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The AI-powered notetaking app Granola, valued at $1.5 billion, has become a popular tool among tech industry founders and VCs. But one developer believes there’s demand for a more private, local-only alternative that’s available for a one-time fee and without a subscription.
OpenAI said Tuesday it is releasing a set of prompts that developers can use to make their apps safer for teens.
Google unveiled three Gemini-powered features for Google TV on Tuesday, including AI-powered visual responses, the ability to deep dive into virtually any topic, and narrated overviews of sports games. A particularly noteworthy addition is the introduction of visual responses.
OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT into an e-commerce hub aren’t exactly panning out — at least, not yet.
Storied semiconductor and software company Arm Holdings is starting to make its own chips after nearly 36 years of licensing its designs to companies like Nvidia and Apple. At an event Tuesday in San Francisco, the company revealed the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready chip built for running inference
With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced on Tuesday that it was launching a new security product called Lakewatch.
At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that allows artists to review releases before they go live on their profiles.
For developers using AI, “vibe coding” right now comes down to babysitting every action or risking letting the model run unchecked.
Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy’s Defender, she worried that people would think she was an “old fuddy duddy” still sounding alarms about government spying online. As o
OpenAI is preparing to shut down Sora, the video-generation app that drew widespread attention when it launched in late 2024. OpenAI announced the move in a social media post Tuesday just after a Wall Street Journal story broke the news.
Mozilla developer Peter Wilson has taken to the Mozilla.ai blog to announce cq, which he describes as “Stack Overflow for agents.” The nascent project hints at something genuinely useful, but it will have to address security, data poisoning, and accuracy to achieve significant adoption. It’s meant t
of Defense appears to be illegally punishing Anthropic for trying to restrict the use of its AI tools by the military, US district judge Rita Lin said during a court hearing on Tuesday.“It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic,” Lin said of the Pentagon designating the company a supply-chain ri
For generations, Ida Huddleston and her family have owned a farm in northern Kentucky. And they’ve turned down at least one multimillion-dollar offer to preserve it. Last year, a “major artificial intelligence company” offered them $26 million to sell part of their farm for a proposed data center, a
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it is shutting down Sora, a TikTok-like social app that launched six months ago.
Kleiner Perkins, the prominent U.S. venture firm, announced on Tuesday that it raised $3.5 billion in fresh capital across two funds, a significant increase from the firm’s $2 billion fundraise less than two years ago. The firm, founded back in 1972, says it raised $1 billion for its 22nd early-stag
AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the biggest protest against AI to date.
AI agents are starting to take on a more direct role in how financial advice is delivered, as large banks move into systems that support client interactions.Bank of America is now deploying an internal AI-powered advisory platform to a subset of financial advisers, rolled out to around 1,000 financi
half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED’s photographer first asked him to assume this position.
Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window-cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now. While many companies are trying to build humanoids or tout demos of their robots dancing and doing flips, Lucid Bots’ drones are out in
