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Funding rounds, acquisitions, and emerging companies pushing the boundaries of AI innovation.

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ParaRNN: Large-Scale Nonlinear RNNs, Trainable in Parallel

ParaRNN: Large-Scale Nonlinear RNNs, Trainable in Parallel

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are naturally suited to efficient inference, requiring far less memory and compute than attention-based architectures…

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Read the full story to learn more.

When ChatGPT launched as an experimental prototype in late 2022, OpenAI’s chatbot became an everyday everything app for hundreds of millions of people…

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Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal

Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal

After Anthropic refused to allow the DoD to use its AI for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Google has signed a new contract with th…

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Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.

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DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data

DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data

Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding…

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More Gemini features are coming to Google TV

More Gemini features are coming to Google TV

Google TV just got more Gemini features, including the ability to transform photos and videos with tools Nano Banana and Veo.

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Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One

Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One

Google added 25M paid subscriptions in Q1, reaching 350M total, as YouTube and Google One grow.

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Lovable launches its vibe-coding app on iOS and Android

Lovable launches its vibe-coding app on iOS and Android

The app allows developers to vibe code web apps and websites on the go.

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YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature that shows guided answers

YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature that shows guided answers

YouTube is rolling out the new AI search feature to Premium subscribers in the U.S. on an opt-in basis.

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Otter’s new feature lets users search across their enterprise tools

Otter’s new feature lets users search across their enterprise tools

With this launch, users can connect their Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce accounts and query that data along with existing meeting d…

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Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

The AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has raised $100 million, led by Sequoia, months after raising a previous $100 mi…

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Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp

Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp

We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that can help individual soldiers control fleets of autonomous vehicles.

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