EV software unicorn Einride raises $100m to accelerate global expansion

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab: Six OpenAI veterans launch Tinker with $2B seed, $12B valuation

Robert Brown / implicator - Six OpenAI veterans including Mira Murati raised $2B at a $12B valuation to build Tinker, an API that democratizes frontier model fine-tuning. The bet: customization matters more than scale. The tension: access is curated, not open.

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Hollywood is not taking kindly to the AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - Tilly Norwood is not real, but the company that created her hopes that she's the first of many AI-generated stars.

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Microsoft 365 Puts Copilot Inside the Apps ⭐

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - For the past few years, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Pro have assumed the role implied by their names. That is, they were assistants that worked alongside the user, helping them with classic Office apps. Tied to this interaction model, these offering…

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OpenAI ropes in Samsung, SK Hynix to source memory chips for Stargate

Ram Iyer / techcrunch - OpenAI has struck agreements with two of the world's biggest manufacturers of memory chips, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, to make DRAM wafers for the Stargate AI infrastructure project, and build data centers in South Korea.

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Peloton Is Having Its Biggest Hardware Launch in Years

Adrienne So / wired - The company upgrades its entire hardware line and launches a new AI-powered cross training service.

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Meta inks $14.2bn deal with CoreWeave for its compute power

Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / siliconrepublic - The social media giant also plans to acquire chip start-up Rivos to strengthen its own semiconductor abilities.Read more: Meta inks $14.2bn deal with CoreWeave for its compute power

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Elon Musk's lawsuit should be thrown out, says Apple

appleinsider - Apple has asked for Elon Musk's specious lawsuit over it partnering with OpenAI, to be entirely dismissed.Elon Musk — image credit: TeslaIf Elon Musk is to be believed, he is convinced that once Apple partnered with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to Apple Intell…

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Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

Iain Thomson / theregister - Yep, we're sure that will win folks over Microsoft is testing talking avatars for Copilot to see if users feel more at ease chatting with a face instead of just a text box. Our US Editor tried them out, only to find the digital stare was more creepy than …

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Google launches AI ransomware detection in Drive desktop, trained on millions of attack samples

techspot - Google believes that the constantly evolving ransomware threat requires a novel approach to prevention and detection. To that end, the company has announced a new AI-powered anti-ransomware feature for its Drive desktop utility, designed to stop file-encr…

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AI Hyperscaler CoreWeave Signs $14.2 Billion Deal With Meta

PYMNTS / pymnts - Artificial intelligence hyperscaler CoreWeave announced a multibillion-dollar agreement with Meta days after reporting a deal with OpenAI. “Future AI innovations will be far bigger than they are today, so we’re building for them now,” CoreWeave said in a …

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California Signed A Landmark AI Safety Law. What To Know About SB53.

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AI Mode Knows When You Want Images Instead Of Text, And It Might Be A Game-Changing Google Search Feature

bgr - Google's new AI Mode update lets you perform visual searches in Google Search, as Gemini will know when you want to see images instead of reading text.

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Adobe Premiere on iPhone launches as a free video editor and alternate to CapCut

Matt Swider / theshortcut - AI tools and easy workflows make Adobe Premiere on iPhone

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Nothing launches AI tool for building mini apps using prompts

Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Nothing on Monday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known as Essential Apps.

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