AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025
The number of AI companion apps has grown more than 60% since 2024....
12 agosto, 2025
Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats
David Petrou, founding member of Google Goggles and Google Glass, wants to enhance group chats with AI....
12 agosto, 2025
Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised
Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer....
12 agosto, 2025
Anthropic’s Claude AI model can now handle longer prompts
Anthropic's popular coding model just became a little more enticing for developers with a million token context window....
12 agosto, 2025
In a world of vibe coding startups, Uno Platform is targeting enterprise developers
And its finding customers and investors, including $2.54 million in seed funding....
12 agosto, 2025
Anthropic takes aim at OpenAI, offers Claude to ‘all three branches of government’ for $1
Anthropic’s escalation – a response to OpenAI’s attempt to undercut the competition – is a strategic play meant to broaden the company’s foothold in federal AI usage. ...
12 agosto, 2025
Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories
Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it's now an entertainment company with 20 million users....
12 agosto, 2025
Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint
As more solid rocket motor suppliers are coming online, a supply chain chokepoint looms....
12 agosto, 2025
Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO
Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, as the startup looks to scale its commercial operations ahead of its planned launch of driverless trucks on public highways later this...
12 agosto, 2025
How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company
Nvidia's research lab developed the technology that took the company from a video game GPU startup to a $4 trillion-dollar company....
12 agosto, 2025
Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood
While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages, she’s at the center of it all....
12 agosto, 2025
TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global
Ultraviolette aims to expand its electric motorcycles to 40 European countries, as well as Latin America and Southeast Asia....
12 agosto, 2025
Pronto’s 10-minute house help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days
Pronto has raised $11 million in an all-equity Series A round co-led by General Catalyst and Glade Brook Capital at a post-money valuation of $45 million....
11 agosto, 2025
Seoul-based Datumo raises $15.5M to take on Scale AI, backed by Salesforce
Most organizations say they aren’t fully prepared to use generative AI in a safe and responsible way, according to a recent McKinsey report. One concern is explainability – understanding how and why AI makes certain decisions. While 40% of respondents view it as a significant...
11 agosto, 2025
Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder
This marks the first investment for Slow’s $60 million Creator Fund since its launch in February. The fund looks to help creators launch businesses, under the belief that what made them successful influencers is what can also make them a good founder. ...
11 agosto, 2025
OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt
GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure,” on Reddit....
11 agosto, 2025
WIRED Roundup: Unpacking OpenAI’s Government Partnership
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss the week's news, from bitcoin miners trying to beat Trump's tariffs to OpenAI's new deal with the US government....
11 agosto, 2025
Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks and invites to Gmail users
Ocean debuts an email app for Gmail users with triage tools, a task manager and more....
11 agosto, 2025
Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars
The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla....
11 agosto, 2025
Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter "reasoning" vision language model for physical AI applications and robots....
11 agosto, 2025
Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’
“Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some tough personnel choices, as Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead end,” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns, on Sunday....
11 agosto, 2025
Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut
The global AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it's about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange...
11 agosto, 2025
Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice
Apple is testing a version of Siri that will be able to take actions on your behalf across various apps by following voice commands. The company plans to release a new version of App Intents, its framework gives developers the ability to allow users access...
11 agosto, 2025
What Does Palantir Actually Do?
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it....
11 agosto, 2025
Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator
Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led...
11 agosto, 2025
Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy
Truemeds has taken a different route from other Indian online pharmacies — and it has helped the startup double its revenue....
10 agosto, 2025
The computer science dream has become a nightmare
Well, the coding-equals-prosperity promise has officially collapsed. Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% — more than double what biology and art history majors are experiencing, according to a recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York study. A crushing New...
10 agosto, 2025
Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
Truth Search AI appears to rely heavily on conservative outlet Fox News to answer even the most basic questions....
08 agosto, 2025
Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’
The Reddit AMA got spicy as users peppered OpenAI with questions, and some asked the company to bring back its previous model....
08 agosto, 2025
The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we're talking about why some chatbot subscriptions are so expensive and how these premium prices were determined on vibes more than anything substantial....
08 agosto, 2025
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