​The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences.  

​Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action.  

​An AI Siri is in the works and it could be running Gemini under the hood.  

​Mike Liberatore left xAI at the end of July. He is the latest in a string of executive departures at Elon Musk’s AI firm.  

​FirstClub has raised $23 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and RTP Global to expand its premium quick commerce platform.  

​CoreWeave hopes the YC-backed startup will help it expand down the stack, and cash in on enterprises developing AI agents.  

​SpaceX is one step closer to nearly tripling the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida.  

​Pornhub owner Aylo will pay a $5 million settlement to the FTC and Utah over allegations that the company knowingly profited off of illegal materials.  

​The tech giant is introducing Material 3 Expressive to Pixel phones, Adaptive Audio for the Pixel Buds Pro 2, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, new AI writing tools in Gboard, enhanced audio sharing capabilities, the ability to create custom Android bots, and more.  

​The startup uses truck-mounted cameras to collect and analyze data about crop health.