World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more places
World, the biometric ID company best known for its eyeball-scanning Orb devices, on Wednesday announced several partnerships aimed at driving sign-ups and demonstrating the applications of its tech.
World is partnering with Match Group, the dating app conglomerate, to verify the identities of Tind
Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device
Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, unveiled Wednesday a mobile device designed to help people determine the difference between a human and an AI agent. Rich Heley, Tools for Humanity’s Chief Device Officer and a for
Meta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035
Meta made a prediction last year its generative AI products would rake in $2 billion to $3 billion in revenue in 2025, and between $460 billion and $1.4 trillion by 2035, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
The documents, submitted by attorneys for book authors suing Meta for what the
Epic Games just scored a major win against Apple
Epic Games has notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, as a result of which Fortnite could return to the U.S. iOS App Store as early as next week.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a ruling on Wednesday that Apple was in “willful violation” of a 2021 injunction that pr
Amazon launches Nova Premier, its most capable AI model yet
Amazon on Wednesday released what the company claims is the most capable AI model in its Nova family, Nova Premier.
Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos (but not audio), is available in Amazon Bedrock, the company’s AI model development platform. Amazon says that Premier
Study accuses LM Arena of helping top AI labs game its benchmark
A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena, of helping a select group of AI companies achieve better leaderboard scores at the expense of rivals.
According to the authors, LM Arena allowed som
Microsoft expects some AI capacity constraints this quarter
An executive cautioned during Microsoft’s earnings call on Wednesday that customers might face AI service disruptions as demand outstrips the company’s ability to bring data centers online.
Microsoft’s EVP and CFO Amy Hood said during the company’s fiscal 2025 third-quarter
Google’s Gemini chatbot gets upgraded image-creation tools
Google’s Gemini chatbot app now lets you modify both AI-generated images and images uploaded from your phone or computer, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Native image editing in Gemini will start rolling out gradually today. The service will be expanded to people in most countr
Visa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shopping
Artificial intelligence is not just infiltrating the startup world. Now credit card giants Visa and Mastercard are getting into the AI game. Visa announced on Wednesday “Intelligent Commerce,” which it says enables AI “to find and buy.”
AI agents will be able to shop and make purchases on
Threads tops 350M monthly users after adding 30M in the quarter
Instagram Threads, Meta’s X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday. That’s an increase of 30 million users since the prior quarter, where Meta reported that Threads ha
Pinterest launches new tools to fight AI slop
Pinterest says it’s finally going to do something about the AI slop that’s taken over its platform.
After an increasing volume of complaints, the social networking and image pinboarding site announced Wednesday a plan to begin labeling AI-generated and AI-modified images. It will also
Amazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbots
Amazon wants companies to build public-facing chatbots using its Q Business assistant.
On Wednesday, the company said Q Business, its AWS-hosted AI assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries and complete tasks, now supports anonymous user access. This effectively means that AWS users
If you own Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you should double-check your privacy settings
Meta has updated the privacy policy for its AI glasses, Ray-Ban Meta, giving the tech giant more power over what data it can store and use to train its AI models.
The company emailed Ray-Ban Meta owners on Tuesday with a notice that AI features will now be enabled on the glasses by default, accord
Apple notifies new victims of spyware attacks across the world
Apple sent notifications this week to several people who the company believes were targeted with government spyware, according to two of the alleged targets.
In the past, Apple has sent similar notifications to targets and victims of spyware, and directed them to contact a nonprofit that spe