Trending News: Improvements in ‘reasoning’ AI models may slow down soon, analysis findsAllTrails debuts $80/year membership that includes AI-powered smart routesMicrosoft Build 2025: What to expect, from Azure to Copilot upgradesEven a16z VCs say no one really knows what an AI agent isGoogle I/O 2025: How to watch all the AI and Android revealsSam Altman apparently does not respect olive oilSaudi prince launches AI venture as Trump, Musk, Altman, and Zuckerberg arrive for conferenceGoogle launches new initiative to back startups building AIGoogle’s Gemma AI models surpass 150M downloadsOpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly struggling to get off the ground, thanks to tariffsThis American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusualTrump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI trainingMicrosoft and OpenAI may be renegotiating their partnershipThe Backbone Pro controller makes mobile gaming worth the hassleAmazon offers peek at new human jobs in an AI bot worldOpenAI’s enterprise adoption appears to be accelerating, at the expense of rivalsA timeline of the U.S. semiconductor market in 2025The US is reviewing Benchmark’s investment into Chinese AI startup Manus Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user contentCoreWeave reportedly looks to raise $1.5B in debt as IPO disappointsMeta’s speeding up the ‘Mad Men to Math Men’ pipelineThis is your last chance to exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI — don’t miss outMicrosoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about codeGoogle launches ‘implicit caching’ to make accessing its latest AI models cheaperMeta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research labEx-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics ventureExhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions: AI while you still can! Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scamsSequoia leads $1.5B tender offer for sales automation startup ClayOpenAI launches a data residency program in AsiaAmazon’s newest AI tool is designed to enhance product listingsWhy Hims & Hers turned to the autonomous vehicle industry to find an AI-savvy CTOAsking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study findsInstacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAIFastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by KhoslaAnthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web searchOpenAI and the FDA are reportedly discussing AI for drug evaluationsAmazon debuts a warehouse robot with a sense of ‘touch’OpenAI wants to team up with governments to grow AI infrastructureApple is looking to add AI search engines to SafariServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up MoveworksMicrosoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agentsFigma releases new AI-powered tools for 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program to support scientific researchRork’s founders were almost broke when a viral tweet led to $2.8M and a16zPinterest updates visual search with more AI-powered featuresAnysphere, which makes Cursor, has reportedly raised $900M at $9B valuationIs Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AIGoogle’s Gemini has beaten Pokémon Blue (with a little help)How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackersAI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warnsApple and Anthropic reportedly partner to build an AI coding platformOne of Google’s recent Gemini AI models scores worse on safetyGoogle will soon start letting kids under 13 use its Gemini chatbotDamn, the Cluely ragebait got usGoogle’s NotebookLM Android and iOS apps are available for pre-orderOpenAI pledges to make changes to prevent future ChatGPT sycophancyAirbnb is quietly rolling out an AI customer service bot in the USReddit’s AI play is for the Google crowd, not just the community scrollersAmazon CEO says 100,000 users now have Alexa+FutureHouse releases AI tools it claims can accelerate scienceAi2’s new small AI model outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, MetaNvidia takes aim at Anthropic’s support of chip export controlsFivetran acquires Census to become end-to-end data movement platformAnthropic lets users connect more apps to ClaudeEpic Games is launching webshops to allow developers to circumvent app store fees after new rulingGoogle’s AI Mode gets expanded access and additional functionalityLast call to volunteer at TechCrunch Sessions: AIXbox consoles, controllers, and games are getting more expensiveFortnite plans return to the US iOS App Store next week
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Trending News: Improvements in ‘reasoning’ AI models may slow down soon, analysis findsAllTrails debuts $80/year membership that includes AI-powered smart routesMicrosoft Build 2025: What to expect, from Azure to Copilot upgradesEven a16z VCs say no one really knows what an AI agent isGoogle I/O 2025: How to watch all the AI and Android revealsSam Altman apparently does not respect olive oilSaudi prince launches AI venture as Trump, Musk, Altman, and Zuckerberg arrive for conferenceGoogle launches new initiative to back startups building AIGoogle’s Gemma AI models surpass 150M downloadsOpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly struggling to get off the ground, thanks to tariffsThis American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusualTrump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI trainingMicrosoft and OpenAI may be renegotiating their partnershipThe Backbone Pro controller makes mobile gaming worth the hassleAmazon offers peek at new human jobs in an AI bot worldOpenAI’s enterprise adoption appears to be accelerating, at the expense of rivalsA timeline of the U.S. semiconductor market in 2025The US is reviewing Benchmark’s investment into Chinese AI startup Manus Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user contentCoreWeave reportedly looks to raise $1.5B in debt as IPO disappointsMeta’s speeding up the ‘Mad Men to Math Men’ pipelineThis is your last chance to exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI — don’t miss outMicrosoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about codeGoogle launches ‘implicit caching’ to make accessing its latest AI models cheaperMeta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research labEx-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics ventureExhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions: AI while you still can! Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scamsSequoia leads $1.5B tender offer for sales automation startup ClayOpenAI launches a data residency program in AsiaAmazon’s newest AI tool is designed to enhance product listingsWhy Hims & Hers turned to the autonomous vehicle industry to find an AI-savvy CTOAsking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study findsInstacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAIFastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by KhoslaAnthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web searchOpenAI and the FDA are reportedly discussing AI for drug evaluationsAmazon debuts a warehouse robot with a sense of ‘touch’OpenAI wants to team up with governments to grow AI infrastructureApple is looking to add AI search engines to SafariServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up MoveworksMicrosoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agentsFigma releases new AI-powered tools for creating site, app prototypes, and marketing assetsMistral claims its newest AI model delivers leading performance for the priceMark Zuckerberg’s AI ad tool sounds like a social media nightmareAI data startup WisdomAI nabs $23M with a smart way to avoid hallucinationsGame, Sett, Funding: a startup building AI agents for game development emerges from stealth with $27MNetflix debuts its generative AI-powered search toolOx Security lands a fresh $60M to scan for vulnerabilities in codeAmazon is working on an AI code generation toolOpenAI expects to cut share of revenue it pays Microsoft by 2030Hugging Face releases a free Operator-like agentic AI toolReddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI botsIBM CEO urges the Trump Administration to increase — not cut — federal AI R&D fundingTechCrunch Sessions: AI welcomes Tanka CEO Kisson Lin to talk AI-native startupsFutureHouse previews an AI tool for ‘data-driven’ biology discoveryWhat OpenAI’s restructuring plan means for its corporate futureGoogle debuts an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model ahead of I/OGoogle’s new ‘Simplify’ feature for iOS uses AI to make dense text easier to understand Particle brings its AI-powered news reader to the webNewLimit, founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstorng, raises $130M to develop age-reversing treatmentsUnblocked raises $20M for AI to help devs understand codebasesRelevance AI raises $24M to help businesses build AI agentsBoosted by defense and Starlink, Orca AI pulls in $72.5M for its autonomous shipping platformAnduril is working on the difficult AI-related task of real-time edge computingGoogle accidentally reveals details about its new Android design language, Material 3 ExpressivePeople struggle to get useful health advice from chatbots, study finds11x CEO Hasan Sukkar steps downOver 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science educationOpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operationsAnthropic launches a program to support scientific researchRork’s founders were almost broke when a viral tweet led to $2.8M and a16zPinterest updates visual search with more AI-powered featuresAnysphere, which makes Cursor, has reportedly raised $900M at $9B valuationIs Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AIGoogle’s Gemini has beaten Pokémon Blue (with a little help)How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackersAI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warnsApple and Anthropic reportedly partner to build an AI coding platformOne of Google’s recent Gemini AI models scores worse on safetyGoogle will soon start letting kids under 13 use its Gemini chatbotDamn, the Cluely ragebait got usGoogle’s NotebookLM Android and iOS apps are available for pre-orderOpenAI pledges to make changes to prevent future ChatGPT sycophancyAirbnb is quietly rolling out an AI customer service bot in the USReddit’s AI play is for the Google crowd, not just the community scrollersAmazon CEO says 100,000 users now have Alexa+FutureHouse releases AI tools it claims can accelerate scienceAi2’s new small AI model outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, MetaNvidia takes aim at Anthropic’s support of chip export controlsFivetran acquires Census to become end-to-end data movement platformAnthropic lets users connect more apps to ClaudeEpic Games is launching webshops to allow developers to circumvent app store fees after new rulingGoogle’s AI Mode gets expanded access and additional functionalityLast call to volunteer at TechCrunch Sessions: AIXbox consoles, controllers, and games are getting more expensiveFortnite plans return to the US iOS App Store next week
Tue. May 13th, 2025 12:55:14 AM

Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series

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Amazon is introducing a new “Recaps” feature for Kindle users to help them recall plot points and character arcs before picking up the latest book in a series. While the company’s press release for the new feature doesn’t mention AI, Amazon confirmed to TechCrunch that recaps are AI-generated. “We use technology, including GenAI and Amazon […]

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