Wispr, a startup known for its AI dictation tool, raised $280 million in Series B funding, led by Menlo Ventures, at a $2 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. The funds will allow Wispr to increase its footprint as it ventures into new areas, such as meetings, with its newly released note-taker tool. With … Devamını oku
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word essay this week declaring that“The Future is for Everyone”and painting an optimistic picture of a future powered by AI, where “everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about.” On the latest episode ofTechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, … Devamını oku
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter,according to a new report in Bloomberg. OpenRouter helps customers to select different AI models to perform different tasks, depending on their specific needs and budget. The company announced in May that it hadraised a $113 million Series B, at a reported $1.3 billion valuation. (Investors include Sequoia, … Devamını oku
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently pushed back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of artificial intelligence and how it might shape the future. Amodei’s comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued — bothon the All-In podcastandon X— that Amodei’s warnings about the dangers of AI have helped … Devamını oku
A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI over the role the company’s chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material. According toa report in The Washington Post, the woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo taken … Devamını oku
Anthropic publisheda blog postFriday seeking to answer some basic questions about how it will watermark the text generated by its chatbot Claude. Such as: How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code? Claude users have been debating the move since the companyrevealed earlier this weekthat … Devamını oku
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according toan announcement on the Cursor blog. Elon Musk’s SpaceX — which also acquired Musk’s xAI earlier this year —announced a deal in Aprilfor the companies to develop technology together; the deal also gave SpaceX the option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Two … Devamını oku
Googleannouncedon Friday that it will now allow users to remove a visible watermark from its AI generations, including images, videos, and songs. The company specified that this won’t affect the invisibleSynthID watermarkand C2PA standard-related metadata. The change reflects an evolving approach to labeling AI-generated media, as visible watermarks can often make content less useful for … Devamını oku
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongsidea letter from Mark Zuckerbergarguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s … Devamını oku
After years of snapping up wind and solar developments, hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are betting that natural gas will power the data centers behind their lofty AI ambitions. But a new research report suggests they may regret theirnewfound affinity for the fossil fuel. Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of … Devamını oku