Why AI startups are taking data into their own hands
Where training sets were once scraped freely from the web or collected from low-paid annotators, companies are looking to proprietary training data as a competitive advantage.
The real reason Google DeepMind is working with a fusion energy startup
Google has invested in fusion startups as potential power suppliers. This latest move suggests Google sees them as potential customers, too.
Apple loses another AI exec to Meta
Yang’s departure marks the latest in a string of exits from Apple’s AI unit, putting the company into jeopardy in the lead up to a much-anticipated Siri revamp scheduled for March.
Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of ‘AI slop’ in your feed
Pinterest is rolling out new controls that let users limit how much AI-generated content appears in their feeds. The company is also making its AI content labels more visible.
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General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips
Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research lab that’s using that data to build AI…
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Spotify partners with record labels to create ‘artist-first’ AI music products
Spotify has announced new partnerships with major record labels — including Sony, Universal, Warner, and Merlin — to build “responsible AI” tools that protect artists’ rights and ensure fair compensation. The initiative will let artists…
Jack & Jill raises $20 million to bring conversational AI to job-hunting
Jack & Jill uses conversational AI to sidestep the listing and resumé shuffle. With $20 million in seed funding, the company is plotting its US expansion.
Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers
Viven’s seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital.