California’s state senate recently gave final approval to a new AI safety bill, SB 53, sending it to Governor Gavin Newsom to either sign or veto.
If this all sounds familiar, that’s because Newsom vetoed another AI safety bill, also written by state senator Scott Wiener, last year. But SB 53 is narrower than Wiener’s previous SB 1047, with a focus on big AI companies making more…
Meta Ray-Ban Display and everything else unveiled at Meta Connect 2025
September 22, 2025
At Meta Connect 2025, the company’s biggest event of the year, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled three new smart glasses: the second-generation Ray-Ban Meta, the Meta Ray-Ban Display and wristband controller, and the Oakley Meta Vanguard.
Meta says it has sold 2 million of the…
How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26
September 22, 2025
Earlier this year, Apple introduced its Foundation Models framework during WWDC 2025, which allows developers to use the company’s local AI models to power features in their applications.
The company touted that with this framework, developers gain access to AI models…
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
September 19, 2025
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users.
2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple…
Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B
September 19, 2025
Productivity software giant Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet to add a developer productivity tool to its product suite.
Atlassian announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire the developer productivity insight platform DX for $1 billion in cash and restricted…
India leads the way on Google’s Nano Banana with a local creative twist
September 19, 2025
Google’s Nano Banana image-generation model, officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, has fueled global momentum for the Gemini app since launching last month. But in India, it has taken on a creative life of its own, with retro portraits and local trends going…
Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI co-worker for fintech
September 18, 2025
Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services won’t be about flashy AI interfaces but rather the unglamorous back-office tasks like compliance.
The startup, founded in 2024 by Gideon Ebose and Chidi Williams, two Nigerian engineers who met in London, just raised a $2.1 million pre-seed round led by Bowery Capital, with participation from Y…
The 9 most sought-after startups from YC Demo Day
September 18, 2025
Y Combinator hosted its Summer 2025 Demo Day last week, showcasing the latest batch of over 160 startups.
As with recent batches, the majority of startups presented AI-centric solutions. However, a clear evolution was evident. Instead of “AI-powered” products…
Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse
September 18, 2025
When Mark Lee was a law student at Harvard, a trademark class exposed him to the staggering scale of counterfeiting, an illicit industry worth more than $3 trillion annually and set him on an unexpected path to entrepreneurship.
“I was always broadly interested in…
How Intuit killed the chatbot crutch – and built an agentic AI playbook you can copy
September 1, 2025
In the frenzied land rush for generative AI that followed ChatGPT’s debut, the mandate from Intuit’s CEO was clear: ship the company’s largest, most shocking AI-driven launch by Sept. 2023.
Responding with blazing speed, the $200 billion company behind QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mailchimp, delivered Intuit Assist, the company’s new generative AI assistant. Its most prominent feature was a…
