A new iOS app called Reelful uses AI to automatically turn photos and video clips from your camera roll into polished TikTok- and Instagram Reels-style videos for social media. Reelful is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional...

Voice AI startups’ biggest unlock has been handling calls for enterprises in areas like sales, marketing and customer support. Large organizations are offloading calls to voice model developers like ElevenLabs and Deepgram; infrastructure companies like Vapi, Retell,...

Vint Cerf says his favorite place is where he’s never been before. One of the architects of the protocols behind the open internet, Cerf left Google after 20 years last week, but he’s not done thinking about the digital future. Starting today, he’s advising Innovation...

Indian AI coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in six months. The funding round was led by private equity firm Creaegis. New investors MNI Ventures-Claypond, Sentinel...

Realta Fusion has spent the last two years looking for somewhere to build its research and development facility. In the end, it chose the old Oscar Mayer factory in Madison, Wisconsin. “From sausages to fusion,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion,...

Google Images, the tech giant’s image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a browsable, dynamic gallery of images from across the web. Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it...

New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today that temporarily bars the state from approving new permits for large projects. Hochul’s order applies to data centers 50 megawatts or larger,...

The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in the global telecoms infrastructure to locate U.S. military personnel in the build-up to the Iran War, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to Financial Times. The Iranian government...

I would’ve bought a wearable health tracker a lot sooner if they all weren’t so ugly. I don’t want a glowing screen on my wrist, and the woven Whoop bracelet looks like something I would’ve made at summer camp. But in the last few months, both RingConn and Oura have...

For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was fixated on Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight to control who was granted access to them. But while everyone was watching the frontier, developers kept building — and they weren’t waiting around...

A domain used by the messaging app Telegram mysteriously dropped offline on Monday, with the app’s founder, Pavel Durov, saying in an X post that t.me links had “stopped working.” The outage prevented users from accessing the t.me domain shortlink, used by the...

In an X post on Tuesday morning, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a new regulatory body to oversee frontier model releases. Titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,” the post makes the case for a “standards body”...