OpenAI launches its Google challenger, ChatGPT Search
OpenAI’s Google challenger is finally here.
The company on Thursday launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the SearchGPT prototype it unveiled this summer. Built into OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform, ChatGPT Search is designed to give “timely answers” to questions, OpenAI says, drawin
Google Maps is getting new AI features powered by Gemini
Google Maps is getting new features powered by Gemini, Google’s generative AI model. On Thursday the company announced incoming updates that will allow Google Maps users in the U.S. to tap into AI to help them find new places to visit and answer questions about different locations.
The platf
Google’s Gemini API and AI Studio get grounding with Google Search
Starting today, developers using Google’s Gemini API and its Google AI Studio to build AI-based services and bots will be able to ground their prompts’ results with data from Google Search. This should enable more accurate responses based on fresher data.
As has been the case before, d
WhatsApp users can now filter chats with customized lists
WhatsApp is making it easier to organize the many messages filling up your inbox. The messaging app announced Thursday that it's adding the ability to filter chats into customizable categories. This will help you keep track of conversations with family members, work colleagues, college friends,
College social app Fizz's 'serial failed retiree' CEO steps down as founder takes helm
Veteran entrepreneur Rakesh Mathur stepped down as CEO of the college social network Fizz, handing over the reins to 22-year-old founder Teddy Solomon.
It's full circle for Fizz, the anonymous platform that Solomon started with his Stanford classmate Ashton Cofer before they dropped out to wor
Nvidia-Run:ai deal to be reviewed under EU’s merger rules
The European Union has tossed a wrench in the works of chipmaker Nvidia’s proposed acquisition of Tel Aviv-based AI workload management startup Run:ai. The deal, which was announced back in April — with a price tag of $700 million per our sources — will be reviewed by the bloc after a re
Claude gets desktop apps and dictation support
Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps.
Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windows today in public beta, which — as Anthropic writes in a blog post — “brings Claude’s capabilities directly to your preferred work environment.” These capa
Space CEOs talk about the challenges and opportunities of selling defense tech
Space executives took the stage at technewss Disrupt on Monday to talk about the challenges and opportunities of building out dual-use technology, or tech that has both a defense and a commercial use case.
The dual-use strategy can be tricky for young startups to manage, however, because they r
MealMe, the startup integrating food ordering tech into apps, picks up $8M
MealMe, a unified API that embeds food and retail ordering into consumer apps and websites, announced on Thursday that it secured $8 million in Series A funding. The newly raised capital brings the total amount raised to $16 million.
Since its launch in 2019, MealMe has undergone several change
Buddy.ai is using AI and gaming to help children learn English as a second language
In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Siberia to the U.S. as his startup, Cubic.AI, was preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for its smart speaker. A week before the campaign was supposed to go live, Amazon launched its Echo smart speaker, rendering Cubic.AI essentially dead in the wate
D-ID launches new high-quality avatars capable of real-time conversations
AI video platform D-ID announced today that it is releasing two new types of avatars — Express and Premium+ — for content creation.
Companies are chasing the golden goose of creating AI avatars that are more humanlike and can potentially offload video creation for enterprise use cases in areas
Noma is building tools to spot security issues with AI apps
Companies are concerned that their eagerness to adopt AI has made them more vulnerable to cyberthreats. Per a recent poll of over 350 IT leaders, more than half of the executives surveyed said the complexity of AI applications weakened their organization’s cybersecurity posture. More than two
Temu’s low-cost marketplace faces formal probe in EU over raft of DSA compliance concerns
The European Union has expanded its scrutiny of online marketplaces by opening a formal proceeding on Chinese low-cost e-commerce platform, Temu, under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission announced Thursday.
Enforcers of the online governance framework will now dial up their oversight o
NFL quarterback turned-founder Colin Kaepernick on the challenges facing disrupters
Former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick took the stage at technewss Disrupt 2024 on Wednesday to talk about the challenges facing people who want to disrupt something — both inside and outside of the tech world.
“One of the biggest challenges that you will li