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Perplexity has acquired Visual Electric, an AI Design tool. Its team is going to lead a new agents experience group at Perplexity

Of the 25 offshore crypto exchanges targeted by India, 14 hold more than $9 billion in assets.

The tax credit’s expiration on September 30 motivated buyers to take advantage of the $7,500 incentive, giving Tesla a shot to return to sales growth in 2025.

Founder Bryan Onel says too many companies are doing the bare minimum to meet their security compliance obligations, and raised $33 million to help his customers get both compliant and secure.

Leverage Edu places over 10,000 students annually into universities across 11 countries.

The idea that Meta would secretly turn on the microphones on users’ phones to record their conversations is an age-old conspiracy theory — and one that the company has disputed before.

Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.

Current and former OpenAI researchers seem torn over how the company’s Sora app fits in with its broader mission.

The six-year-old firm’s third fund is nearly the size of it previous fund raised during the fintech boom in early 2022.

Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.

“Are bills like SB 53 the thing that will stop us from beating China? No,” said Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at youth-led advocacy group Encode AI. “I think it is just genuinely intellectually dishonest to say that that is the thing that will stop us in the race.”

Tilly Norwood is not real, but the company that created her hopes that she’s the first of many AI-generated stars.

The SPAC King’s newest, dubbed “American Exceptionalism,” went public with $345 million. But Chamath doesn’t want people to buy shares.

“Character.ai is freeriding off the goodwill of Disney’s famous marks and brands, and blatantly infringing Disney’s copyrights,” a Disney lawyer wrote.

Whizz has seen e-bike rentals drop by about 8% since National Guard troops arrived in the city.

California just made history as the first state to require AI safety transparency from the biggest labs in the industry. Governor Newsom signed SB 53 into law this week, mandating that AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic disclose, and stick to, their safety protocols. The decision is already sparking debate about whether other states will … Read more

OpenAI’s Sora app makes it too easy for people to create misleading AI content.

Waymo’s permit to test autonomous vehicles in New York City has been extended to the end of the year, giving the company a few more months to make it big in the Big Apple.

Eazewell helps families navigate end-of-life planning, from coordinating a funeral to cancelling someone’s mail, with the help of AI.

While the HR Tech Guideline was last valued at $1.15 billion, the sale will likely yield a profit for most investors.

Prickly Pear Health provides medical support for women’s brain health, a voice-first, AI-powered companion that helps women in their 30s to 50s navigate the hormonal changes that affect brain health.

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A startup called Deta is releasing a new app called Surf, which is a remix of an AI browser and NotebookLM.

Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight.

The Amazon Fresh grocery items will be available online and at Amazon Fresh stores.

The U.K. Home Office is seeking access to Apple users’ encrypted iCloud backups for a second time, after an earlier attempt failed earlier this year.

The June data breach of Canada’s second largest airline WestJet was blamed on the Scattered Spider hacking group.

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Spotify lets you take more control over your recommendations by excluding tracks from influencing your taste profile.

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.