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AI companies are clustering around healthcare and fast.  In just the past week, OpenAI bought health startup Torch, Anthropic launched Claude for healthcare, and Sam Altman-backed MergeLabs closed a $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into health and voice AI, but so are concerns about hallucination risks, inaccurate medical information, and […]

AI companies are clustering around healthcare, and fast.  In just the past week, OpenAIbought health startup Torch, Anthropic launchedClaude for Health, and Sam Altman-backedMerge Labs closed a $250 million seed roundat an $850 million valuation. The money and products are pouring into healthand voice AI, but so are concerns about hallucination risks, inaccurate medical information,

The breakthrough that makes robot faces feel less creepy Columbia engineers have taught a robot to learn lip movements by observation, much like a human learning in front of a mirror. When people talk face to face, nearly half of their attention is drawn to the movement of the lips. Despite this, robots still have

It took Rebecca Yu seven days to vibe code her dining app. She was tired of the decision fatigue that comes from people in a group chat not being able to decide where to eat.  Armed with determination, Claude, and ChatGPT, Yu decided tojust build a dining app from scratch— one that would recommend restaurants

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers.

Anthropic has appointed Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its India business as the U.S. AI startupprepares to open an office in Bengaluru. The move underscores how India is becoming a key battleground for AI companies looking to expand beyond the U.S. for major growth markets. Ghose brings deep big-tech operating

OpenAI and Microsoft tried to dodge a courtroom showdown with Elon Musk, but a federal judgewasn’t having it, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. On Thursday she rejected their dismissal requests and set the case for a jury trial in late April, meaning they’ll officially duke it out in an Oakland courtroom, with Microsoft also dragged

AI AI video startup, Higgsfield, founded by ex-Snap exec, lands $1.3B valuation Julie Bort 5 hours ago Security Iran’s internet shutdown is now one of its longest ever, as protests continue Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 6 hours ago Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai AI The US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips headed to China Rebecca Szkutak 8 hours

AI labs just can’t get their employees to stay put. Yesterday’s big AI news was the abrupt and seemingly acrimonious departure of three top executives at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines lab. All three were quickly snapped up by OpenAI, and now it seems they won’t be the last to leave.Alex Heath is reportingthat two more

The Trump administration signed a notable multi-billion-dollar trade deal with Taiwan that’s designed to help the United States boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing. Under the deal announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday, Taiwanese semiconductor and tech companies have agreed to make direct investments of $250 billion into the U.S. semiconductor industry. These investments