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A Chinese AI video startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive images A China-based startup, Sand AI, has released an openly licensed video-generating AI model that’s garnered praise from entrepreneurs…
Tesla earnings Q1 2025: What we’re watching for This might be the most hyped Tesla earnings in recent memory. And not for all the right reasons. Tesla has taken many…
Khloe Kardashian launches consumer brand, backed by Serena Ventures, WME Khloe Kardashian has formerly launched her new food company, Khloud, and its first product, a protein popcorn, set to hit…
Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise In 2020, when open source database Supabase was founded, its New Zealand-based CEO, Paul…
Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, an AI video model to create lifelike chatbots Character.AI, a leading platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, unveiled its forthcoming video generation model, AvatarFX, on…
Burning questions (and some answers) about Bluesky’s new verification system Bluesky’s launch of a verification system has raised a slew of questions among its user base from who will be…
Meta releases its CapCut rival Edits globally Meta announced on Tuesday that it’s officially launching Edits, its CapCut-like video creation app. Releasing globally, Edits will allow creators to do things…
Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning…
India’s EV startup Ather cuts IPO size to $308M, seeking $1.4B post-money valuation Ather Energy, the Indian startup manufacturing electric two-wheelers, has cut the size of its initial public offer…
Two undergrads built an AI speech model to rival NotebookLM A pair of undergrads, neither with extensive AI expertise, say that they’ve created an openly available AI model that can…