AI

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models

AI /

Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, said Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to the highly popular AI models Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan said in a post on X that Anthropic gave Windsurf little notice for this change, and the startup now […]

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models Read More »

Anthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversight

AI /

Anthropic has given its AI a blog. A week ago, Anthropic quietly launched Claude Explains, a new page on its website that’s generated mostly by the company’s AI model family, Claude. Populated by posts on technical topics related to various Claude use cases (e.g. “Simplify complex codebases with Claude”), the blog is intended to be

Anthropic’s AI is writing its own blog — with human oversight Read More »

Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety lab

AI /

Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is launching a nonprofit AI safety lab called LawZero to build safer AI systems, he told the Financial Times on Monday. LawZero raised $30 million in philanthropic contributions from Skype founding engineer Jaan Tallinn, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, Open Philanthropy, and the Future of Life Institute, among others. The

Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety lab Read More »

Wispr Flow releases iOS app in a bid to make dictation feel effortless

AI /

It feels like AI companies want us all to talk to their products out loud more often. Meta, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, to name a few, have added functionality to let users talk with their AI bots as naturally as they would with another person, taking advantage of advances in speech-to-text technology. A startup called

Wispr Flow releases iOS app in a bid to make dictation feel effortless Read More »

Former DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg co-leads $15.5M Series A for AI video ad platform

AI /

DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg’s venture fund WndrCo co-led a $15.5 million Series A round for Creatify, an AI video ad platform. Creatify’s AdMax platform uses AI to quickly generate dozens of video advertisements, which are geared toward social media marketing — AdMax analyzes high-performing social video campaigns on apps like TikTok and Instagram to shape

Former DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg co-leads $15.5M Series A for AI video ad platform Read More »

Microsoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generator

AI /

Microsoft Bing announced today that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which uses OpenAI’s Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts. OpenAI, which has a longstanding partnership with Microsoft, has locked down access to Sora‘s video generation for paying customers only. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the

Microsoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generator Read More »

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds

AI /

A platform for chatting and role-playing with AI-generated characters, Character.AI announced in a blog post on Monday that it is rolling out a slate of multimedia features. These features include AvatarFX, Character.AI’s video-generation model, plus Scenes and Streams, which allow users to create videos featuring their characters and then share them on a new social

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds Read More »