Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a new AI agent startup, and already raised $10 million. Vine Ventures led the round, with Z Fellows founder Cory Levy and Collective Global participating. In…
Earlier in April, Google released an AI-powered dictation tool that worked with local models. Now, the same team has released a new competitor to the AI note-taker Granola and others, which it calls Google AI Edge Foresight. The Mac app…
Chinese AI lab Manus’ parent company, Butterfly Effect, said on Thursday in a WeChat post that it has raised more than $500 million, the company’s first funding round since Meta was forced to call off its $2 billion acquisition of…
AI can write your emails, generate your code, and argue with you about dinner. Predicting what happens inside a living cell requires a different kind of homework. Biohub is organizing a $1.8 billion effort to generate that homework at an…
The AI model that does your most impressive work gets all the attention. The one that quietly runs thousands of background tasks gets the bill. That makes Claude Haiku 5.5 worth a closer look. Anthropic’s smaller model line has often…
Google is pushing to make its advanced AI watermarking tool, SynthID, an industry standard for identifying content generated by artificial intelligence. Originally developed by Google DeepMind to embed invisible markers directly into AI-generated images, audio, text, and video, SynthID is now being made widely available to developers. This move aims to combat the rising tide of misinformation and deepfakes by allowing platforms and users to easily verify the authenticity of digital media. By encouraging broad adoption across the tech ecosystem, Google hopes to create a unified defense against deceptive synthetic content.
OpenAI has reportedly advanced its conversational AI capabilities with the development of GPT-6, showcasing surprisingly practical technical skills. Beyond traditional text generation, the new model can now autonomously build functional digital calculators from scratch based on simple user prompts. This breakthrough highlights the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence from a basic chat interface into a versatile, application-building tool. While OpenAI continues to refine these advanced systems, this milestone points toward a future where coding and software creation become instantly accessible to everyday users through natural conversation.
Ask ChatGPT to split a dinner bill, and the answer can now include a tool you operate inside the conversation. Ask how something works, and you might get a diagram you can explore. With Intelligent UI, OpenAI is expanding what…
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to play a larger role in how teenagers study and prepare for college, while Common Sense Media is urging the company to pause teen access until its safeguards perform more consistently under independent testing. On October 7,…
Nous Research, the startup developing the open source Hermes Agent, has raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting. The round was led by Robot Ventures, with participation from other backers including Nvidia,…