White House Launches America.gov AI Chatbot With Google Gemini and Grok
The White House has launched America.gov, an AI-powered service designed to give people a single place to find federal government information and access services. President Donald Trump announced the platform…
Instinct Founder Says Travel Accounts for More Than Half of AI Agent Transactions
Travel accounts for more than half of transaction volume on Instinct, according to founder Noah Shinn, as the invite-only AI assistant approaches $1 billion in annual transaction volume. Shinn said…
Uhura Bionics Builds Wearable Voice Device That Lets Laryngectomees Speak With Emotion
Uhura Bionics is developing a wearable device that allows people who have lost their larynx to speak with intonation and emotion without surgery. Founder Konrad Zieliński, who lost his own…
Google Will Replace Gemini Gems With Skills Starting November 17
Google is shutting down Gemini Gems, its feature for creating custom AI assistants for specific tasks, and replacing them with a new system called skills. Existing Gems will be migrated…
OpenAI Publishes Misalignment Reports Detailing Rogue AI Agent Behavior
OpenAI has published a new collection of reports documenting cases in which AI agents behaved outside intended instructions during testing and reinforcement-learning training. The Misalignment Reports site currently contains nine…
Meta Launches Enterprise AI Platform and Hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to Lead It
Meta has launched Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business focused on bringing the company’s AI tools to corporate customers and developers. The company also hired MongoDB CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai…
Duo-Man Turns Apple’s Foldable iPhone Duo Into a Virtual Walkman
Indie developer Vidit Bhargava has built Duo-Man, an app for Apple’s upcoming foldable iPhone Duo that recreates the experience of using a classic Walkman. The app uses the phone’s two…
MAVI Emerges From Stealth With AI-Powered Marketplace for Global Accounting Talent
MAVI has emerged from stealth with an AI-powered talent marketplace that connects U.S. companies with global finance and accounting professionals. Founded in 2023 by Molly Liu and Aman Puri, the…
DetectifAI Builds On-Device Deepfake Voice Detection for Smartphones
San Francisco-based startup DetectifAI is developing compact AI models that can detect deepfake voices directly on smartphones, without sending audio to remote servers. Founder Tarini Padmanabhuni started the company after…
FBI Staff Personal and Medical Data Reportedly Stolen in Job Portal Cyberattack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly told employees that their personal information was stolen in a cyberattack involving its job application portal. An internal notice described the breach as…
Modulate Raises $25 Million for Voice Intelligence and Deepfake Detection
Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 million to expand its platform for analyzing human and AI-generated speech. Its technology uses more than 100 smaller models for transcription, emotion…
Outmarket Raises $34.5 Million Series B to Automate Commercial Insurance Work
Outmarket has raised $34.5 million in Series B funding to expand its AI software for commercial insurance agencies and brokers. The round, led by SignalFire, comes four months after the…
ElevenLabs Launches v4 Speech Models With Faster Voice Cloning and 90+ Languages
ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, two new speech models designed to provide more expressive voice generation, faster cloning, and lower latency for real-time voice agents. The…
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 With Faster Performance and Lower Costs
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the latest version of its mid-tier AI model, with a focus on faster performance and lower operating costs. The company positions the model as…
Instinct Raises $1 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation One Month After Previous Round
AI assistant startup Instinct has raised $1 billion in a Series C round from investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue, giving the company a $10 billion valuation. The…
SpaceX Starship Reaches Earth Orbit for the First Time
SpaceX has sent Starship into Earth orbit for the first time, marking a major milestone for the company’s reusable mega-rocket program. The spacecraft also deployed 26 third-generation Starlink satellites during…
Quartermaster Raises $140 Million to Expand Maritime Data Network
Quartermaster has raised $140 million in Series B financing, just months after closing a $43 million Series A in May. The Arlington, Virginia-based startup is using cameras, radios, and weather-resistant…
Truecaller Launches Scam Checker for Suspicious Links, Numbers and Messages
Truecaller has launched Scam Checker, a free service that checks suspicious phone numbers, links, and messages without requiring users to sign in or download its caller ID app. The Swedish…
Saturday Night Live Mocks Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Over AI Risk Warnings
“Saturday Night Live” mocked recent warnings about artificial intelligence risks during its latest Weekend Update segment, with cast member Jane Wickline portraying Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as conflicted over the…