Lorde Criticizes Meta's AI Glasses as 'Not Sexy'
Pop star Lorde urged fans not to get Meta's AI glasses during a Madrid festival performance, calling them 'not sexy' amid privacy concerns.
Pop star Lorde urged fans not to get Meta's AI glasses during a Madrid festival performance, calling them 'not sexy' amid privacy concerns.
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup valued at $2 billion, with Lightspeed considering leading the $200 million funding round.
Hinge founder Justin McLeod raised $18 million to launch Overtone, an AI-driven dating service that avoids algorithmic feeds and swiping.
DeepSeek, valued at $52 billion, plans a new round at $71 billion to expand data centers and AI chip purchases.
Meta's Adam Mosseri said AI token budgets could be capped per engineer within a year or two, citing rising costs that nearly pushed the company to billions in 2026.
Reflection AI, a U.S. startup, has signed a $1 billion compute deal with Nebius, a European AI infrastructure company.
PixVerse, an AI video startup, reached a $2 billion valuation after raising $439 million in Series C funding, according to thedecoder.
ChatGPT has resumed operations on WhatsApp in the European Economic Area, covering 27 EU countries and Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway, following EU regulatory action.
Several high-profile entrepreneurs are shifting focus to AI research, with Anthropic attracting figures like Tom Blomfield and Andrej Karpathy.
Nous Research, maker of Hermes agent, is finalizing a $1.5 billion valuation funding round led by Robot Ventures, with USV and other investors participating.
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse announced its valuation has crossed $2 billion after raising $439 million in its Series C extension round.
Uber has added hotel bookings, boat rentals, and AI-powered shopping features to its app, with plans to gather more driving data through its AV Labs unit.