The California State Assembly took a significant step toward regulating AI on Wednesday night by passing SB 243. This bill aims to regulate AI companion chatbots in order to protect minors and vulnerable users. The legislation passed with bipartisan support…
Perplexity, an AI-powered search startup that competes with Google by providing conversational answers to user queries, has secured 200 million dollars in new funding. This investment values the company at 20 billion dollars. The fresh capital arrives just two months…
Replit has raised a new funding round of $250 million, which values the company at three billion dollars. This is a significant increase from its last raise in 2023, when it secured approximately $100 million at a post-money valuation of…
There are times when you may want to prevent videos and GIFs from automatically playing in your social media feeds. This could be because you are trying to conserve cellular data, limit the addictiveness of these apps, or maintain better…
There is significant interest in what Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is building with its two billion dollars in seed funding and the all-star team of former OpenAI researchers who have joined the lab. In a blog post published on…
After a long journey, the 20-year-old fintech company Klarna has finally reached its initial public offering. The company successfully landed on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, having raised $1.4 billion. This capital raise was largely for its existing…
With Anduril’s help, Australia has accomplished what the U.S. Navy has struggled to achieve: transitioning an extra-large undersea drone from the drawing board to a contract in just three years. Anduril announced that a fleet of its XL uncrewed undersea…
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it is launching a dedicated parental controls app called PlayStation Family for iOS and Android. The new app features a series of tools that allow parents to manage their children’s activity on the…
Anthropic reported a service outage earlier this afternoon that impacted its APIs, Console, and Claude AI. Users on GitHub and Hacker News first began noting issues with Claude at around 12:20 PM ET. Anthropic released a status update eight minutes…
Meta is introducing new features for its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, which first launched in the U.S. earlier this year. Users will now receive a notification when they have interacted with a post on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads that…
