Rebecca Yu spent seven days building a dining app to solve a common problem: the decision fatigue from group chats unable to choose where to eat. Using determination and AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT, she created the web app…
Anthropic has appointed Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its India business. The U.S. AI startup is preparing to open an office in Bengaluru. This move underscores how India is becoming a key battleground for AI…
OpenAI and Microsoft attempted to avoid a courtroom confrontation with Elon Musk, but a federal judge rejected their efforts. As reported earlier by Bloomberg, the judge denied their requests to dismiss the case and scheduled a jury trial for late…
Newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for several years now, but for the most part, those efforts have remained just experiments. A relatively unknown startup, Symbolic.ai, wants to change that. It just signed a major deal with News Corp, the…
AI labs are struggling to retain their employees. The recent major news in AI was the sudden and seemingly contentious departure of three top executives from Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines lab. All three were quickly hired by OpenAI, and they…
The Trump administration signed a significant multibillion-dollar trade deal with Taiwan, designed to bolster domestic semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. Announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the agreement secures direct investments of $250 billion from Taiwanese semiconductor and…
AI video generation startup Higgsfield has raised an additional $80 million, extending its previous $50 million Series A round that closed in September. This brings the total Series A funding to $130 million and values the company at $1.3 billion.…
Spotify has raised prices for its subscription plan in the United States for the third time in three years. The monthly individual plan has increased from $11.99 to $12.99 per month. The company notified its paid users of this change…
As of Thursday, 92 million Iranians have been completely blocked from accessing the internet for more than a week. Experts now consider this one of the longest nationwide internet shutdowns ever recorded. The shutdown began last Thursday when Iran’s leadership…
The problem of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes in the tech world has expanded beyond any single platform. In a formal letter, several U.S. senators are demanding that the leaders of X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit, and TikTok provide proof of robust…
