Meta ran ads for a nudify app featuring a porn video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician; Apple removed the app from the App Store

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Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’

Travis Kalanick certainly has had a love-hate relationship with VCs over his career. As the founder of Uber he was a VC darling, raising what was then an unprecedented roughly $15 billion in venture funding during his tenure. Then, a boardroom battle with key investor Bill Gurley of venture firm

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Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

Elon Musk’s SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition as it works to catch up to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI race, Bloomberg reported Wedesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Cognition CEO Scott Wu disputed the report soon after it published, writing on X that

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Google is giving college students a free year of AI Pro, and a raft of study tools

Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving eligible college students a free year of its paid AI plan. The company set out the changes in a back-to-school post on Wednesday. The headline offer is the

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Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten teams up with German startup to build military drones

* Rakuten is helping Helsing navigate Japan's complicated military procurement system * Helsing's HX-2 strike drone is already undergoing trials with Japan's military * Japan's expanding defence budget is attracting overseas military technology companies Rakuten has revealed it is now working with German defense AI