Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, a standard to allow AI models and agents to securely obtain external data and tools, has filed a lawsuit against human resources software startup Rippling, according to the complaint seen by TechCrunch. The lawsuit is a warning to anyone selling AI infrastructure to enterprise
Ozlo, the sleep headphone startup from former Bose engineers, is launching its next device. On Tuesday, the company unveiled Sleepbuds 2, an updated version of its original product that addresses key areas of improvement, including battery life, connectivity and sound quality. The new model costs $279, a 12% increase over its predecessor. The launch marks
America’s largest power grid has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generation capacity failed, grid operator PJM Interconnection has said it will take data centers and other large users offline during power outages. The decision comes as the breakneck pace of data center construction has
The market for AI-generated speech models is huge. Creative use cases require AI voice models to be more expressive, while companies looking to automate customer service and sales operations need them to be more manageable. Palo Alto-based Fish Audio wants to address all of those use cases with its library of more than 15,000 natural
AI note-taking app Granola is launching an app for Apple Watch in hopes that its users will want to record meetings and take notes without using their smartphones. Users can set the Granola app as one of the watch faces to start transcribing at any time. The app can also show reminders about upcoming meetings
An untold number of Claude chats and artifacts (the interactive applets and documents that users can create within Claude) were found available for public search on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google brought up a long list of shared conversations. Some reportedly contained medical records,
