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Nvidia reportedly acquires synthetic data startup Gretel

Nvidia has reportedly acquired Gretel, a San Diego-based startup that’s developed a platform to generate synthetic AI training data. Terms of the acquisition are unknown.

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People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images

Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google’s new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including from images published by

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Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe’s Digital Markets Act

Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump Administration to openly support Europe’s Digital Markets

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In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave

In a grandmaster-level chest move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with GPU-heavy cloud service, CoreWeave, Reuters reports citing people close to the

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in

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Klarna CEO doubts that other companies will replace Salesforce with AI

The founder and CEO of IPO-bound fintech Klarna took to X to once again explain why his company ditched Salesforce’s flagship CRM product about a

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Researchers explore how to build shapeshifting, T-1000-style robots

Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a

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These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance

There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it’s understandable if

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This mental health chatbot aims to fill the counseling gap at understaffed schools

As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing companion” called Sonny

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Your Android phone could have stalkerware. Here’s how to remove it

Consumer-grade spyware apps that covertly and continually monitor your private messages, photos, phone calls and real-time location are an ongoing problem for Android users. This