Subtle Computing has raised $6M in seed funding to build voice isolation models. The startup plans to announce a hardware device next year....
Diffusion models already power AI image generators, but Inception thinks they can be even more powerful applied in software development....
India becomes the second market after the U.S. to get Gemini-powered navigation on Google Maps....
Snap said today that it has signed a deal with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to power a new chatbot. As part of the deal, Perplexity will pay Snap $400 million in cash and equity....
Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem....
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge....
Evotrex joins startups like Lightship, Pebble, and Grounded in trying to disrupt the RV market, which is skewing younger....
Lee declined to share Cluely's financial metrics just four months after boasting how quickly the startup is growing....
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth....
Apple is turning to Google's technology to help revamp Siri and power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant....
Even Rodgers spent a decade as an Air Force weapons officer watching China and Russia build space weapons while the U.S. had “nothing in our arsenal.” So he left the military to solve the problem himself. Now, as co-founder and CEO of True Anomaly, he’s building the first exclusively defense-focused space superiority company, developing...
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready says open source AI is offering cost savings to the company, particularly in visual search....
AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China....
Tinder is testing an AI feature that learns about you from your Camera Roll photos....
Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" -- a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini apps and share them with friends....
The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future....
Users will now be able to access AI Mode via a new dedicated shortcut button under the search bar when opening a "New Tab" page in Chrome....
Alloy Enterprises has developed a new additive manufacturing technique that can improve liquid cooling performance while bringing it to new parts of the server rack....
Google announced its intent to acquire cloud security company Wiz in March and the deal is now on track to close in early 2026....
SoftBank's joint venture with OpenAI that will localize and sell the AI company's enterprise tech to companies in Japan. And the first customer of this joint venture is going to be SoftBank itself....
Google is now baking Gemini into Maps to let users ask it questions while driving, improve navigation, and do more with the app....
A raft of voice-based hardware devices have emerged, aimed at companionship, productivity, or personal growth. These include card-shaped devices from Plaud and Pocket; pendants from Friend, Limitless, and Taya; and a wristband from Bee, which is now part of Amazon. Now, two former Meta employees...
MoEngage already has customers across 75 countries, with North America being its biggest business driver....
Qualcomm Ventures has joined six Indian venture firms, collectively adding more than $850 million to boost India’s deep-tech ecosystem....
Amazon won't allow agents on its site that don't identify themselves as such. Perplexity is not pleased....
People Inc. signs an AI licensing deal with Microsoft, which will use its media content in Copilot....
It's the second time this year Rivian has spun out a new company, after it created micromobility startup Also in March....
For example, you can ask "find me 2 cheap tickets for the Shaboozey concert coming up. prefer standing floor tickets." AI Mode will then search across multiple websites to find real-time ticket options that meet your specific requests....
The Sora app is now available for Android users in the US, Canada, and Japan, among other regions....
Shopify says AI-driven traffic to its online stores is up 7x since January, and orders from AI search are up 11x....