xAI has launched Grok 4, a model capable of impressive benchmark scores on recent tests, including Humanity's Last Exam and ARC-AGI-2. Grok 4 was launched alongside a $300 subscription tier, which will unlock early access to new features, including Grok 4 Heavy.
This weekend, shortly after the exclusivity for OpenAI's deal to purchase Windsurf expired, Google hired away CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and key talent, as well as licensed the company's technology. Windsurf was then acquired by Cognition, the company behind the AI coding agent Devin.
Moonvalley has launched its AI video generation platform "Marey" to the public, along a credits-based subscription system. The company is targeting filmmakers with ethically-trained models and advanced controls like free camera motion and physics-aware object manipulation.
Wimbledon's controversial switch to AI-powered line calling has faced criticism from players and coaches who claim the system is less accurate than human judges. The ELC system has also created unexpected accessibility challenges, and reports calculate it has failed to deliver any cost savings.
Cloudflare launched a "pay per crawl" feature that lets content creators charge AI crawlers for access to their websites using HTTP 402 Payment Required responses. With this feature, Cloudflare hopes to offer publishers a monetization alternative between blocking AI entirely or allowing free access.
Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now transform photos into eight-second videos with sound through a new photo-to-video feature available on the Gemini app. According to Google, users have generated over 40M videos with Veo 3 since the model launched in May.
Campfire raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Accel to build an AI-native ERP platform that uses Anthropic's Claude models to help finance teams automate processes and disrupt legacy systems from Oracle, SAP, and NetSuite.
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has raised $10 billion to expand infrastructure and develop its controversial Grok chatbot, amid fierce competition with OpenAI and Anthropic, and is set to unveil a major model upgrade despite recent backlash over offensive content.
Apple reportedly considering third-party AI technologies to power the new Siri; Clio acquired vLex; Tech companies score two victories in copyright infringement rulings; Synthflow AI's Series A; Abridge's Series E; Harvey's $300M Series E; and more.
Two recent court rulings determined that Anthropic and Meta's use of massive amounts of scraped text to train their AI models is consistent with fair use. The rulings will help shape a legal landscape in which creators and publishers continue to fight against unauthorized use of their content.
Clio, a leading legal technology company, announced a $1 billion acquisition of vLex, a legal intelligence platform with advanced AI capabilities, creating a unified system that bridges legal practice management with comprehensive legal research and marking the largest deal in Clio's history.
Synthflow AI raised $20 million in Series A funding to scale its no-code enterprise voice AI platform. Synthflow claims its platform has processed 45 million calls for more than 1,000 customers, and saved 5 million hours of contact center operations.