Tag: In Brief

Classic Christmas song gets authorized Spanish reworking thanks to ‘responsible’ AI

In the decades following its 1958 release, Brenda Lee’s rockabilly-tinged “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has attained status as an all-time holiday classic....

Perplexity says it’s now serving 100M search queries a week

Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, says that the AI-powered search engine is now performing 100 million queries each week. Extrapolated out to...

Elon Musk reportedly chats regularly with Putin

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin since late-2022. That’s according to The Wall Street...

OpenAI reportedly plans to release its Orion AI model by December

OpenAI is reportedly planning to release its next frontier AI model, codenamed Orion inside the company, by December of this year, The Verge...

Bessemer, Index, and a16z alum launch VC firm Chemistry

New VC firm Chemistry raised $350 million for its debut fund, Forbes reported on Wednesday. The firm was launched by Mark Goldberg, former partner...

Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy

Character.AI has been sued after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became obsessed with a chatbot on the...