The latest wave of AI excitement has brought us an unexpected mascot: a lobster. A personal AI assistant called Moltbot went viral within weeks of its launch. It will keep its crustacean theme despite having had to change its name…
Social network Bluesky is teasing its roadmap for the year ahead. The company plans to focus on improving the app’s algorithmic Discover feed, offering users better recommendations on who to follow, and giving the app more of a real-time feel.…
Google announced on Tuesday that its more affordable Google AI Plus plan is now available in all markets where its AI plans are offered. This includes the United States, where the plan will cost $7.99 per month. The expansion introduces…
According to a report, Anthropic has doubled the amount of venture capital funding it aims to raise. The company has increased its target from ten billion dollars to twenty billion dollars. This funding round is expected to close soon and…
Social network Bluesky is teasing its roadmap for the year ahead. The company plans to focus on improving the app’s algorithmic Discover feed, offering users better recommendations on who to follow, and giving the app more of a real-time feel.…
Palmer Luckey’s eyes light up and he talks a mile a minute when discussing his company’s new recruiting event: the AI Grand Prix. This is a drone flying contest with a twist. Rather than humans operating drones, the drones must…
Days after Meta was sued over alleged false privacy claims surrounding its chat app WhatsApp, the company has rolled out a new setting to protect users against cyberattacks. The feature, called Strict Account Settings, adds restrictions like automatically blocking media…
TikTok reports it is making progress on recovering its U.S. infrastructure after a data center outage. This disruption occurred shortly after the TikTok U.S. deal was finalized. Last week, TikTok announced the creation of a separate U.S. entity with American…
Amazon has reached a settlement valued at more than one billion dollars to resolve claims that it failed to properly refund customers for their returns. According to court documents, the settlement includes more than six hundred million dollars already distributed…
China’s Moonshot AI, backed by Alibaba and HongShan, has released a new open source model called Kimi K2.5. This model understands text, images, and video. The company states it was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens, making…
