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Reddit AI Narrates Your Posts as Podcasts to Retain Users
Reddit is using AI voices to turn text posts into short videos and podcasts, a strategic push for passive engagement in a video-first internet.
Anthropic Revenue Hits $65B as AI Spending Peaks
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate exploded from $9B to $65B in eight months, as its tech giant partners ramped up massive enterprise deployments of Claude
AI Startup's Google Acquisition Ends in a Quiet Team Takeover
Funded AI startup Relay shut down, not through failure, but by having its entire team quietly hired by Google to work on the Chrome browser in a clear talent gr
Spotify Revives Human Stories In Playlist Notes
Spotify has launched Playlist Notes, letting users and editors attach personal stories to songs, aiming to add human context to its massive, often anonymous, mu
Amazon Bulldozes Rare Books for AI-Fueled Data War
Amazon is buying and then destroying rare books in a Las Vegas warehouse to scan their pages and feed text data into its AI training models, a practice uncovere
Groq Slashes Valuation By Half After Nvidia Deal
AI chip challenger Groq halved its valuation to $3.5 billion as it pivots to become a hyperscale cloud provider running on its former rival Nvidia's hardware.
WordPress Puts Full Hosting Stack Into Classrooms Free
WordPress.com's new Education program gives teachers a free, full-featured hosting suite for every student to skip school IT hurdles and train professional web
Groq Secures $1 Billion to Dominate AI Inference
AI infrastructure company Groq has now raised $1 billion in a matter of months, backed by Nvidia, in an all-in bet to control the massively expensive AI inferen
Healthcare AI Built for Zero Errors, Not Silicon Valley Speed
Heidi's AI scales to 190 countries by treating safety as the foundation of speed, engineering for zero-error tolerance and full auditability where the model is
Semafor Builds Profits on Elite 'Anti-Scale' Journalism
After the 'traffic apocalypse,' Ben Smith's Semafor funds half its journalism by hosting exclusive, high-stakes events for the elite leaders it also covers.
AI Writes Europe Makes Bots Sign Their Work
Europe's AI Act forces tech companies to embed hidden watermarks in AI text, making bots like Claude traceable with cryptographic signatures worldwide.
Stop Blurry Pet Photos With Your Phone
You can take professional-looking photos of your pets using just your smartphone by mastering natural lighting, staying patient, and working with their unique p