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TikTok now wants to be the place you book the trip you just saw on TikTok
TikTok announced on Tuesday that it’s launching TikTok GO, a way for users to discover and book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly within its app. The new offering is launching in the U.S. and is available to users 18 years and older. TikTok GO surfaces...
Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool
New types of design tools, such as Perpexity-owned Visual Electric, Figma-owned Weavy, Flora, and Krea, have risen in popularity in the last few years, thanks to AI. These tools bank on the promise that, with AI, a product team with designers can iterate through...
Spotify’s launches a Wrapped-style recap of your entire listening history
Spotify’s yearly Wrapped recap provides users a glimpse into their favorite artists and what they listened to most that year. As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, the streaming service is now releasing a limited-time feature that surfaces various facts about...
AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals
Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors before choosing startup Vapi to handle its inbound phone traffic. Today, Ring routes 100% of its inbound calls through Vapi’s platform....
Is your enterprise adaptive to AI?
Presented by EdgeVerveFor most enterprises, AI adoption began with a straightforward ambition: automate work faster, cheaper, and at scale. Chatbots replaced basic service requests, machine‑learning models optimized forecasts, and analytics dashboards promised sharper...
Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interrupt you. Right now, every AI model you’ve ever used works the same...
Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO
Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second. The company has filed a confidential registration for RVII, a standard regulatory step that allows it to work through the approval process before...
GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and making room for some with AI-focused backgrounds. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it...
Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new ‘interaction models’
Is AI leaving the era of "turn-based" chat?Right now, all of us who use AI models regularly for work or in our personal lives know that the basic interaction mode across text, imagery, audio, and video remains the same: the human user provides an input, waits anywhere...
A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters
When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t be fully set up until later in the year—potentially November. Still, the big (and for now,...
Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots
Amazon has confirmed that it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a two-year-old startup founded by former Meta and Google engineers who are developing kid-size humanoid robots. The acquisition was first reported by Bloomberg. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. What we do...
With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI
Kleiner Perkins, the prominent U.S. venture firm, announced on Tuesday that it raised $3.5 billion in fresh capital across two funds, a significant increase from the firm’s $2 billion fundraise less than two years ago. The firm, founded back in 1972, says it raised $1...
New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety, and the rest of the country is watching
A jury in Santa Fe on Tuesday ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties after finding the company misled consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangered children. New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez’s office called the decision a “watershed...
Lululemon bets Epoch Biodesign can eat its shorts, literally
As the world electrifies, the oil and gas industry is counting on plastics to drive profits in the future. But not if Jacob Nathan has anything to say about it. Nathan started searching for a way to break down plastics when he was still in high school. Now, as founder...
OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it is shutting down Sora, a TikTok-like social app that launched six months ago. OpenAI did not give a reason for the shut down, nor did it share information about when it will officially be discontinued. When Sora first opened up as...
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its powerful AI video model, app and API
OpenAI is shuttering Sora, its stand-alone AI video generation app and social network, and the availability for developers to access the Sora 2 video model family through its application programming interface (API) to rely on it for their own products or video...
Anthropic hands Claude Code more control, but keeps it on a leash
For developers using AI, “vibe coding” right now comes down to babysitting every action or risking letting the model run unchecked. Anthropic says its latest update to Claude aims to eliminate that choice by letting the AI decide which actions are safe to take on its...
Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop from being attributed to real artists
At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that allows artists to review releases before they go live on their profiles. The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control...
Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product
With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced on Tuesday that it was launching a new security...
Crusoe makes big battery buys for its data centers
Data center developer Crusoe is ramping up its energy storage capacity with battery buys from Form Energy and Redwood Energy. The company said it will buy 12 gigawatt-hours of Form Energy’s 100-hour batteries. It’s the second large sale made by Form, which last month...
Anthropic’s Claude can now control your Mac, escalating the fight to build AI agents that actually do work
Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typing into fields, and navigating software on the user's behalf while they step...
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The World Is Moving From Quantity To Quality Link Building
A long time ago – early 2000s, off-the-page links were heavily used in determining how popular or over the top SEO your website could be. Links were used as ‘votes’ to determine how high up the search engines would rank a website or a blog. This led to unscrupulous...
You Need to Know About Machine Learning’s Value for Solar
In today’s eco-conscious culture, “solar energy” is a buzzword phrase no longer merely embraced by self-professed tree huggers. Businesses and individuals alike are turning toward solar energy and away from fossil fuels, but the associated costs are still too high for...
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