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Apple to unveil HomeView smart hub on Tuesday, Gurman reports
Per Bloomberg, Apple will show its HomeView smart home hub on Tuesday. The name and date are new after two years of rumors about a home device with a screen.
TechCrunch rounds up AI agents that live in text messages, from personal assistants to family and work helpers
TechCrunch compiled a list of AI agents that work directly inside text messages and sorted them into 4 types: general-purpose, family, travel and work.
Sherry Turkle warns: people believe an AI cares from the first exchange
MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle says even a primitive dialogue is enough to make us believe a machine cares. The effect was described in 1966, and today it runs at product scale.
a16z's Olivia Moore Sees a Consumer AI Market Beyond Subscriptions and APIs
a16z partner Olivia Moore says consumer AI hinges on monetization: $20 subscriptions and API payments are only part of the possible revenue.
American Express launches framework to stop AI agents from making unauthorized purchases
American Express has unveiled the Intent Intelligence Framework — a payment protection system for AI agents. It captures buyer intent and requires authentication before payment. 66% of consumers say they're willing to tr
WindBorne wins nearly $50M US Air Force contract for weather balloon data
Silicon Valley startup WindBorne, which pairs weather balloons with AI forecasting, has landed a military contract worth nearly $50M. The customer is the US Air Force.
Meta releases its first frontier models: Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full
Meta Superintelligence Labs released two models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. It is the company's first attempt to reach the frontier tier.
Brad Smith: Milk and Washing Machines Get More Oversight Than AI Companies
Microsoft's president called for urgent AI regulation and named the UK the best place to build it, saying milk and washing machines face stricter scrutiny than model developers.
Amazon drops NDAs on data center deals as AI agents storm credit cards
Amazon, following Microsoft, is ending the secrecy around negotiations to build AI data centers. At the same time, hundreds of municipalities are imposing moratoriums on infrastructure, while startups ask for access to u
Three OpenAI Researchers Deny Leaks and Warn of a Cultural Crisis
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni have rejected leak accusations and warned of the chilling effect their firing will have inside a company where staff now fear raising AI safety concerns.
Math Advisers Say OpenAI's Flood of Proofs Broke the Field's Rules
Mathematicians who advised OpenAI say the lab's stream of proofs departed from the agreed guidelines. Numbers and details have not yet been disclosed.
Interface: a $99 smart ring that summons AI agents with a single tap
Interface is a $99 smart ring from Natura that turns a finger tap into a command for an AI agent. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and Instinct. It also includes health tracking (heart rate, HRV, sle
Goodfire launches 'internal' AI agent monitors that undercut LLM oversight costs
Startup Goodfire has unveiled a cheap way to watch AI agents: probes read the model's internal signals instead of double-checking its outputs. Monitoring 1 million exchanges costs $185, versus $5,420–$200,000 for rival a
SpaceXSI Combined X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into One Subscription for $8–200
SpaceX Super Intelligence launched The X Subscription, combining X Premium, Grok, and Cursor in five tiers from $8 to $200/month. The comprehensive offering competes with OpenAI and Anthropic in the paid AI market.
Google Turns Gemini Into an Agent With Its Own Email Address and Subagents
Google is turning Gemini into a business agent that plans tasks, delegates to subagents, uses multiple models and gets a work identity with its own email address.
OpenAI's Revenue Is $20 Billion Below Investor Expectations
OpenAI told investors it generates $50 billion in revenue, not $70 billion. The $20 billion gap stems from methodological differences with Anthropic in how revenue is calculated.
Safety or Corporate Interest: Why Is Anthropic Holding Back the Mythos Release?
Anthropic is withholding its new Mythos model, citing cyber risks. Critics ask whether the company is protecting the internet or its own interests.
Google and Intel Expand Their AI Infrastructure Partnership
The tech giants are pooling efforts to build specialized chips amid a global capacity shortage and surging demand for AI compute.
Sam Altman Responds to New Yorker Criticism After Attack on His Home
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has published a response to a high-profile New Yorker article questioning his honesty, amid reports of an attack on his private property.
Google Expands Gemini's Personal Intelligence to India
Users in India can now connect the Gemini AI assistant to Gmail and Photos to get deeply personalized, accurate answers to everyday requests.
Anthropic Is Reportedly Building a Figma Competitor: The Beginning of the End for Traditional SaaS?
Anthropic's chief product officer has left Figma's board. The move feeds investor fears of a "SaaSpocalypse," in which AI giants take over the software market.
Luma AI launches Wonder Project studio: Moses film with Ben Kingsley to premiere on Prime Video
Luma AI is opening Wonder Project, an AI production studio with a religious focus. Its first project, a Moses film with Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, will premiere this spring on Prime Video.
Honeyjar Offers AI Tools for PR and Communications to Companies of Any Size
Startup Honeyjar wants to automate PR and corporate communications with AI. Product metrics aren't public yet, but the question of a "broken" industry is posed head-on.
Florida Prosecutor Investigates OpenAI: ChatGPT May Have Helped Plan University Shooting
Florida's Attorney General has opened an investigation against OpenAI following the deaths of two people at a university; according to investigators, the attacker planned the assault with help from ChatGPT.
Pentagon Told Anthropic of "Near Agreement" — a Week Before Trump's Breakup Announcement
Court documents reveal: the Pentagon told Anthropic of "near agreement" a week before Trump publicly announced a break in relations.
Pentagon calls Anthropic a national security threat due to ethical restrictions on AI
The U.S. Department of Defense has designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk because the company reserves the right to disable AI during military operations.
Lawsuit against xAI: Grok allegedly turned real photos of children into sexual content
Three minors filed a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the Grok chatbot created sexualized images based on their real photos.
Parag Agrawal's Parallel Web Systems Startup Reaches $2 Billion Valuation After New Funding Round
Parallel Web Systems, the startup of former Twitter head Parag Agrawal, raised an additional $100 million from Sequoia and reached a $2 billion valuation just five months after its previous funding round.
US Army signs contract with Anduril worth up to $20 billion for military AI systems
The US Army has signed a 10-year contract with Anduril worth up to $20 billion, consolidating more than 120 procurements into a single framework for faster access to military software, hardware, and services.
Clio reaches $500M ARR: cloud software for law firms becomes the standard
Clio's cloud platform for legal practice management has reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue, becoming a symbol of the mass adoption of cloud solutions in the conservative legal industry.