Apple plans four new retail stores in India

Apple is planning to open four new retail stores in India and has begun manufacturing the iPhone 16 Pro models domestically, the company said as it deepens its presence in the world’s second-largest smartphone market. The U.S. tech giant plans to launch stores in Bengaluru, Pune, Delhi-NCR,

A co-lead on Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, has left for Google

One of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, has left for Google. Tim Brooks, who was heading development on Sora with William Peebles, announced in a post on X that he’ll be joining Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research division, to work on video generation technologi

Investors are scrambling to get into ElevenLabs, which may soon be valued at $3 billion

ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors about a new round, which could value the company as highly as $3 billion, technewss has learned.  The two-year-old company specializes in making AI tools to generate synthetic voic

Initialized Capital restructures, and lets multiple partners go

Initialized Capital is restructuring its team to “meet the moment” in the venture market, according to a blog post from the firm’s managing partner Brett Gibson. The San Francisco-based venture capital firm, originally founded by Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, and Harjeet Taggar, ann

OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects

OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.” The product opens a separate window, beside the normal chat window, with a workspace for writing and coding projects. Users can generate writing or code directly in the canvas, then highlig

AirOps is an all-in-one platform for generating and managing AI-based marketing content

To some degree, every business that has a presence on the web is in the content business — whether that’s for informing customers, finding new clients, or for SEO. That means managing the production of those texts and images, updating them, and potentially optimizing them for a search e

Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search

Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries, and will add links to relevant web pages for some of those summaries as well. It’s also rolling out AI-organized search results pages in the U.S. this week. The increasing

Google Lens can now answer questions about videos

Google is upgrading its visual search app, Lens, with the ability to answer near-real-time questions about your surroundings. English-speaking Android and iOS users with the Google app installed can now start capturing a video via Lens and ask questions about objects of interest in the video.

YouTube takes on TikTok with longer Shorts, templates, trends, and more

YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts. These include the ability for creators to upload videos up to three minutes in length. The company says it’s also updating the Shorts player, introducing templates, and adding a new Shorts tren

Ollie scoops up health startup to launch a tool that analyzes dog poop

The global pet food market has become fiercely competitive, with an estimated market share of $103.3 billion in 2023 and still growing. This growth has led many companies to target pet owners who are willing to invest in quality food to enhance their pets’ well-being and longevity. In a move

CISA issues warning about another Ivanti flaw under active attack

Hackers are exploiting yet another vulnerability in one of Ivanti's widely used enterprise products, the U.S. government's cybersecurity agency CISA warned in a fresh alert this week. The remote code execution flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM), a tool that helps organizations manage a

Video editing app Captions launches an AI-powered social media manager for sites

AI-powered video editing app Captions is rolling out a new tool for websites that manages their content publishing schedule for videos and even generates videos for those dates based on relevant topics to the site.  The tool first scans the site to pull content, keywords, service offerings, and k

Argo Space’s plan to power orbital tugs with moon water pulls in $7.9M

There are many hypotheses about what capabilities will need to come online for the growing space industry to flourish, but two of the biggest concern in-space mobility and in-space refueling. To have a fully independent space economy, proponents argue, we'll need to be able to move satellites a

How Kapa uses LLMs to help companies answer users' technical questions reliably

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage in recent years, upending traditional online search via the likes of ChatGPT while improving customer support, content generation, translation, and more. Now one fledgling startup is using LLMs to build AI assistants capable spec