Snap Inc. has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities into Snapchat's My AI chatbot to enable more innovative features for its 850 million monthly active users.
Letta, a startup emerging from stealth with $10 million in funding, aims to revolutionize AI development by offering an open-source, model-agnostic platform that enables the creation of stateful AI agents and APIs.
Cloudflare has launched AI Audit, a new tool that empowers website owners to monitor, control, and potentially monetize how AI models interact with their content, aiming to rebalance the relationship between content creators and AI companies.
Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman on the promise of AI; Microsoft bought a lot of nuclear-generated electricity; Amazon launched new AI features for independent sellers; LinkedIn opted users into data collection; YouTube and Snap launched new AI features; Runway and Lionsgate are collaborating; and more.
Black Forest Labs, a startup founded by experts in image diffusion models and the creator of the FLUX.1 model suite, is reportedly seeking to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, likely by leveraging its collaboration with X and promising upcoming text-to-video generation models.
Microsoft signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy to reopen the Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear reactor as the Crane Clean Energy Center, aiming to power its AI-driven data centers with carbon-free energy and support its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030.
Amazon introduced a generative AI feature for Amazon Ads that creates product videos and animated images from single product photos, with aims to help sellers produce engaging content more easily.
Amazon developed Project Amelia, an AI-powered assistant using Amazon Bedrock, to support independent sellers on its platform by providing personalized insights, answering questions, and eventually automating tasks to help grow their businesses.
Inbolt, a Paris-based startup developing AI-powered real-time robot guidance solutions, has secured €15 million in Series A funding to expand its presence in the US and Japan, accelerate product development, and grow its team, building on the success of its GuideNOW software.
fal has raised $23 million in funding to accelerate its generative media model hosting platform, which offers high-performance inference APIs and solutions that have attracted a rapidly growing user base of developers and enterprises.
LinkedIn opted in users in the US to data collection for AI model by default and without updating its privacy policy, prompting privacy concerns. The company also failed to correctly specify whether UK-based users were subject to the data collection process, spurring further confusion.
YouTube is introducing AI-powered features, including video generation with Veo for Shorts, creative assistance in YouTube Studio, and AI-enhanced reply suggestions, to enhance content creation and audience engagement while implementing safeguards for AI-generated content.