The Middle East Has Entered the AI Group Chat
The UAE and Saudi Arabia are investing billions in US AI infrastructure. The deals could help the US in the AI race against China....
15 maio, 2025
Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code
Microsoft's Washington layoffs hit coders hardest as the tech giant embraces AI....
15 maio, 2025
Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday. Claude hallucinated the citation with “an inaccurate title...
15 maio, 2025
Startups Weekly: A brighter outlook, but don’t get carried away
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Startup news this week was fairly routine — in a good way: Aside from a minor kerfuffle...
15 maio, 2025
Cognichip emerges from stealth with the goal of using generative AI to develop new chips
Chips are a critical component of the AI industry. But new chips don’t hit the market with the same speed as new AI models and products do. Cognichip has a lofty goal of creating a foundational AI model that can help bring new chips to...
15 maio, 2025
US Tech Visa Applications Are Being Put Through the Wringer
Silicon Valley’s coveted work visas are under heavy scrutiny from the Trump administration, and immigration lawyers say requests for documentation are increasing....
15 maio, 2025
Google rolls out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome
Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome. Most notably, TalkBack, Android’s screen reader, now lets you ask Gemini about what’s in images and what’s on your screen. Last year, Google brought Gemini’s capabilities to TalkBack...
15 maio, 2025
Bain bets on Indian domestic work startup Pronto even as rivals face criticism
Pronto, which provides cleaning, laundry and home services within 10 minutes, has raised $2M at a $12.5M valuation....
15 maio, 2025
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15 maio, 2025
Sprinter Health raises $55M to expand its at-home healthcare service
The Series B was led by General Catalyst, with Andreessen Horowitz, Regents of the University of California, Google Ventures, and Accel also investing....
15 maio, 2025
Acorns acquires family wealth and digital memory platform EarlyBird
Savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired EarlyBird, an investment gifting platform for families, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, EarlyBird will shut down, and all customer accounts will officially close on...
15 maio, 2025
Hedra, the app used to make talking baby podcasts, raises $32M from a16z
Hedra, which offers a video generation and editing suite powered by its Character-3 model, has raised $32M....
15 maio, 2025
Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug
As the FDA halts the sale of Ozempic and Zepbound copycats, online clinics have begun offering liraglutide, an older GLP-1 medication injected daily instead of weekly....
15 maio, 2025
Harvey reportedly in discussions to raise $250M at $5B valuation
Harvey AI is in discussions to raise more than $250 million in a funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue that would value it at $5 billion, Reuters reported...
15 maio, 2025
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’
In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa....
14 maio, 2025
Grok is unpromptedly telling X users about South African genocide
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok appeared to experience a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to dozens of posts on X with information about genocide in South Africa, even when the user didn’t ask anything about the subject. The strange responses stem from...
14 maio, 2025
OpenAI brings its GPT-4.1 models to ChatGPT
OpenAI is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini AI models in ChatGPT, the company announced in a post on X Wednesday. The GPT-4.1 models should help software engineers who are using ChatGPT to write or debug code, OpenAI spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo told TechCrunch. GPT-4.1 excels...
14 maio, 2025
Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected....
14 maio, 2025
Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected....
14 maio, 2025
Unpacking Rippling vs Deel: corporate espionage and a $16.8B plot twist
Despite courtroom chaos, Rippling is still going full steam ahead. The HR tech startup at the center of an increasingly dramatic legal battle with rival Deel just raised a fresh $450 million in funding at a $16.8 billion valuation, and launched a new “Startup Stack”...
14 maio, 2025
SoundCloud backtracks on AI-related terms-of-use updates
SoundCloud says it’s revising its terms after widespread backlash over a clause related to AI model training. Earlier this year, SoundCloud quietly updated its usage policies, adding wording that many users interpreted as legal cover to allow the company to train AI on audio uploaded to...
14 maio, 2025
OpenAI pledges to publish AI safety test results more often
OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is pitching as an effort to increase transparency. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched the Safety evaluations hub, a web page showing how the company’s models score...
14 maio, 2025
Stability AI releases an audio-generating model that can run on smartphones
AI startup Stability AI has released Stable Audio Open Small, a “stereo” audio-generating AI model that the company claims is the fastest on the market — and efficient enough to run on smartphones. Stable Audio Open Small is the fruit of a collaboration between Stability...
14 maio, 2025
OpenAI may build data centers in the UAE
OpenAI is reportedly considering building data centers in the United Arab Emirates to greatly expand its Middle East footprint. A deal could be announced as soon as this week, according to Bloomberg. As Bloomberg notes, OpenAI has a long relationship with the UAE. In 2023,...
14 maio, 2025
Google DeepMind’s AI Agent Dreams Up Algorithms Beyond Human Expertise
A new system that combines Gemini’s coding abilities with an evolutionary approach improves datacenter scheduling, chip design, and fine-tune large language models....
14 maio, 2025
DeepMind claims its newest AI tool is a whiz at math and science problems
Google’s AI R&D lab, DeepMind says it has developed a new AI system to tackle problems with “machine-gradeable” solutions. In experiments, the system, called AlphaEvolve, could help optimize some of the infrastructure Google uses to train its AI models, DeepMind said. The company says it’s...
14 maio, 2025
Google’s Gemini chatbot can now more easily analyze GitHub projects
Gemini, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, can now connect to GitHub — for users subscribed to the $20-per-month Gemini Advanced plan, that is. As of Wednesday, Gemini Advanced customers can directly add a public or private codebase on GitHub to Gemini to allow the chatbot to generate...
14 maio, 2025
Tensor9 helps vendors deploy their software into any environment using digital twins
Enterprises want access to new software and AI tools but can’t risk sending their sensitive data out to a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Tensor9 looks to help software companies land more enterprise customers by helping them deploy their software directly into a customer’s tech stack....
14 maio, 2025
Databricks to buy open-source database startup Neon for $1B
Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said acquiring Neon’s tech would let it combine the startup’s serverless relational database management system...
14 maio, 2025
TensorWave raises $100M to grow its AMD-powered cloud infrastructure
TensorWave, a data center provider building facilities primarily with AMD hardware, has raised $100 million as it seeks to further build out its data center infrastructure. The funding round was led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, and brings the company’s total capital raised to $146.7...
14 maio, 2025
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