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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.…

Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deplo…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.…

Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users

Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June.…

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’

One of OpenAI's longest-serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told st…

General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI

River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal…

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in m…

Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations

Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identitie…

Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models

Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.…

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.…

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-train…

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the pos…