Spotlight: Elon Musk’s AI company may release a consumer app (Source: TechCrunch) – Google Gemini’s Imagen 3 lets players design their chess pieces (Source: TechCrunch) – Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model (Source: Tec…
Spotlight: New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence (source: TechCrunch, The Verge) – Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory (source: TechCrunch) – Nvidia says its Blackwell AI chip is ‘full steam’ ahead (source: The Verge) – Apple …
Spotlight: HarperCollins is asking authors to license their books for AI training (source: The Verge) – OpenAI investor Josh Kushner praises Musk, despite Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit (source: TechCrunch) – Ben Affleck tells actors and writers not to worry ab…
Spotlight – Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team (source: TechCrunch) – Google org commits $20M to researchers using AI for scientific breakthroughs (source: TechCrunch) – Perplexity introduces a shopping fe…
Spotlight: Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI in early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others (source TechCrunch) EU updated their AI act (source: TechCrunch) Marc Lore is creating an AI-powered, vertically integrated dining and de…
Spotlight – Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts (source The verge) – AI startup Gendo — the Midjourney for architecture — secures fresh capital (source The Next web) – ESPN is testing a generative AI avatar called ‘FACTS’ (source The Verge) – …
I came across some interesting news, Google just launched its Gemini app for iOS, and it's available globally now. What’s cool about this release is that iOS users can finally get hands-on with it. Google is trying to push Gemini out to as many pe…
Spotlight – OpenAI’s take on AI agents could come in January (source: TechCrunch) Almost all of this year’s top 40 startups at Station F use AI (source: TechCrunch) The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun (source: WIRED) S…
Spotlight: OpenAI spend more than $10 million on chat.com (source: verge, techcrunch and hacker news) – Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now (source: verge) – Lyft is also partnering with robotaxi companies (source: verge, Lyft blog) …
Spotlight: Meta will now allow US government agencies and contractors to use its open-source Llama AI model for “national security applications.” You can now try out Microsoft’s new AI-powered Xbox chatbot Apple will let you upgrade to ChatGPT Plus r…
