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Roblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile app

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Roblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

Lauren Forristal 1 month ago

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Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years

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Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years

BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20-year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.

Tim De Chant 1 month ago

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Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint

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Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint

Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s largest food delivery platforms outside China.

Kirsten Korosec 1 month ago

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Newsletter platform Beehiiv’s now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI

Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics

Ivan Mehta 1 month ago

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X cracks down on creators who steal content

X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M

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AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.

Dominic-Madori Davis 1 month ago

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Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

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Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Aisha Malik 1 month ago

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Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

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Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.

Ivan Mehta 1 month ago

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Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

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Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.

Sarah Perez 1 month ago

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UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group

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UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six months in jail for hacking London’s metropolitan transit system.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 1 month ago

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Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research

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Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research

One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was 'squeaky clean,' while another app was seen sharing users' health data with an analytics company, underscoring vast differences in user privacy among these apps.

Zack Whittaker 1 month ago

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Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

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Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

Amanda Silberling 1 month ago

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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.

Maggie Nye 1 month ago

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Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service

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Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service

The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

Sean O'Kane 1 month ago

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Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

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Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

Kate Park 1 month ago

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Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

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Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.

Dominic-Madori Davis 1 month ago

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Ultrahuman’s former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you

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Ultrahuman’s former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you

Aina is going to pilot a new device in the coming weeks.

Ivan Mehta 1 month ago

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Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot

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Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot

The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.

Aisha Malik 1 month ago

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