Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation
Lovable has seen its valuation more than triple just five months after the company’s last funding round in July.
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Amazon’s new Alexa+ feature adds conversational AI to Ring doorbells
Amazon said that the feature uses the Ring doorbell’s video descriptions to determine who the person in front the camera is based on their uniform, actions, and what they are holding.
It’s the great AGI rebrand
The cringe comes for us all, and for all our hot new turns of phrase. “Rizz” lost its luster when grandparents started asking about its meaning. Teachers who dressed up as “6-7” on Halloween drove a nail into the coffin of Gen Alpha’s rallying cry. And tech CEOs who once trumpeted the quest for “artificial […]
The ChatGPT app store is here
On Wednesday evening, OpenAI launched an App Directory to browse all the tools currently available and opened its SDK for developers to build new interactive experiences that operate within the bot’s UI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last month that “We are planning to build the obvious features that you would expect for a robust […]
Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training
The lawsuit is just the latest in a string of copyright-related legal complaints aimed at the AI industry.
Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fired off a letter on Tuesday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and several major data center developers to investigate the impact they’re having on Americans’ utility bills. The move comes as rising electricity rates became an increasingly hot-button issue in the US, which […]
Amazon has a new leader for its ‘AGI’ group as it plays catch-up on AI
Amazon’s head of artificial general intelligence (AGI), Rohit Prasad, is leaving the company next year as it reaches an “inflection point” in its development of the technology, CEO Andy Jassy announced on Wednesday. As part of the change, Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president at Amazon Web Services, will helm a new division focused on […]
AI toys are telling kids how to find knives, and senators are mad
Sexual fetish content. How to light a match. Where to find knives in the home. These are all conversation topics that recently-recalled children’s toys – built atop AI chatbots like OpenAI’s GPT-4o – are capable of bringing up to children. On Tuesday, U.S. senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter to […]
Amazon appoints longtime AWS exec Peter DeSantis to lead new AI org
DeSantis has spent 27 years at Amazon, including eight years as an SVP for AWS, the cloud provider that powers about one-third of the internet.
Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space
Tech billionaires have been obsessed with space for a long time. Now, as the largest AI companies race to build more data centers in a frenzied pursuit of profitability, space is looking less like a pet project and more like a commercial opportunity. In 2025 alone, six proposals for giant AI data centers needing multiple […]