Elon Musk’s X is the latest social network to announce a feature that will label edited images as “manipulated media.” This news comes from a cryptic post by Musk himself, though the company has not clarified how it will determine…
Three weeks ago, Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, revealed it raised $20 billion in a Series E funding round. Now, we know Tesla is among its investors. Tesla disclosed in a letter to shareholders on Wednesday that it invested $2…
Moments before a bankruptcy judge was set to approve the sale of Luminar’s lidar business, an unidentified party submitted a surprise offer that significantly exceeded the leading bid of $33 million. This last-minute bid, emerging just before a hearing on…
Many in the industry believe the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it, meaning Google, Meta, Microsoft, and a bit of Amazon, along with their model makers of choice, largely OpenAI and…
Once Upon a Farm, an organic food company known for its baby food and kids’ snacks, is resuming its plans for an initial public offering. The company had initially planned to hold its IPO last year but paused the process…
Meta announced on Wednesday that it will begin charging developers to run chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators are forcing the company to allow them. This move follows the company’s ban on third-party chatbots through the WhatsApp Business API,…
As AI tools have democratized software engineering, a new generation of users has emerged, eager to build their own apps. But just as large language models speed up the coding process, the old problems of hosting, security, and general DevOps…
AI data labeling startup Handshake has acquired the data label auditing startup Cleanlab. Handshake originally launched in 2013 as a platform for hiring recent college graduates. Approximately one year ago, the company expanded to launch a human data labeling business…
As AI tools have democratized software engineering, a new generation of users has emerged, eager to build their own apps. But just as large language models speed up the coding process, the old problems of hosting, security, and general dev…
The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an accident involving a Zoox autonomous vehicle that crashed into the driver’s side door of a parked car. Officers responded to the crash, which occurred at around 2 p.m. local time on January…
