Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity
There’s a controversy brewing over “AI-generated” studies submitted to this year’s ICLR, a long-running academic conference focused on AI.
At least three AI labs — Sakana, Intology, and Autoscience — claim to have used AI to generate studies that were accepted to ICLR w
Prezent raises $20M to build AI for slide decks
Prezent, a startup empowering customers to build slide decks using generative AI, has raised $20 million as it further develops and refines its AI models for different use cases and expands into new markets.
AI has many different applications — one of which is generating decks for business prese
US paid music subscribers cross 100 million mark for the first time
The U.S. crossed the 100 million paid subscriber mark for music streaming services for the first time ever last year, as per a new report by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The subscriber number was up from 96.8 million in 2023, with year-on-year growth of roughly 3%. RIAA’
Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management
Aletiq raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates). The French startup is announcing the funding round today. Aletiq has been developing product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturing industrial companies work
Factorial, an HR unicorn, snaps up $120M from General Catalyst to boost sales and marketing
Factorial, the Barcelona-based “unicorn” startup that provides an all-in-one HR platform in the cloud for small and medium businesses, has picked up a non-dilutive (no equity) $120 million from General Catalyst — money it says it’ll invest in one specific area: “go-to-market”, or GT
NASA astronauts return from long Space Station stay prompted by Boeing problems
Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have returned to Earth after a nine-month stay on the International Space Station (ISS) — a trip that lasted far longer than originally planned thanks to leaks and thruster problems on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft the
Nvidia and Google DeepMind will help power Disney’s cute robots
Nvidia is collaborating with Disney Research and Google DeepMind to develop Newton, a physics engine to simulate robotic movements in real-world settings, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at GTC 2025 on Tuesday.
Disney will be among the first to use Newton to power its next-generation entertainme
J. D. Vance claims freeing AI from regulation is good for American workers and tech innovators
On Tuesday, Vice President J. D. Vance said that the Trump administration’s support of AI and tech innovations should benefit both populists and those investing and leading tech companies.
“I think there’s too much fear that AI will simply replace jobs rather than augmenting so
Elon Musk’s DOGE leadership likely violates Constitution’s appointments clause, judge says
Elon Musk’s role overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is likely a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s appointments clause, a federal judge wrote Tuesday.
Theodore Chuang, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, wrote in an opinion there is
New $5M fund aims to lure founders from universities
Spend time at a university, and inevitably you'll come across someone who has a plan to save the world, or at least make some small part of it better. It might be merely the optimism of youth, but sometimes they're actually on to something.
Critical Venture Partners is betting that yo
What Tesla can and can’t do in California with its new passenger transportation permit
"">Tesla received a permit Tuesday from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to operate a transportation service in the state, the beginning of a long regulatory road that could eventually lead to the company getting the OK to operate a robotaxi service there.
The permit, which Tesla a
An AI model from over a decade ago sparked Nvidia's investment in autonomous vehicles
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote Tuesday at the company’s GTC 2025 conference stuck with tradition and was chock-full of announcements. But the company also snuck in a little history lesson.
During the automotive portion of his speech, Huang referred to AlexNet, a neural network archi
Nvidia announces two ‘personal AI supercomputers’
Nvidia at GTC 2025 announced a new lineup of “AI personal supercomputers” powered by the company’s Grace Blackwell chip platform.
Jensen Huang, the semiconductor company’s founder and CEO, unveiled the two new machines, DGX Spark (previously called Project Digits) and DGX S
GM teams up with Nvidia to bring AI to robots, factories, and self-driving cars
General Motors is turning to Nvidia to help bring AI to the physical world in an expanded collaboration designed to touch every aspect of the automaker's business, including factories, robots, and self-driving cars.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who announced the partnership Tuesd