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Meta considers laying off 20% of staff to fund AI infrastructure
Mark Zuckerberg's company could lay off one in five employees, with the savings directed toward aggressive investment in AI infrastructure and related acquisitions.
Lawyer in AI psychosis cases: chatbots are now linked to mass-casualty risk
A lawyer handling AI psychosis lawsuits warns that chatbots are already appearing in cases involving mass-casualty threats, while the technology is outpacing safeguards.
Google and Accel selected 5 Indian startups from 4,000 applications — and none was an AI wrapper
Google and Accel reviewed more than 4,000 applications for the Atoms accelerator and found that 70% of applicants were building wrapper products on top of other companies’ AI models.
Jensen Huang at GTC 2026: Nvidia sets the course for the future of AI and computing
Nvidia is holding its flagship GTC 2026 conference — Jensen Huang's keynote will define the company's AI and computing strategy for the coming years.
Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica Sue OpenAI Over 100,000 Articles
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster accuse OpenAI of unlawfully using nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train language models — without permission and without compensation.
Fuse raised $25 million to displace legacy systems in U.S. credit unions
Startup Fuse built an AI-native platform for U.S. credit unions and announced a $5 million rescue fund that covers penalties for early termination of contracts with legacy vendors.
Nvidia DLSS 5 uses generative AI for photorealism in games and beyond
Nvidia’s fifth-generation DLSS creates pixels from scratch using generative AI and structured scene data — Jensen Huang already sees applications for the technology beyond gaming.
Memories.ai is developing a visual memory layer for wearables and robots
Startup Memories.ai is building a large visual memory model that will allow wearables and robots to index and retrieve video recordings of real-world events.
Nvidia unveils NemoClaw — an enterprise platform for AI agents with a focus on security
Nvidia has announced NemoClaw — an open enterprise platform for AI agents based on the viral OpenClaw, aimed at solving the main problem of enterprise AI: security.
Picsart Opens AI-Agent Marketplace: Content Creators Can Hire AI Assistants
Picsart has launched a marketplace where content creators can "hire" specialized AI agents for creative tasks — with four assistants at launch, new ones appearing weekly.
Gamma launches Gamma Imagine — AI image generation to rival Canva and Adobe
Gamma's AI presentation platform introduces Gamma Imagine — a tool for creating branded visuals from text prompts directly within the workspace.
Startup Niv-AI Emerges from Stealth with $12M to Combat GPU Power Spikes
Niv-AI raised $12M in seed funding to measure and manage GPU consumption spikes — a problem costing data centers billions in underutilized computing capacity.
Rana el-Kaliouby: "boys' club" in AI threatens to entrench the gender income gap
Investor Rana el-Kaliouby warns: women receive only about 2% of venture AI funding, and if nothing changes, the gender income gap will become structural.
Google Expands Personal Intelligence to All US Users
Google launches Personal Intelligence to all Americans — the AI assistant gains access to Gmail and Google Photos to provide personalized responses.
BuzzFeed showcased AI apps at SXSW, but the audience was unimpressed
At the SXSW conference, media company BuzzFeed unveiled new AI apps for social media in search of new revenue streams, but the demos failed to impress the audience.
Gary Tan’s Claude Code setup: thousands tried it, opinions split
The CEO of Y Combinator posted his Claude Code configuration on GitHub — and it triggered a wave of debate among developers and even the AI models themselves.
Mistral Forge: training enterprise AI from scratch on proprietary data
Mistral has launched Forge, a tool for training enterprise AI models from scratch on customer data, challenging the approaches of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Berkeley PhD students became the AI industry's chief judges: how Arena decides which model is best
The Arena startup has become the main public ranking of language models, influencing funding rounds and product launches throughout the industry.
Microsoft hired Cove startup team with Sequoia backing — service shutting down April 1
Microsoft recruited the entire team of Cove, an AI collaboration platform backed by Sequoia Capital. The service is shutting down April 1, with user data being deleted.
Sequen raises $16M for TikTok-style personalization technology for consumer companies
Startup Sequen closed a Series A round at $16 million to scale its AI content ranking engine—an analog of TikTok's algorithm—now accessible to any consumer brand.
Arena: AI model ranking that can't be gamed — and funded by those it judges
Arena (formerly LM Arena) became the leading public ranking of frontier LLMs, influencing investments and launches — while being financed by the very companies it evaluates.
Rebel Audio: AI Platform for Podcast Beginners Without Tool Switching
Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one AI service for recording, editing, clipping, and publishing podcasts in a single interface, designed specifically for those starting from scratch.
Patreon chief called AI companies' fair use argument untenable
Jack Conte said platforms must pay creators for training data — and licensing deals with publishers prove it.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei: smartphone apps will disappear — AI agents will replace them
Carl Pei is convinced that familiar apps will become a thing of the past, replaced by AI agents that understand user intent and act on their own.
Meta can't cope with out-of-control AI agents that reveal corporate data
A Meta AI agent accidentally disclosed internal corporate data and information about users to engineers who lacked access rights. The company acknowledges difficulties controlling agentic systems.
Multiverse Computing launched a public API with compressed OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek models
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing launched a public API with compressed versions of models from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI for local deployment without GPUs.
Meta Shifts to In-House AI for Content Moderation, Ditches Third-Party Vendors
Meta launches new AI systems to detect violations on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, abandoning third-party contractor services in favor of in-house development.
Cloudflare CEO warns: AI bots will overtake humans in internet traffic by 2027
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, stated that by 2027, traffic from AI agents and automated bots will exceed the volume of traffic generated by live internet users.
Bezos Aims to Raise $100 Billion to Acquire and AI-Transform Industrial Companies
Amazon's founder is working on a new large-scale project: to acquire aging industrial enterprises and restructure them using artificial intelligence, attracting up to $100 billion in investments.
Plaud Note, Limitless Pendant, and others: physical AI voice recorders for meeting transcription
A new generation of physical AI note-takers records meetings, instantly transcribes speech, and produces concise summaries with action items — some can translate in real time.