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Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, pushes staff to ditch Meta's slow internal systems in favor of external tools like Vercel (www.businessinsider.com)
2 days ago

Midi, which offers virtual care for women and is developing an AI search engine for health info, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$150M (www.businessinsider.com)
2 days ago AI

Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated (www.businessinsider.com)
2 days ago Amazon AI

Perplexity is making its AI browser Comet, previously $200 per month as part of Perplexity Max, free for all, with rate limits (www.businessinsider.com)
3 days ago AI Browser

Leaked Meta internal document shows updated training protocols for its AI chatbot to refuse any prompts involving sexual roleplay with minors (www.businessinsider.com)
8 days ago AI chatbot

Omnea, which makes AI tools for automating procurement, raised a $50M Series B led by Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures, taking its total funding to $75M (www.businessinsider.com)
13 days ago AI

Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (www.businessinsider.com)
22 days ago AI

AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-31 Startup AI Salesforce CRM

Sources: Meta aims to launch its next-gen Llama AI model, Llama 4.X, by the end of 2025; the TBD team developing Llama 4.X is also trying to fix Llama 4 bugs (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-29 AI

Memo: Verily, Alphabet's life sciences unit, lays off staff and ends its medical devices program, shifting its focus instead to precision health, data, and AI (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-27 AI Alphabet

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-20

Sources: Anthropic asked Menlo to use the VC firm's own capital for investment in the startup and not an SPV, as Menlo did in a previous funding round (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-19 Startup

Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its latest fundraising round in July (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-14

Despite Musk's claim Apple “makes it impossible” for non-OpenAI AI apps to top its App Store, DeepSeek was #1 in January and Perplexity was #1 in July in India (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-13 India AI Apple

Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent and is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-13 Microsoft AI

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments, which have included “I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession.” (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-8 Google

Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-7-31 Amazon AI

The judge in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit strikes down 16 of OpenAI's 55 affirmative defenses, accuses both sides of “gamesmanship” and over-litigating the case (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-7-30 Elon Musk

Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI “perpetual” access to data like their “likeness” for training; several did not consent (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-7-23

Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-7-3 AI chatbot

WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-6-25 AI chatbot WhatsApp

The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-6-17 AI

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-6-7 YouTube

Meta's AI team is facing a talent drain, with just three of the 14 authors credited on the landmark 2023 Llama paper still at Meta; several joined Mistral (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-5-27 AI

Source: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which is building its own LLMs and launched an AI orchestration system in March, is raising a $300M Series D (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-5-11 AI

Q&A with Tim Sweeney on the recent Epic v. Apple ruling, bringing Fortnite back to iOS via Epic's Swedish developer account, and spending $100M+ on legal fees (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-5-6 IOS Apple Sweden

Sources: Google has quietly launched 100 Zeros, a film and TV production initiative aiming to promote a positive view of tech and drive adoption of its products (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-5-6 Google

Nourish, which offers virtual, insurance-covered nutritional care from 3,000+ dietitians, raised a $70M Series B led by JPM, sources say at a $1B+ valuation (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-23 Insurance

Docs: in July 2024, Amazon set up Project Greenland to manage and optimize GPU allocation across its retail unit; Amazon says it now has “ample” GPU capacity (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-22 Amazon Retail

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT and consulting contracts, including with Accenture and Deloitte, calling them “wasteful spending” (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-11

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