Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; ordered it to pay damages
A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission.
Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases.
AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia
by Julie Bort
WisdomAI is offering AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors.
Anthropic announces $50 billion data center plan
Anthropic has launched an ambitious new data center partnership with the UK-based Fluidstack, committing $50 billion to building facilities across the US.
Google’s November Pixel Drop Brings New AI Features
It looks like AI meets cultural flair — from remixing photos in Messages and summarizing long chats, to new “Wicked: For Good” themes and smarter safety tools.
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Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product
Marble is different from competitors like Odyssey, Decart, and Google’s Genie because creates persistent, downloadable 3D environments rather than generating worlds on-the-fly as you explore.
AI Giants Accidentally Leaking Secrets on GitHub
Research by Wiz shows that industry titans, with combined valuations exceeding $400 billion, have left the equivalent of their front doors propped open.
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AI Helps SoftBank Double Profit to $16.6B
SoftBank also revealed its complete divestment from Nvidia, which generated $5.8 billion.
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Microsoft-backed VEIR is bringing superconductors to data centers
by Tim De Chant
The Massachusetts-based startup is taking tech developed for long distance transmissions lines to solve an emerging problem for data center designers.
Samsung Vision AI Companion Turns TVs Into Smart Assistants
Who is that actor? Where was this scene filmed? Samsung’s latest launch could help with the answers.
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Figma bets on India to expand beyond design
Figma has opened a new office in Bengaluru as part of a push to deepen its India ties and appeal to more developers.
The global race for the AI app layer is still on
by Anna Heim
The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models, at least in funding. But the picture is different for the application layer, global VC firm Accel highlighted in its 2025 Globalscape report.
SoftBank’s Nvidia sale rattles market, raises questions
Wall Street can’t help but wonder: does Son see something right now that others do not?
Microsoft to Invest $10B in Portugal AI Data Center Hub
Microsoft is investing $10B to build an AI data center hub in Sines, Portugal, partnering with Start Campus and Nscale to power Europe’s AI future.
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Immortality startup Eternos pivots to a personal AI that sounds like you
Uare.ai raised $10.3 million in seed funding led by Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures.
How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit
by Tim De Chant
Two experienced investors share their tips for founders and operators hoping to nail product-market fit at their AI startups.
Wonderful raised $100M Series A to put AI agents on the front lines of customer service
Israeli AI agent startup Wonderful has raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Insight Partners, IVP, Bessemer, and Vine Ventures. The large round, in a market already crowded with AI a…
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup
by Ram Iyer
Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at Meta, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, which will focus on continuing his work on world models.
A former physician has launched Robyn, an empathetic AI companion
by Ivan Mehta
Robyn wants to position it self as an empathetic chatbot and not as a companion or a therapy app
Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages
Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages.
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Lovable says it’s nearing 8 million users as the year-old AI coding startup eyes more corporate employees
The platform has attracted an eclectic user base. More than half of Fortune 500 companies are using Lovable to “supercharge creativity,” according to Osika, who insisted retention remains strong.
The circular money problem at the heart of AI’s biggest deals
SoftBank and OpenAI announced a new 50-50 joint venture this week to sell enterprise AI tools in Japan under the brand “Crystal Intelligence.” On paper, it’s a straightforward international expansion deal. But Soft…
VC Jennifer Neundorfer explains how founders can stand out in a crowded AI market
January Ventures co-founder Jennifer Neundorfer discussed this AI-driven funding market on the Equity podcast during TechCrunch Disrupt.
Researchers isolate memorization from reasoning in AI neural networks
Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.
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