Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models

Cohere is one of the best-known AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, hitting a $5.5 billion valuation as of July. It’s co-founded by an author of the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that helped launch the large language model (LLM) revolution. Based in Toronto and San F

Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners merges with investment arm of Pendulum Holdings

Jay-Z's venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners, has merged with another Black-owned investment firm, Pendulum Holdings’ investment arm Pendulum Opportunities, to form MarcyPen Capital Partners, a MarcyPen spokesperson confirmed to technewss. The newly formed MarcyPen Capital Partn

iRobot co-founder’s new home robot startup hopes to raise $30M

Colin Angle, one of the co-founders of Roomba maker iRobot, is raising cash for a home robotics venture. A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that Angle’s new company, Familiar Machines & Magic, is trying to raise $30 million. So far, it has raised $15 milli

TuSimple’s former CEO wants a new board that will liquidate the company

TuSimple co-founder and former CEO Xiaodi Hou is on a war path in the lead up to Friday's annual shareholder meeting that will decide the makeup of the company's board of directors.  Over the past several weeks, Hou has sued TuSimple for control of his voting rights, demanded the comp

TikTok asks Supreme Court for a lifeline as sell-or-ban deadline approaches

TikTok and ByteDance asked the United States Supreme Court to block the law that forces TikTok to be sold off or banned in the United States, according to an emergency filing with America’s top court on Monday. The social media company requested that the Supreme Court consider blocking the s

OpenAI brings its AI-powered web search tool to more ChatGPT users

ChatGPT Search, OpenAI’s AI-powered web search experience, is now live for all ChatGPT users — with several new features in tow. By default, ChatGPT will automatically determine which questions to route through ChatGPT Search, or users can tap a new “Search the web” icon in the

Instagram now lets you schedule DMs

Instagram has quietly rolled out the ability for users to schedule direct messages. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to technewss on Monday that the new feature is rolling out to all users globally. The option to schedule DMs will be especially useful for creators and brands that want to s

Google experiments with a new image generator that remixes three images into one creation

Google Labs, Google’s experimental arm, is testing a new image generator called Whisk. This tool allows people to prompt with images instead of text, allowing them to remix a photo by altering the subject, scene, and style. Whisk uses Google’s image-generation model, Imagen 3, to combi

YouTube will now let creators opt in to third-party AI training

YouTube on Monday announced it will give creators more choice over how third parties can use their content to train their AI models. Starting today, creators and rights holders will be able to flag for YouTube if they’re permitting specific third-party AI companies to train models on the crea

YouTube will now let creators opt in to third-party AI training

YouTube on Monday announced it will give creators more choice over how third parties can use their content to train their AI models. Starting today, creators and rights holders will be able to flag for YouTube if they’re permitting specific third-party AI companies to train models on the crea

Meta updates its smart glasses with real-time AI video

Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are getting several new AI-powered upgrades, including the ability to have an ongoing conversation with Meta’s AI and translate between languages. Ray-Ban Meta owners in Meta’s early access program for the U.S. and Canada can now download firmwar

Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora

Google DeepMind, Google’s flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video-generation game — and it might just, at least for a little while. On Monday, DeepMind announced Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI and the successor to Veo, which powers a growing number of products ac

Israeli spyware maker Paragon bought by US private equity giant

Paragon, an Israeli spyware maker that has largely kept a low profile in recent years, was acquired last week by American private equity giant AE Industrial Partners, according to Israeli news reports.  Tech news website Calcalist reported that the investment firm bought Paragon for $500 million,

YouTube’s latest test lets creators post voice notes as comments

YouTube is experimenting with a new way to engage fans by giving creators the ability to post voice notes and reply to comments on their videos, the company announced on Monday. The ability to post voice notes is limited to certain creators in the U.S. for the time being. YouTube says they’l