Google teams up with Accel to hunt for India’s next AI breakouts
Google has partnered with Accel to find and fund India’s earliest-stage AI startups in a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Google AI Futures Fund, launched earlier…
Category: Ai/Robotics
Altman describes OpenAI’s forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone
“When people see it, they say, ‘that’s it?… It’s so simple.” That’s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes how he thinks people will respond to…
OpenAI learned the hard way that Cameo trademarked the word ‘cameo’
OpenAI’s social app Sora launched with a controversial feature called Cameo, allowing users to deepfake themselves or others (with permission). The feature had a tenuous…
Sweetgreen sells Spyce robotics unit to Wonder for $186.4M
One of Sweetgreen’s automated restaurants in Naperville, Ill. | Source: Sweetgreen Salad and bowl restaurant chain Sweetgreen Inc. this month sold its Spyce robotics business…
Hands on with Stickerbox, the AI-powered sticker maker for kids
There’s a new AI-powered toy for kids called Stickerbox, and, before you groan, I’m here to report that it’s surprisingly fun. Stickerbox, a product born…
AWS is spending $50B build AI infrastructure for the US government
Amazon Web Services is making a sizable new investment in infrastructure designed to boost AI capabilities for U.S. government organizations. AWS announced Monday it is…
Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations
On Monday, Anthropic announced Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model. It’s the last of Anthropic’s 4.5 series of models to be released,…
A new AI benchmark tests whether chatbots protect human wellbeing
AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human…
Former MrBeast content strategist is building an AI tool for creator ideation and analytics
Short videos are in high demand. Across large platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, users are watching billions of videos every day, with companies…
Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing
Product demos get all the attention, but software development more often involves things like debugging, quality assurance and testing. It’s the dull but critical work…