OpenAI’s Sora may have gone out of business, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will let you create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on
BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with climate technology. Now, it’s definitely “off.” In addition to moving away from clean energy earlier this year, the oil giant announced today that it would sell most of its portfolio of companies (more than 10 companies, according to BP) to Verdane, a Nordic private equity firm. Since
Newsletter platform Beehiiv is expanding into new avenues of engagement with the launch of a feature called Community, which allows a creator’s subscribers to chat with each other. The company also launched a new AI Copilot that helps creators manage and grow their audience. The updates come as Beehiiv positions itself as a platform for
Google might launch an AI product under one name during its experimental phase, but it will eventually tie it all to Gemini. In the latest example of this trend, the company is renaming its AI-based research product NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. The company is also adding features to make the tool more interactive by incorporating
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing that visual AI was the frontier he wanted to push into. It achieved breakneck fundraising that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-equity ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the largest rounds in US history. In this episode of Build Mode, host and Startup Battlefield lead Isabelle Johannessen
Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative artificial intelligence offering, arrives in China. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that China’s Internet content regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, approved Apple’s artificial intelligence services in the country thanks to a deal to integrate Alibaba’s Qwen AI model into Apple’s operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS. Late
