Fearless Fund co-founder steps down: Ayana Parsons said she was leaving her position as chief operating officer of the venture capital firm. Read more
The day the AI music died: Like many AI companies, Udio and Suno relied on large-scale theft to create their generative AI models. This they have as much as admitted, even before the music industry's new lawsuits against them have gone before a judge. Read more
Stability gets some capital but won't say how much: Stability AI, the beleaguered generative AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, is making changes. Among them, Napster founder and ex-Facebook exec Sean Parker, who is part of the investor group, is now executive board chairman. Read more
Gemini wants to help with email: Google is rolling out its new Gemini AI side panel in Gmail that can help you write emails and summarize email threads. With the new integration, you can use Gemini in Gmail to get help drafting an email or receive suggested responses to an email. Read more
Threads in the fediverse: Instagram's Threads expands further into the fediverse and is now opening its beta for sharing to users who are 18 and up and who are using Threads with a public account in global markets. Read more
Circular and Oura settle: As part of a settlement agreement in an ongoing patent suit, Circular has agreed to a multi-year agreement with Oura where the French company will license the market leader's intellectual property for devices sold in the U.S. Read more
iPhone looks in the mirror: iPhone Mirroring, one of the more notable features arriving in Apple's upcoming operating systems, is now available to developers testing the beta versions of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. Read more
Boeing's Wisk Aero buys Verocel: Verocel is a software verification and validation company that's been serving the aerospace industry for 25 years. Read more
Finding a job in the U.S. is no picnic if you're an immigrant: Luckily, Jobright has created an AI agent that acts just like a headhunter tailored to your skills. Read more
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Payabli is building payment management tools for software startups. Read more
Tengo untangles the messy world of public sector procurement with AI. Read more
Smashing, from Goodreads' co-founder, curates the best of the web using AI and human recommendations. Read more
Backed by David Sacks, Garry Tan and Walter Isaacson, Created by Humans helps people license their creative work to AI models. Read more
Coder nabs new funds to move dev environments to the cloud. Read more
k-ID wins $45 million to help game devs speedrun the child safety compliance puzzle. Read more
