Midjourney, an artificial intelligence lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has around 4.3 million monthly active users, is primarily used to help people determine their astrological birth charts, which they can then
Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you create personalized social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open research tool. The company said this week that it added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that allows users to ask it for information and news that is spread through the broader Bluesky social
Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the United States should respond to accusations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts and
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s Kimi open model went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the US AI industry reacted. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model left its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach in Hugging Face, a
An apparent effort by the Indian government to remove GitHub repositories for Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth-powered offline messaging app, has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open source software because of how it works. The issue with Bitchat came to light after Dorsey posted on X on Friday what he said was a
For 19-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, there is no middle ground. Either build a company as valuable as Google, he says, or fail and end up on the street. He started coding at age 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and DMed every Y Combinator founder he could find
