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Uber shifts to asset ownership strategy — what changes for the taxi market
Uber abandons the "platform only" model and begins building its own asset fleet—vehicles, infrastructure, robotaxis.
12-month window: AI startups live while OpenAI hasn't reached their niche
Most AI startups exist in niches that major foundational models haven't reached yet—but this is temporary, and founders understand this perfectly well.
OpenAI and two existential challenges: how acquisitions should save the company
Analysts from the Equity podcast analyzed OpenAI's recent acquisitions and assessed whether they can solve two key crises threatening the company's future.
NSA uses Anthropic's classified Mythos model despite conflict with the Pentagon
The US National Security Agency is secretly working with Anthropic's closed AI model, ignoring the company's public conflict with the Pentagon.
Google launches Gemini in Chrome browser in seven new Asia-Pacific countries
Google expands access to Gemini in Chrome to Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam.
Anthropic Raises $5B from Amazon in Exchange for $100B in Cloud Spending
Amazon invested another $5 billion in Anthropic, and the AI company committed to spending $100 billion on AWS—the largest circular deal in AI industry history.
Startup GRAI believes AI should help fans remix music, not replace artists
AI startup GRAI offers a different view of AI's role in music: instead of generating tracks from scratch, it builds tools for collaborative creation between fans and artists.
YouTube expands AI likeness detection to celebrities — now they can fight deepfakes
YouTube is giving celebrities and their representatives access to an AI tool for automatically finding deepfakes — performers will be able to request the removal of synthetic videos featuring their face.
Bond — a new social network that uses AI to wean you off doomscrolling
Startup Bond has created a platform where AI actively encourages users to close the app and return to the real world — instead of keeping them on the screen.
Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for building AI-RPGs with living NPCs
Latitude, the creator of AI Dungeon, has announced Voyage, a platform for creating full-fledged RPG worlds with characters powered by generative AI.
At the FTC's request, Clarifai destroyed 3 million OkCupid user photos leaked for AI training
In 2014, dating platform OkCupid secretly handed millions of user photos to Clarifai for facial recognition — the images have now been destroyed under an agreement with the FTC.
Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's new model Mythos: "fear-based marketing"
The head of OpenAI called the positioning of Anthropic Mythos, a model tailored for cybersecurity, fear-based marketing rather than a demonstration of real capabilities.
Mind Robotics Raises $500M for Industrial AI Robots
The startup founded by Rivian creator RJ Scaringe raised half a billion dollars to develop AI robots and deploy them in manufacturing.
Sandbar raises $23M for AI ring
Startup Sandbar closed a $23 million Series A round to bring Stream — a smart ring with note-taking, AI assistant and media player features — to market this summer.
Detention and Labor Camp Owners Strike Gold in AI Boom
The infrastructure boom for neural networks requires harsh physical solutions. Why big tech increasingly turns to prison contractors for building giant data centers.
Claude AI discovered 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox
AI helped Mozilla find critical bugs in the browser code. Of the 22 identified vulnerabilities, 14 were rated high severity.
Microsoft and Google will keep Claude available to civilian users
Cloud giants confirmed: Anthropic's conflict with U.S. authorities will not affect Claude's availability for businesses and individual customers.
City Detect raises $13 million for AI in urban safety and cleanliness
Startup City Detect, which uses computer vision to combat urban decay, has closed a $13 million Series A round. The system is already operating in 17 U.S. cities, including Dallas and Miami.
WhatsApp opens the door to rivals: chatbots from third-party AI companies are coming to Brazil
After Europe, Meta will allow competing AI companies to place their chatbots in WhatsApp for Brazilian users — for a fee. This could reshape the AI assistant market.
AWS launches AI platform for healthcare: Amazon Connect Health
Amazon Web Services has unveiled a specialized platform based on AI agents for healthcare providers. Amazon Connect Health will handle patient scheduling, documentation, and verification — routine work that consumes mill
DiligenceSquared replaces consultants with voice AI agents in M&A deals
Startup DiligenceSquared offers private equity funds a way to conduct due diligence without expensive consultants, using voice AI agents that interview customers of target companies themselves.
Luma launches creative AI agents powered by Unified Intelligence models
Luma has unveiled a platform of AI agents capable of coordinating multiple artificial intelligence systems and creating full-fledged content — from text and images to video and audio.
Lio raises $30M from a16z to automate corporate procurement
AI startup Lio raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to automate procurement at enterprises.
Apple Music to introduce transparency tags for AI-created music
Apple plans to label AI content in its music service with special tags. But there is a caveat: record labels and distributors must opt in to the labeling themselves, which calls the effectiveness of the entire initiative
Nvidia pulls back from OpenAI and Anthropic: what Jensen Huang is hiding
Nvidia's CEO said the company is ending investments in leading AI labs. But his explanations leave more questions than answers — and there may be more behind the decision than a concern for neutrality.
CollectivIQ wants to make AI more reliable by querying 14 models at once
Startup CollectivIQ proposes a radically simple idea: instead of trusting one chatbot, ask fourteen at once. The company aggregates responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and other models simultaneously.
How AI startups sell the same shares at two different prices
Founders of AI companies have found a neat way to reach unicorn status without waiting for real growth. The new valuation mechanism is raising questions among investors and analysts.
X to suspend creators from monetization for unlabeled AI content depicting armed conflicts
Elon Musk's platform is introducing strict penalties for content creators: unlabeled AI-generated depictions of armed conflicts will lead to a three-month monetization suspension, and repeat offenders will be permanently
No one knows how AI companies should work with the government
OpenAI is turning from a consumer-facing startup into a component of U.S. national security, but neither the company nor the government has a clear plan for how that should work.
Billion-dollar deals: the infrastructure behind the AI boom
Meta, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and OpenAI are investing unprecedented sums in data centers and compute capacity. We examine where hundreds of billions of dollars are going and what it means for the industry.