…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today temporarily halting state approval of new permits for data centers 50 megawatts or larger, making New York the first state to enact such a mo…
Reflection AI, a U.S. startup developing open-weight AI models, signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius, formerly the international arm of Yandex, to access Nvi…
Chinese open-weight models accounted for 41% of downloads on Hugging Face this spring, surpassing U.S. models, and the top six most popular models on OpenRouter are all open models from Chinese firms …
Spotify on Tuesday announced a beta AI-powered music assistant for Premium users in the U.S., Ireland, and Sweden, allowing interactive conversations via text or voice to choose music, podcasts, and a…
Superhuman launched a new version of its auto-draft feature that identifies important emails and creates draft replies based on the user's tone from previous conversations, with co-founder Rahul Vohra…
Tom Blomfield, co-founder of GoCardless and Monzo, announced Monday he is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team as a member of technical staff, joining a wave of…
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439 million in a Series C extension, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The company, founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu and Jaden Xie, pl…
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new funding round led by Robot Ventures with participation from USV at a $1.5 billion valuation, raising at least $75 mi…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned in a blog post Monday that companies using proprietary AI models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are paying twice: once for token usage and again by handing over…
Sam Altman said space data centers will not be a serious business anytime soon, echoing what most experts already believe, in a social media exchange with Elon Musk over the weekend. Musk had accused …
Comma AI founder George Hotz argued in a blog post that AI alignment should prioritize locally controlled models aligned with individual users, even if that means helping users plan crimes like murder…
Anthropic has started localizing Claude pricing in India, its biggest market outside the U.S., listing Claude Pro at ₹2,000 ($21) per month when billed annually, compared with $17 in the U.S. The move…
Waze, the Google-owned navigation app, is rolling out new AI-powered features and customization updates, including personalized route suggestions, conversational destination search via Google's Gemini…
OpenAI is hiring a product manager to build family-focused experiences for ChatGPT, signaling a strategic shift from individual productivity tools to household technology. The move comes as the share …
Meta removed a controversial AI feature on Instagram that let users modify photos from public accounts without notification, following backlash over privacy concerns and potential misuse. The feature,…