<p>Google&#8217;s adding a slew of AI features to the Chromebook Plus line, including a search and text capture tool, NotebookLM, and a tool for simplifying text.</p>

<p>OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website and YouTube page.</p>

<p>A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.</p>

<p>While LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, there’s one area that’s seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: the AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts.</p>

<p>Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major comics [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation. </p>

<p>Cluely&#8217;s new funding comes roughly two months after it raised $5.3 million in seed funding co-led by Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures.</p>

<p>Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models.</p>

<p>Karandeep Anand comes to Character.AI with experience running advertising products that reached billions of users on Meta&#8217;s apps.</p>

<p>Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to combat streaming fraud.</p>

<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to acquire Ilya Sutskever&#8217;s $32B AI startup, but failed, so now he&#8217;s in talks to hire its CEO, Daniel Gross.</p>

<p>The investing conglomerate is looking to team up with TSMC on the initiative as SoftBank continues to pour money into AI. </p>

<p>After months of rumors, Meta has officially announced its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley.</p>

<p>From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.</p>

<p>Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?</p>

<p>Sam Altman, who is both the father of a 3-month-old and CEO of OpenAI, hopped on OpenAI&#8217;s new podcast today to talk about how his company is impacting his experience with fatherhood.</p>

<p>In Base44&#8217;s six months as a stand-alone company, it reportedly grew to 250,000 users and was making nearly $200,000 in monthly profits.</p>

<p>Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.</p>

<p>Midjourney launched its much anticipated AI video generation model, V1, on Wednesday and laid out a roadmap for its future releases.</p>

<p>OpenAI says it&#8217;s cutting ties with Scale AI following its deal with Meta, raising questions about the data provider&#8217;s business.</p>