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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)
5 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)
18 days ago 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)
20 days ago 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)
22 days ago 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)
29 days ago

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)
30 days ago 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

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is raising upwards of $2B at a $10B+ valuation, after previously seeking $1B at a $9B valuation in February 2025 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-11

Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-5 AI Terrorism Freelance

X users are asking Grok to fact check other users by tagging @grok, often on political or historical topics, as a new passive aggressive way to dunk on others (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-4-2

Sources: ScaleAI is seeking a valuation as high as $25B in a potential tender offer; it was last valued at $13.8B in a $1B Series F round led by Accel in 2024 (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-29

Filing: Dell says it had about 108K employees as of January 31, 2025, down from 120K employees in February 2024, marking a 10% annual reduction in its workforce (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-27

Sources: Onavo co-founder Roi Tiger is closing a $55M Series A led by Greenoaks for his stealth cybersecurity startup at a valuation in the hundreds of millions (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-3-25 Startup

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