Trending News: AI companies upped their federal lobbying spend in 2024 amid regulatory uncertaintyElevenLabs has raised a new round at $3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources sayStargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venturePeople are benchmarking AI by having it make balls bounce in rotating shapesThe AI industry’s pace has researchers stressedHow are founders positioning themselves for the next 4 years?Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identityMark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-endOpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needsReliance plans world’s biggest AI data centre in India, report saysEven some of the best AI can’t beat this new benchmarkOpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 daysAnthropic’s new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errorsEpic brings third-party titles to its mobile game storeOpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into StargateOpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into StargatePerplexity launches an assistant for AndroidRoli releases a 49-key educational keyboard and generative AI playOpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomouslyChatGPT suffered a major outage this morning, but OpenAI says it’s back upMeta’s Yann LeCun predicts a ‘new AI architectures paradigm’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kindCoval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving carsFundraise Up claims its AI can boost nonprofit donationsOpenAI may preview its agent tool for users on the $200 per month Pro planNeko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuationSomeone bought the domain ‘OGOpenAI’ and redirected it to a Chinese AI labMicrosoft’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff saysThis Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantageSamsung Unpacked: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 will support Content Credentials to identify AI-generated imagesSamsung Unpacked 2025 live updates: Galaxy S25, new AI features, and moreElon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over StargateGoogle makes Circle to Search more helpfulSamsung Galaxy S25 line comparedSamsung’s Galaxy S25 arrives with a better Google GeminiSamsung’s SmartThings to introduce AI features that simplify your daily routinesAI apps saw over $1 billion in consumer spending in 2024Anthropic reportedly secures an additional $1B from GoogleAI’s $100 billion impact: 2024’s venture capital surge and the road ahead for startupsTechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates everDatabricks closes $15.3B financing at $62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’Postman launches an AI agent builder on top of its API platformDoti gives enterprises a flexible AI-powered search experience to unlock their data silosSales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memesLindus Health raises $55M to ‘fix the broken clinical trial industry’Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platformMicrosoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud providerOpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center projectScale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AIPerplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI searchMistral AI plans IPOUK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAIAnthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for ClaudePresident Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive orderUK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracyFriend delays shipments of its AI companion pendantOpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing releaseAt the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnelDeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarksHere are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025AI vision startup Metropolis is buying Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M, sources sayThe Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAIAI isn’t very good at history, new paper findsFTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concernsAmazon suspends US drone deliveries following crash at testing facilityAI startup Character AI tests games on the webPerplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionalsOpenAI is trying to extend human life, with help from a longevity startup$200M woolly mammoths and a farewell to TikTokNord Security founders launch Nexos.ai to help enterprises take AI projects from pilot to productionDespite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data provesApple pauses AI notification summaries for news after generating false alertsNvidia releases more tools and guardrails to nudge enterprises to adopt AI agentsNintendo unveils the Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo teases Mario Kart as first Switch 2 titleMistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le ChatIn AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defenseChinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s bestMore teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faultsMeta adds 200 megawatts of solar to its 12 gigawatt renewable portfolioOpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new marketsTikTok owner ByteDance powered an e-reader’s unhinged AI assistantThis Week in AI: Will Biden’s AI actions survive the Trump era?AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGIGoogle inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to GeminiAs Gen Z job applicants balloon, companies are turning to AI agent recruitersGoogle raises the price of Workspace plans, includes its AI features for freeRockfish is helping enterprises leverage synthetic dataOpenAI tests phone number-only ChatGPT signupsMicrosoft’s newest Copilot plan for business is pay-as-you-goSynthesia snaps up $180M at a $2.1B valuation for its B2B AI video platformNvidia backs MetAI, a Taiwanese startup that creates AI-powered digital twinsMeta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 internally, court filings revealNintendo Switch 2 could be announced this week: The rumors (and facts) so farGoogle’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humansOpenAI appoints BlackRock exec to its boardBiden administration opens up federal land to AI data centersApple joins consortium to help develop next-gen AI data center techChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks
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Trending News: AI companies upped their federal lobbying spend in 2024 amid regulatory uncertaintyElevenLabs has raised a new round at $3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources sayStargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venturePeople are benchmarking AI by having it make balls bounce in rotating shapesThe AI industry’s pace has researchers stressedHow are founders positioning themselves for the next 4 years?Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identityMark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-endOpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needsReliance plans world’s biggest AI data centre in India, report saysEven some of the best AI can’t beat this new benchmarkOpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 daysAnthropic’s new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errorsEpic brings third-party titles to its mobile game storeOpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into StargateOpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into StargatePerplexity launches an assistant for AndroidRoli releases a 49-key educational keyboard and generative AI playOpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomouslyChatGPT suffered a major outage this morning, but OpenAI says it’s back upMeta’s Yann LeCun predicts a ‘new AI architectures paradigm’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kindCoval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving carsFundraise Up claims its AI can boost nonprofit donationsOpenAI may preview its agent tool for users on the $200 per month Pro planNeko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuationSomeone bought the domain ‘OGOpenAI’ and redirected it to a Chinese AI labMicrosoft’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff saysThis Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantageSamsung Unpacked: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 will support Content Credentials to identify AI-generated imagesSamsung Unpacked 2025 live updates: Galaxy S25, new AI features, and moreElon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over StargateGoogle makes Circle to Search more helpfulSamsung Galaxy S25 line comparedSamsung’s Galaxy S25 arrives with a better Google GeminiSamsung’s SmartThings to introduce AI features that simplify your daily routinesAI apps saw over $1 billion in consumer spending in 2024Anthropic reportedly secures an additional $1B from GoogleAI’s $100 billion impact: 2024’s venture capital surge and the road ahead for startupsTechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates everDatabricks closes $15.3B financing at $62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’Postman launches an AI agent builder on top of its API platformDoti gives enterprises a flexible AI-powered search experience to unlock their data silosSales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memesLindus Health raises $55M to ‘fix the broken clinical trial industry’Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platformMicrosoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud providerOpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center projectScale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AIPerplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI searchMistral AI plans IPOUK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAIAnthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for ClaudePresident Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive orderUK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracyFriend delays shipments of its AI companion pendantOpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing releaseAt the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnelDeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarksHere are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025AI vision startup Metropolis is buying Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M, sources sayThe Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAIAI isn’t very good at history, new paper findsFTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concernsAmazon suspends US drone deliveries following crash at testing facilityAI startup Character AI tests games on the webPerplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionalsOpenAI is trying to extend human life, with help from a longevity startup$200M woolly mammoths and a farewell to TikTokNord Security founders launch Nexos.ai to help enterprises take AI projects from pilot to productionDespite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data provesApple pauses AI notification summaries for news after generating false alertsNvidia releases more tools and guardrails to nudge enterprises to adopt AI agentsNintendo unveils the Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo teases Mario Kart as first Switch 2 titleMistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le ChatIn AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defenseChinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s bestMore teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faultsMeta adds 200 megawatts of solar to its 12 gigawatt renewable portfolioOpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new marketsTikTok owner ByteDance powered an e-reader’s unhinged AI assistantThis Week in AI: Will Biden’s AI actions survive the Trump era?AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGIGoogle inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to GeminiAs Gen Z job applicants balloon, companies are turning to AI agent recruitersGoogle raises the price of Workspace plans, includes its AI features for freeRockfish is helping enterprises leverage synthetic dataOpenAI tests phone number-only ChatGPT signupsMicrosoft’s newest Copilot plan for business is pay-as-you-goSynthesia snaps up $180M at a $2.1B valuation for its B2B AI video platformNvidia backs MetAI, a Taiwanese startup that creates AI-powered digital twinsMeta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 internally, court filings revealNintendo Switch 2 could be announced this week: The rumors (and facts) so farGoogle’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humansOpenAI appoints BlackRock exec to its boardBiden administration opens up federal land to AI data centersApple joins consortium to help develop next-gen AI data center techChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks
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