Swedish AI startup Lovable soars to $2 billion valuation, fueled by rapid growth of its web app-building product reaching $50 million ARR in 6 months and beta launch of AI agent for task automation.
Anysphere, an AI startup, poaches Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, key engineers from Anthropic's Claude team, to lead its efforts in developing 'agent-like' AI features for automating complex coding tasks, with Cherny as chief architect and head of engineering, and Wu as head of product.
Major AI companies scrape the internet for data to train their models, sparking lawsuits from rights holders and prompting deals to legally access data, signaling a shift towards a paid data economy.
Copilot coding agent gains web browsing capabilities, enabling it to interact with web apps, reproduce bugs, validate changes, and share screenshots in pull requests, enhancing its effectiveness as a coding assistant.
Cloudflare unleashes a global edge network and frictionless developer toolchain, while Oracle leverages its enterprise data gravity to fuel an AI-driven growth engine, presenting compelling alternatives to the dominant cloud giants.
In a groundbreaking development, a new class of autonomous AI systems called Deep Research agents is revolutionizing autonomous analysis through dynamic reasoning, adaptive planning, multi-hop information retrieval, iterative tool use, and generation of structured analytical reports utilizing advanced techniques.
OpenAI recalibrates compensation and explores creative rewards to counter Meta's aggressive hiring of its senior AI researchers, as the Chief Research Officer expresses concern over the talent raid.
In a bold move shaking up the generative AI landscape, Chinese tech giant Baidu releases its powerful Ernie large language model as open source, sparking debate over potential disruption and China's AI leadership while pressuring closed AI providers like OpenAI.
Hollywood pioneers AI-generated videos, with Asteria's generative models creating film assets from licensed material, while the upcoming 'Uncanny Valley' aims to showcase AI capabilities with human oversight, as filmmakers grapple with maintaining creative control.
OpenAI leadership defiantly vows to combat Meta's aggressive poaching of its top researchers, promising higher compensation and creative retention tactics as the AI lab shifts focus to achieving artificial general intelligence over product rollouts.