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Hinge Founder Justin McLeod Raises $18M for AI Dating Startup Overtone

Hinge founder Justin McLeod raised $18M for Overtone, an AI dating startup using voice and curated introductions to challenge swipe apps.

Apple opens its new Siri to public testers in iOS 27, bringing AI-powered assistant features to billions of devices before the September launch.

Publishers and authors sue Google, alleging Gemini was trained on copyrighted books without permission in a major AI training lawsuit.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis wants an independent standards body for frontier AI regulation, modeled on FINRA and backed by government.

Meta faces a lawsuit over alleged AI layoffs that reportedly targeted workers on leave during May cuts affecting about 8,000 staff.

Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets may soon be capped per engineer as rising model costs force companies to tighten usage.

A new report says YouTube and X sent millions to nudify apps, exposing how mainstream platforms help spread nonconsensual explicit deepfakes.

Google Images is getting a personalized browse feed, while Google Search adds AI-generated images in Overviews with Nano Banana 2 Lite.

Google Images gets a Pinterest-style redesign with a For You feed, collections and AI image generation in Search.

Spotify is testing a Spotify AI chatbot for Premium users, letting them search music, podcasts and audiobooks by typing or speaking.