Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era
Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis on safety and avoiding emotional dependency.
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TikTok launches AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.
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Reflection Unveils Beam, an Open-Weight AI Model Aimed at Rivaling Chinese Models at Lower Compute Cost
Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build "AI factories," a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflection's AI models on their own proprietary data.
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Etched reportedly offered funding at $40B+ valuation, sources say
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
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Lucid Motors' EV output falls to lowest level in almost two years
The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.
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OpenAI to Begin Watermarking ChatGPT Text in the EU
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
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