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Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, leading to a perhaps-inevitable wave of discourse about China and open source AI.Moonshot said that although Kimi K3 “st

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Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

In late May, Neil Rimer said something during a sit-down I had with him in Athens that I haven’t been able to shake. At a vibrant new tech festival in the city, talking about the wealth piling up arou

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Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

AI has become the smartphone industry’s latest battleground, with manufacturers racing to add AI-powered features to attract mainstream consumers. Vertu is taking a different path. The UK-founded luxu

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AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market

Months after analysts warned that AI-driven demand for memory chips would ripple through consumer electronics, India is providing the strongest evidence yet that the disruption has arrived, with risin

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Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot facility to train its humanoid robots in Fremont, California, just up the highway from the factory where Tesla is expected to start manufacturing its O

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The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

Posted:VC Jeremy Levine has a wry solution to something that routinely annoys him, according to a new Wall Street Journal article on the rise of AI transcription apps. On Zoom, he is no longer “Jeremy

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Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

Databricks on Thursday announced a new round of funding that values the company at $188 billion. The round was led by Coatue.Databricks didn’t disclose exactly how much it raised; it said the money is

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Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer an

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon, the membership platform for creators, is cracking down on AI scraping its content for training purposes. On Thursday, the company shared that it’s working with internet infrastructure provide

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How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

Loading the player… Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief

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Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal

General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million loan from Upper90, a tech investment firm. It might be the first deal to put up inference-specific chips as collateral — chips

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Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox announced Thursday a new feature called “Build,” allowing users to design games from their mobile devices using AI. The Build feature lets anyone turn simple text prompts into a basic game with

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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids

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Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun

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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in. He pulled off a whirlwind fundraise that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-capital ratio th

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Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week: a $230 mini keyboard. You may not have heard that alongside this “command center for agentic work,” OpenAI also released

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Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

Sudo make me a sandwich. The future has arrived! DoorDash just introduced a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool for developers that lets you order DoorDash directly from your AI agent. T

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Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

Google announced on Thursday that it now allows users to link and interact with some of their go-to apps right in AI Mode, the tech giant’s conversational search experience. At launch, supported apps

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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu

Posted:Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative AI offering, is coming to China. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that China’s internet content regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China

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Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing, a London-based startup that’s building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Datab

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Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft appears to be prepping its sales team to get more competitive with the other major players in the AI industry.At an internal meeting on Tuesday, the company’s executives outlined a plan for

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SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

SpaceX’s shares fell to just above $135 on Wednesday, the price that CEO Elon Musk and his company chose ahead of its blockbuster June 12 IPO that raked in nearly $86 billion.The company’s stock spent

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Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI is officially entering the hardware market with the launch of a $230 light-up keyboard designed to pair with its AI coding assistant, Codex.The Codex Micro, co-designed with specialty keyboard

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Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping app Whatnot announced Wednesday that it has acquired Shaped, a machine learning company that specializes in real-time recommendation and search systems. The deal is meant to streng

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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

Posted:The AI music generator Suno was hacked, according to a report from 404 Media.The hacker told the publication that they used a supply chain attack to access an employee’s credentials, allowing t

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Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first proprietary AI model Wednesday morning, called Inkling. And unlike the flagship models from OpenAI, A

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SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

SpaceX’s shares fell below $135, the price that CEO Elon Musk and his company chose ahead of its blockbuster June 12 IPO that raked in nearly $86 billion.After slipping below that price on Wednesday a

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Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

Posted:Microsoft released a record number of security patches for Windows, Office, and other tech product lines this week, citing the use of AI to aid the discovery of code vulnerabilities.The technol

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Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

Indian AI coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in six months.The funding round was led by private equity

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Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

Voice AI startups’ biggest unlock has been handling calls for enterprises in areas like sales, marketing, and customer support. Large organizations are offloading calls to voice model developers like

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Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media

A new iOS app called Reelful uses AI to automatically turn photos and video clips from your camera roll into polished TikTok- and Instagram Reels-style videos for social media. Reelful is designed for

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Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models

AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have spun up separat

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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Posted:Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative AI offering, is coming to China. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that China’s regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, approved Apple’

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Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius

Posted:Reflection AI, a U.S. startup vying to develop open models, has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius. Nebius, formerly the international arm of Russia

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New York State halts construction of all new data centers

New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today that temporarily bars the state from approving new permits for large projects.H

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Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery

Google Images, the tech giant’s image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a browsable, dynamic gallery of images from across the web. Google is also

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Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer

In a recent interview, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said he can see a time in the future, perhaps only a year or two, when putting limits on Meta employees’ AI token spend will become necessary. “I thi

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DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI

In an X post on Tuesday morning, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a new regulatory body to oversee frontier model releases. Titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Daw

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Mastering Next.js 15: A Comprehensive Tutorial for Developers

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The Rise of Super-Intelligence: What's Next for AGI?

The landscape of artificial intelligence is shifting faster than ever...

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