Category Applications

Databricks Reaches $188 Billion Valuation as Investors Reward Its AI Turn

Databricks valuation jumps to $188B as investors back its AI pivot, new products and enterprise cost-control strategy.

AI transcription is making recording the default, prompting privacy backlash, legal questions and a new etiquette around consent.

TikTok is testing AI likeness detection for creators, letting them scan for deepfakes and report unauthorized uses of their image.

Apple OpenAI lawsuit escalates the AI rivalry into court as Siri AI debuts, raising stakes over platform control and consumer AI.

Patreon is blocking AI scraping with Cloudflare tools, replacing robots.txt requests with direct enforcement to protect creators' work.

San Francisco demands Apple and Google remove nudify apps, saying the stores helped profit from AI deepfakes and failed to stop abuse.

OpenAI lawsuit fallout grows as Apple fights over secrets, employees launch a super PAC, and New York moves against data centers.

Google Vids adds AI video avatars and Gemini Omni, letting users create and edit personalized videos faster for work and training.

Roblox launches AI game creation in its mobile app, letting users build games from prompts while addressing quality and discovery concerns.

Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and expands integration with Gemini, Search AI Mode, and cloud code execution.