<p>The massive round is Anysphere&#8217;s third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured its previous capital haul of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion late last year.</p>

<p>Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it&#8217;s working on.</p>

<p>Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills. </p>

<p>Anthropic&#8217;s Jared Kaplan said the company largely cut Windsurf&#8217;s direct access to Anthropic&#8217;s Claude AI models because of rumors OpenAI is acquiring the startup.</p>

<p>Google says the update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model is better at certain programming tasks and builds on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro the company announced around a month ago. </p>

<p>Anthropic says it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. The new models, a custom set of &#8220;Claude Gov&#8221; models, were &#8220;built based on direct feedback from our government customers to address real-world operational needs,&#8221; writes Anthropic in the blog post. Compared to Anthropic&#8217;s consumer- and enterprise-focused models, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Angelo Sotira started the online digital art platform DeviantArt when he was just a teenager, growing a formative community for millions of artists in the 2000s. Twenty-five years later, Sotira wants to change digital art again, but with a focus on the way it&#8217;s displayed. On Thursday, Sotira revealed his new venture, Layer, a screen [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform&#8217;s content to train large language models.</p>

<p>Pamecha said Toma’s onboarding process involves training on a dealers’ customer calls for a week or two to give the AI some context. </p>

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<p>Collibra&#8217;s data access tech will help Collibra offer a more full-stack data governance offering in the age of AI.</p>

<p>Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against concerns that AI could eventually make half the company&#8217;s 180,000-person workforce redundant. Instead, Pichai stressed the company&#8217;s commitment to growth through at least next year.</p>

<p>Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&#038;D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars.</p>

<p>AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA, which the company claims outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments.</p>

<p>Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site&#8217;s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic&#8217;s unauthorized use of the site&#8217;s data for commercial purposes was unlawful, and alleges the AI startup violated [&hellip;]</p>

<p>CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told the crowd at London SXSW that his company plans to balance employees and AI workers.</p>

<p>Brium is a startup that builds machine learning applications to enable AI inference, the process a trained AI model uses to draw conclusions from new data, across a variety of different hardware options.</p>

<p>Snap has launched a stand-alone Lens Studio iOS app and web tool, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tools are designed to make it easier for anyone to create AR Lenses through text prompts and simple editing tools.</p>

<p>As part of the launch, ChatGPT is gaining connectors for Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Google Drive. This allows ChatGPT to look for information across users&#8217; own services to answer their questions. </p>

<p>According to Google Photos product manager Jamie Aspinall, Ask Photos isn&#8217;t up to par when it comes to latency, quality, and user experience. While some users have access to the feature now, he said that a new version will be shipped in about two weeks, which will aim to correct these issues.</p>