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Ex-Pickup Guru Mystery Rebrands Himself Around an AI Girlfriend—and a Very Strange Love Story

Mystery is promoting an AI girlfriend project that blurs romance, performance and dependence—and raises fresh concerns about AI attachment.

AI agents startup Prime Intellect raised $130M at a $1B valuation to help enterprises build custom systems without frontier labs.

AI startup revenue is surging faster than ever, with Mercor, Anthropic, Sierra, Glean, Gusto and Clio posting rapid milestone gains.

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT voice mode with GPT-Live-1, bringing real-time conversation, fewer interruptions and new translation features.

Meta adds an AI glasses privacy safeguard, but its wider AI data strategy keeps user trust and surveillance fears in the spotlight.

OpenAI’s new voice models aim to make ChatGPT sound more natural, support live translation and longer conversations, and improve turn-taking.

Google Photos adds AI video remix tools that transform clips with new backgrounds, lighting, and artistic effects for paid subscribers.

Google’s AI watermark helped debunk a viral McConnell deepfake, showing how SynthID can expose hoaxes after they spread online.

Self-improving AI is no longer just a frontier-lab idea. A new experiment shows smaller teams can train useful models that improve on their own.

India venture fund Fundamentum raises a $200M third fund as Nandan Nilekani steps back from GP duties but stays on as anchor investor.