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After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV
Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.
View the articleOpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
View the articleDon’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him
The new exchanged-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.
View the articleFidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company ey...
View the articleOpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down
The move comes after Simo took significant medical leave. She will stay on as a part-time adviser.
View the articleOpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
View the articleAn AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
View the articleOpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.
View the articleElon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.
View the articleCan AI answer the $3 trillion question?
The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
View the articleMeta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI com...
View the articleCharles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups
In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facing early-stage founders today and the most common mistakes founders ...
View the articleNew York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
View the articleSlate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck
Slate has an answer for owners who have always want to drive a truck with bright crayon colors.
View the articleFanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem
The video call highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.
View the articleMercor is in talks for a $20B valuation
A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October.
View the articleGoogle will now disclose which ads are made with AI
While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required electio...
View the articleParis-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
View the articleAnthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5
Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.
View the articleHow did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?
"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
View the articleHow to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos
Meta's new AI image generator is using your public Instagram photos unless you opt out. Here's how to do that.
View the articleMeta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the chips are in production.
View the articleNvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created
Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the side...
View the articleThe 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers
The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.
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