Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.
Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens.
Google's Gemini comes up short on kids' safety, says Common Sense Media.
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From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.
Users can scroll through a feed of gameplay moments shared by the Roblox community and react to the clips using emojis, and they can jump into an experience right from a video.
Tesla spent a fraction on X in early 2025 compared to 2024. It also paid $300,000 to Kimbal Musk's drone company.
Warner Bros. is suing Midjourney for AI images of Superman, Batman, and other characters.
The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron's troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries in the U.S.
X's new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags.
Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.
Acqui-hires feel like they're here to stay: the team behind Alex Codes, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.
When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last."
A shareholder proposal would allow Tesla to invest in Elon Musk's rival AI firm, xAI if approved. Tesla's board didn't recommend one way or another.
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Imagine Lens allows users to create, edit, and recreate Snaps by entering their own prompts.
Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker's car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotics and AI.
Customer service AI agent startup Sierra claims to have hundreds of customers, including SoFi, Ramp, and Brex, among others.
The company previously laid off around 140 workers in its manufacturing division in June.
The poke-tracking feature is largely designed to appeal to younger users who have grown up with gamification elements built into their social apps, like Snapchat and TikTok Streaks.
Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And many big names are joining the effort.
Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he's losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.
The new fund hopes to send a "Seqouia-like" signal to other investors that there are promising later-stage climate tech startups waiting to be funded.
Ella provides recommendations to customers across the three retailers on what to purchase or rent to make an outfit come to life.
Though the feature shipped in beta in May, XChat is now accessible for more users, including those who do not subscribe to X Premium.
The OpenAI Jobs Platform is set to launch in mid-2026, and will use AI to match candidates with businesses.
Nepal has moved to block 26 social media platforms for failing to comply with its registration requirements.
The new funding, which was led by Redpoint, comes just five months after the startup launched out of stealth with a $25 million seed round.
It's the first airport in California that Waymo will offer rides to and from. The company's been active at the Phoenix airport for nearly two years.
Meta says that the 10,000 characters give people more room to express themselves, but also allows them to promote their work and drive others to "wherever it lives," even if not on Threads itself.
For more than two decades, Botha has helped shape some of the world’s most iconic companies — and his perspective has never been more important.
From a new slim iPhone Air model to redesigned AirPods, here's what to expect from this year's Apple event.
Meta says that the 10,000 characters give people more room to express themselves, but also allows them to promote their work and drive others to "wherever it lives," even if not on Threads itself.
The new partnership comes as hybrid solutions gain momentum in the advanced air mobility (AAM) space, a catch-all term to describe the next generation of aviation concepts like eVTOL, hydrogen, and so on.
Google Photos' photo-to-video feature is being upgraded with Google's latest video-generation model, Veo 3.
Lambda, which allows companies to rent GPUs, is reportedly following its rival CoreWeave to the public market.
Captions, the AI-powered video creation and editing app for content creators, is rebranding to Mirage.
Former Meta exec Nick Clegg recalls an MMA session with Zuckerberg at a management offsite.
While many other airlines are choosing Starlink, JetBlue is opting for Amazon's newer Kuiper satellites. But the service won't launch until 2027.
Google's Circle to Search feature now supports translation.
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Adobe is planning to bring its video editing software Premiere to the iPhone. The company has listed the app on the App Store with a pre-order link and an expected release date of September 30.
Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash.
With DuckDuckGo's $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.
Orbital Paradigm is moving fast and cheap to industrialize low Earth orbit.
The 2-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open-source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences.
Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action
An AI Siri is in the works and it could be running Gemini under the hood.
While at xAI, Mike Liberatore helped orchestrate the company's $5 billion debt raise, alongside another $5 billion in equity — almost half of which came from SpaceX.