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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.

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 r

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

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 laun

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 worksp

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 c

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 becom

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 re

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

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

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

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 m

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 indu

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, w

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

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

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 specifi

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

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 compan

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

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

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 generate

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 inte

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

Power Shortage Opens New Opportunities for AI Infrastructure Investors
AI data center construction hits power shortage constraints, and investors are shifting focus to energy technologies as a more reliable bet

Trump's AI Strategy: Federal Priority Over States and Parental Responsibility for Children's Safety
Trump's new AI strategy establishes the supremacy of federal standards over state laws, prioritizes innovation, and shifts responsibility fo

WordPress.com Launches AI Agents to Autonomously Write and Publish Blog Posts
Automattic has integrated agents into WordPress.com that can independently create and publish content without human intervention at each ste

Jensen Huang at GTC: $1 Trillion in AI Chip Sales by 2027 and OpenClaw Strategy for All Companies
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a 2.5-hour keynote at GTC forecasting $1 trillion in AI chip sales by 2027 and called on every company to

Jensen Huang at GTC: $1 Trillion in AI Chips and OpenClaw Strategy for Every Company
At Nvidia's GTC conference, Jensen Huang forecasted $1 trillion in AI chip sales by 2027 and announced OpenClaw as a mandatory strategy for