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Lovable reached $400M ARR, adding $100M in a month with just 146 employees
Swedish AI startup Lovable said it surpassed $400M ARR in February and added $100M in just one month — with a team of 146 employees, becoming one of the fastest-growing players in the AI development market.
Amazon added Sassy mode for adults to Alexa+: swearing, teasing, no NSFW
Amazon launched a new Sassy style for Alexa+: the assistant can swear, be snarky, and jokingly tease the user, but it still blocks sexual and other unsafe content.
Mantis Biotech creates digital twins of people to address the shortage of medical data
Mantis Biotech creates synthetic medical datasets and human digital twins to speed up drug research where the market lacks high-quality data.
Amazon added an adult Sassy mode to Alexa+: the assistant can swear and tease
Amazon launched a new adult Sassy style for Alexa+: the assistant can reply with profanity and sarcasm, but the company tightly restricted the topics and requires additional verification in the app.
Amazon added conversational food ordering via Uber Eats and Grubhub to Alexa+
Alexa+ now lets users order food through Uber Eats and Grubhub in a single conversation: they can choose a cuisine, change dishes on the fly, and immediately see the final order with the price.
OpenAI added Spotify, Uber, and DoorDash integrations to ChatGPT: how to use them
ChatGPT now has direct integrations with Spotify, Canva, Figma, Uber, Expedia, and other services: accounts can be connected in settings and actions can be launched directly from the chat.
Google added prompt-based control of AI avatars to Vids and video export to YouTube
Google updated the Vids video editor: AI avatars can now be given actions via text, their appearance and background can be changed, and finished videos can be sent straight to YouTube.
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.
ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of Seedance 2.0
ByteDance has reportedly put the international release of Seedance 2.0 on hold: engineers and lawyers are refining the product to reduce the risk of new legal claims over AI video.
US poll finds: people are more comfortable living next to an Amazon warehouse than a data center
Two recent US polls show that AI data centers cause more concern among nearby residents than e-commerce warehouses, with the main fears being electricity bills, water use, noise, and limited local benefits.
Amazon launched Alexa+ in the UK and opened free early access
Amazon has brought Alexa+ to the UK market: users can test the new AI assistant for free through early access, and later the service will be included with Prime.
Waydev: the race for tokens reduces returns from AI coding and inflates rework volume
Companies are increasingly measuring developer productivity by AI token volume, but data from Waydev, GitClear, Faros AI, and Jellyfish show that code volume rises, and so do rewrites and costs.
Cursor in talks for a $2B+ round at a $50B valuation amid enterprise growth
Cursor, according to TechCrunch, is in talks for a funding round of more than $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation amid explosive growth in enterprise revenue and improving gross margin.
Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to strengthen AI models for humanoid robots
Meta announced the acquisition of Assured Robot Intelligence: the deal is expected to strengthen AI models for humanoid robots and reinforce the company's position in the embodied AI race.
Apple underestimated demand for Macs for AI: Mac mini, Studio, and Neo are in short supply
Apple said AI workloads unexpectedly boosted Mac sales: segment revenue rose to $8.4 billion, and Mac mini, Mac Studio, and MacBook Neo are already in short supply.
Anthropic may close a round at a valuation above $900 billion within the next two weeks
Anthropic, according to sources, has accelerated a new round: investors were given 48 hours for allocations, and the deal itself, with a possible valuation above $900 billion, could close within the next two weeks.
Legora reaches $5.6B valuation and intensifies rivalry with Harvey in AI for lawyers
Swedish startup Legora raised another $50 million, crossed $100 million ARR and closed in on Harvey, turning the AI-for-lawyers market into an expensive, aggressive race.
Elon Musk in court admitted that xAI partially trained Grok on OpenAI models
At hearings on the lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk confirmed that xAI partially used distillation of OpenAI models to train Grok — a practice that the entire AI market is arguing about.
OpenAI strengthens ChatGPT account security and launches partnership with Yubico
OpenAI launched Advanced Account Security for ChatGPT: sign-in only via passkeys or physical security keys, with no SMS recovery, while Yubico will offer a branded YubiKey bundle.
BioticsAI: how to navigate the FDA, raise money, and motivate a team in healthtech
BioticsAI CEO Robhi Bustami explained how the healthtech startup is handling FDA approval, attracting investment, and keeping the team motivated in a highly regulated industry.
X relaunches its AI-powered advertising platform to restore revenue growth
X is relaunching a rebuilt AI-powered advertising platform and betting on campaign automation to win back advertisers and restore revenue growth.
Stripe introduced Link — a wallet for online payments and purchases via AI agents
Stripe introduced Link, a digital wallet that brings together cards, bank accounts, and subscriptions, and also lets users securely grant AI agents access to payments through action confirmation.
Salesforce handed part of its AI roadmap to customers and sped up releases of Agentforce and new features
Salesforce builds AI products not on a rigid plan, but on weekly feedback from customers to ship Agentforce, voice AI, and Slack features faster.
Google brings Gemini to cars with Google built-in and will update millions of vehicles
Google has started rolling out Gemini in cars with Google built-in: the assistant will replace Google Assistant, understand natural speech, and arrive not only in new vehicles but also in cars already on the road.
Otter Launches Enterprise-Wide Search and Windows App for Call Recording Without Meeting Attendance
Otter has released an enterprise-wide search spanning all connected tools and a native Windows application that records conversations without requiring meeting participants to attend the call.
Google adds new Gemini features to Google TV with photo, video and Shorts generation
Google has expanded Gemini in Google TV: televisions will get image generation through Nano Banana, video generation through Veo, voice search in Google Photos and a Shorts row on the home screen.
Runway bets on world models, sees AI video as just the first stage
Runway's head says video generation has already become a working tool, but the main market lies ahead: world models could take the company into games, robotics, and interactive media.
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.
Google Cloud exceeded $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, but faces capacity shortage
Google Cloud earned over $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time thanks to AI, but Alphabet acknowledged that growth is constrained by a shortage of computing power and infrastructure.
SoftBank Launches Roze AI: Robots for Data Center Construction and $100 Billion Valuation
SoftBank, according to FT and WSJ, is creating a US-based company called Roze AI that will accelerate data center construction using autonomous robots and is already targeting a $100 billion valuation.