[ad_1] The hardware world had a brutal week with iRobot, shineAnd Rad Power bikes all filed for bankruptcy. Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues and shifting markets, but together they tell a bigger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and […]

[ad_1] OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion in a funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at up to $830 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday The company aims to raise the funding by the end of the first quarter of next year, and it could ask sovereign wealth […]

[ad_1] It’s all hands on deck at Meta as the company develops new AI models under its super intelligence lab led by Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang. The company is now working on an image and video model codenamed ‘Mango’, along with a new text-based model known internally as ‘Avocado’. The Wall Street Journal reported. […]

[ad_1] Celeste Amadon and Asher Allen were working on an app that used AI to book restaurants for dates when they came across a bigger idea that encourages people to meet in person. And now it’s catching on with investors. The duo created a voice-activated AI onboarding system for their app that allowed them to […]

[ad_1] In its latest effort to address growing concerns about AI’s impact on young people, OpenAI on Thursday updated its guidelines for how its AI models should behave with users under 18, and published new AI literacy resources for teens and parents. Yet questions remain about how consistently such policies will translate into practice. The […]

[ad_1] The hardware world had a brutal week with iRobot, shineAnd Rad Power bikes all filed for bankruptcy. Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues and shifting markets, but together they tell a bigger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and […]

[ad_1] Renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun confirmed this on Thursday he had launched a new startup – the worst-kept secret in the tech world – although he said he will not lead the new company as CEO. His startup is called Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) and has Alex LeBrun, co-founder and CEO of medical transcription […]

[ad_1] AI coding assistant Cursor has announced that it has acquired Graphite, a startup that uses AI to review and debug code. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, Axios reported that Cursor paid “much more” than Graphite’s last valuation of $290 million, which was set when the five-year-old company raised a $52 million […]

[ad_1] Resolve AI, a startup developing an autonomous Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), a tool that automatically maintains software systems, has launched a Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to three people familiar with the deal. The nominal valuation for the new round is $1 billion, sources said. However, the company’s actual blended valuation […]

[ad_1] Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the RAISE Act, making New York the second US state to enact major AI safety legislation. State legislators passed the RAISE Act in June, but after lobbying from the technology industry Hochul suggested changes to reverse the bill. The New York Times reports this that Hochul ultimately agreed to […]