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Grammarly bought email app Superhuman for an undisclosed sum, part of its plan to build an AI productivity empire. With $1 billion in fresh funding, the grammar company wants to put AI agents at the center of your workday.
While Congress debates TikTok's future, ByteDance quietly built America's #2 education app. Gauth helps 200 million students cheat on homework by solving problems from photos. Same company, same data concerns, zero scrutiny.
Programming computers in English sounds impossible. But Andrej Karpathy built working apps without knowing code, using only natural language prompts. He calls it Software 3.0. These AI systems think like humans, complete with superhuman memory and distinctly human mistakes.
Chinese AI startup MiniMax just trained a frontier model for $534,700 - a fraction of what competitors spend. Their open-source M1 beats DeepSeek while using 75% less computing power. The breakthrough suggests advanced AI no longer requires massive budgets.
DeepSeek released an AI update without fanfare that now ranks just behind OpenAI's best models. The Chinese startup's quiet approach achieved what billion-dollar marketing campaigns couldn't: performance gains that forced competitors to cut prices.
A former AI researcher left his Munich lab to chase what he calls the "holy grail" of artificial intelligence. His startup just raised $13 million with barely more than a demo video. What convinced investors to bet big on something that doesn't exist yet?
The Servo browser project reached a turning point by successfully displaying Gmail in test mode. Beyond its technical achievement, this advance signals a shift in how web browsers could evolve—and who controls them.
Anthropic's latest API update promises to revolutionize how businesses access real-time data through AI. But behind the $10-per-thousand-searches price tag lies a strategic gambit that's already reshaping the industry.
AI costs just plunged 87%. One French startup's breakthrough threatens Silicon Valley's dominance - and it works on a laptop. The implications for businesses are profound. Here's what's at stake for tech's biggest players.
Is AI about to transform scientific discovery? Anthropic just handed researchers the keys to its AI kingdom—without the hefty price tag. What breakthrough might be unlocked when powerful AI meets brilliant scientific minds? The answer could reshape medicine as we know it.
Apple built an empire on doing everything in-house. Now they're asking an AI startup for help with coding. What went so wrong that the tech giant had to swallow its pride? The answer reveals cracks in Apple's perfect facade – and hints at a major shift in Silicon Valley's power dynamics.
Tech firm ElevenLabs launches European data storage to comply with stringent privacy regulations, enhancing data security.
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