Palmetto wants software developers to electrify America using its AI building models
For someone who wants solar panels, the question is often: “How many?” And for a heat pump, it's “how big?” Answering those questions typically requires a contractor to set foot on your property.
Yet over the last decade, solar installers have trimmed that time-consuming process
Roblox releases its open source model that can create 3D objects using AI
Roblox announced Monday that it's launching the first iteration of its 3D model, dubbed “Cube,” to allow creators to create 3D objects using generative AI. The company also launched an open source version so anyone off the platform can build on it.
Announced last year at Roblox's annua
Discord launches SDK to help developers enhance social experiences in their games
Discord on Monday announced the launch of its Discord Social SDK, a free toolkit that allows developers to leverage the platform’s social infrastructure to enhance their games’ social and multiplayer experiences. The toolkit allows developers to improve their in-game experiences, whethe
Google adds its voice model Chirp 3 to its Vertex AI platform
Most of the focus in generative AI has been on text-based interfaces used to generate text, images, and more. The next wave appears to be voice, and it's rolling in fast. In the latest development, Google today announced that it would be adding Chirp 3 — its speech-to-text and HD text-to-spee
Google beefs up its UK AI business with Agentspace data residency and more
Google is doubling down on building out its AI business in the U.K. On Monday morning in London, the CEO of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian appeared alongside customers BT and WPP to spell out some of the company’s plans.
The company said it would expand U
Meta takes aim at ex-employee's memoir ‘Careless People’
Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee who recently published a memoir of her time at the company titled “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.”
An arbitrator ruled that the company has made a valid argument th
Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments
No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over two years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. And its stock price soared
Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers
In a world filled with “vibe coding,” Zach Yadegari, teen founder of Cal AI, stands in ironic, old-fashioned contrast.
Ironic because Yadegari and his co-founder, Henry Langmack, are both just 18 years old and still in high school. Yet their story, so far, is a classic.
VC Aileen Lee highlights how the broader investor exodus is worsening woes for unicorn companies
In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about a major consequence of the recent boom-and-bust cycle: Many companies stuck in limbo aren't just struggling to regain their footing after raising too much money at unsustainable valuations; t
Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic partner to launch electric air taxis in the UK
Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in which the startup hopes to one day commercialize.
Joby, which went public in 2021 via a special purpose acquisition merger, did not provide a timeline for when it plans to laun
Bluesky users debate plans around user data and AI training
Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving.
CEO Jay Graber discussed the proposal earlier this week while onsta
Week in Review: SXSW week comes to a close
Welcome back to Week in Review! I’m Karyne Levy, technewss’s deputy managing editor, and I’ll be writing this newsletter from here on out. Thrilled to be here!
This week we’re checking out everything at SXSW; Waymo’s expansion into Silicon Valley; Intel’s new C
SpaceX launches astronauts for long-awaited International Space Station crew swap
SpaceX successfully launched four people into space on Friday, beginning a mission that will give the International Space Station enough crew members to allow astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to return to Earth after their nine-month stay.
The mission, known as Crew-10, will see SpaceX
Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI
On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden administration that might suggest the former president “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor