A new kind of SaaS: Y Combinator posted on X showing off what its latest startup Optifye.ai does. But the accelerator quickly took the post down after it became clear people really didn't love the fact that the startup makes performance monitoring software for manufacturing companies. Read More
Mistakes happen: OpenAI has released a clarification about the whitepaper it released last week. It said the paper was "incorrectly worded" regarding its work on persuasion research and said the research is separate from its plans to release a deep research model. Read More
Cheap thrills: It turns out that Anthropic's Claude 3.7 might not have been as expensive to train as everyone thought. It cost only "a few tens of millions of dollars," which, in the world of AI, is quite cheap. Read More
Let's see how AI does at fantasy character names: ElevenLabs is inviting authors to try out its latest feature: creating and publishing AI-generated audiobooks. The company raised $180 million last month and just announced a partnership with Spotify for AI audiobooks, too. Read More
Fix your security already: One of Australia's top fertility providers, Genea, has suffered a data breach, and a hacker group has published the private medical and personal data of its IVF patient. Read More
AI for due diligence: Bridgetown Research has raised $19 million from Accel and Lightspeed Ventures to use AI agents to conduct data collection and research and cut down the due diligence timeline and costs. Read More
