The New York Times filed suit Friday against AI search startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, its second lawsuit against an AI company. The Times joins several media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed suit this week.
The Times’ suit claims that “Perplexity provides commercial products to its own users that substitute” for the outlet…
Meta’s decision to serve only its AI chatbot, Meta AI, to WhatsApp users isn’t sitting well with the competition regulators in Europe. The European Commission on Thursday said it is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta’s move to ban other AI…
AI finds its way into Apple’s top apps of the year
December 5, 2025
Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year.
For 2025, the winning iPhone app was visual planner Tiimo, and the iPhone game of the year was the card game Pokémon TCG…
Nexus isn’t going all in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups
December 5, 2025
While many venture firms seem to only have eyes for AI these days, Nexus Venture Partners is deliberately splitting its focus for its new $700 million fund.
The firm will back AI startups and seek out India-focused startups in consumer, fintech, and digital infrastructure.
AI has soaked up most of the venture capital raised globally and the 20-year-old VC firm also sees AI as a defining…
Right on the heels of announcing Nova Forge, a service to train custom Nova AI models, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced more tools for enterprise customers to create their own frontier models.
AWS announced new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI at its…
Google Photos users can now access their year-end Recap, the photo-hosting site’s own version of something akin to Spotify Wrapped. Like other annual reviews, the Google Photos Recap lets you look back on your past year in photos, offering a combination of memorable…
Amazon announced a new product Tuesday called “AI Factories” that allows big corporations and governments to run its AI systems in their own data centers. Or as AWS puts it: Customers supply the power and the data center, and AWS plunks in the AI system, manages it, and can tie it into other AWS cloud services.
The idea is to cater to companies and governments concerned with data…
Simular’s AI agent wants to run your Mac, Windows PC for you
December 3, 2025
Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has raised a $21.5 million Series A led by Felicis, with NVentures (Nvidia’s venture arm), existing seed investor South Park Commons, and others joining in.
Simular is an interesting agentic startup because…
French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday, a launch that aims to prove it can lead in making AI publicly available and serve business clients better than Big Tech rivals.
The 10-model release includes a large frontier model…
What does it mean when Uncle Sam is one of your biggest shareholders? Chip startup xLight is about to find out
December 3, 2025
The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into xLight, a semiconductor startup developing advanced chip-making technology, marking the third time the U.S. government has taken an equity position in a private startup and further expanding a controversial strategy that has put Washington on the cap tables of American companies.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the…
