Silicon Valley’s two biggest dramas have intersected: LiteLLM and Delve
LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.
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ByteDance’s new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut
The new model in CapCut will have built-in protections for making video from real faces or unauthorized intellectual property.
Why hiring the weirdos works
When you’re building at breakneck speed, hiring a trusted team is crucial for an early-stage startup. Bland CEO and co-founder Isaiah Granet has tactical advice on how the company managed to find hidden talent in unlikely places.
A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Here’s what you need to know.
Here’s what we know, and what you need to know, about Coruna and DarkSword, two advanced iPhone hacking tools discovered by security researchers. DarkSword has now leaked online.
Herbalife acquires Bioniq in a deal worth up to $150M
The London-based personalised supplement startup, which uses blood biomarker data to formulate individual supplement regimens, will be integrated into Herbalife’s 95-market network. The $55M guaranteed price is paid over five years; up to $95M in additional contingent payments takes the total to $150M. Herbalife has been searching for a credible data-driven answer to the personalisation […]This story continues at The Next Web
Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems
Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.
Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription
Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages.
WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations
The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching a way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more.
A ‘pound of flesh’ from data centers: one senator’s answer to AI job losses
Fears of AI-driven job loss are growing fast, and they’re fueling backlash against data centers. Sen. Mark Warner suggests taxing them to help workers survive the transition.
Theia Insights raises $8M to replace the static industry classification systems
The Cambridge-based AI company, founded by a former Amazon Alexa research scientist, builds a self-learning economic map that models companies as multidimensional entities rather than forcing them into a single bucket. MiddleGame Ventures led; Unusual Ventures returned. Amazon is not a retailer. It is also a cloud computing provider, a logistics operator, an advertising network, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free
The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform. Google Cloud has been expanding its Chirp 3 HD voices. OpenAI continues to iterate on its own speech synthesis. And the market underpinning all of this activity is enormous — voice AI crossed $22 billion globally in 2026, with the voice AI agents segment alone projected to reach $47.5 billion
Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation
The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI.
Elon Musk Left Out of Trump’s Tech Bro Council
President Donald Trump’s newly formed advisory council is stacked with a who’s who in tech—with one glaring omission. The ...
A 10th cofounder is leaving xAI. Elon Musk has just one more left.
Manuel Kroiss is one of 11 engineers who helped launch xAI alongside Elon Musk in 2023. The number of cofounder departures now sits at 10.
Elon Musk Found Liable By Jury For Misleading Twitter Investors In $44 Billion Deal, Faces Potential $2.5 Billion Damages
On Friday, a federal jury in San Francisco determined that Elon Musk made misleading statements about the number of spam and bot accounts on Twitter shortly after agreeing to acquire the company for $44 billion in April 2022. Jury Finds Musk Liable Over Twitter Bot Claims Jurors found him liable for two statements, including his claim that the deal was "temporarily on hold" pending verification of bot data and his suggestion that fake accounts could exceed 20%, Reuters reported. However, the jur
When will SpaceX complete its IPO? Here's when prediction market thinks Elon Musk's company will go public
The Initial public offering (IPO) of Elon Musk-led SpaceX is one of the most-awaited IPOs of the year, as it is expected to ...
Newsom tears into Elon Musk labeling him ‘one of the great disappointments’ of this era
Newsom accused Musk of ceding the electric vehicle market to China, and instead shifting Tesla’s focus to robotics ...
Bernie Sanders Says Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos And Mark Zuckerberg Among Other 'Oligarchs' Whose AI Agenda Is Hurting 'Working Families'
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) escalated his criticism of the artificial intelligence boom on Tuesday, warning on the Senate floor that what he called "The Big Tech Oligarchs" want an AI revolution that ...
Ashley St. Clair says she found Elon Musk “intoxicating” because she didn’t have a “fully developed prefrontal cortex” at the time
Ashley St. Clair talked about how she found Elon Musk "very interesting" because "guys my age are not talking about philosophy or Schopenhauer or the Greeks." ...
Uber, Pony.ai, and Rimac’s Verne announce Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service
On-road testing in Croatia’s capital is already underway using Pony.ai’s Gen-7 system on the Arcfox Alpha T5, a Chinese-manufactured robotaxi. Uber intends to invest in Verne. The three companies plan to scale to thousands of vehicles across Europe, but have declined to announce a commercial launch date. Mate Rimac built his reputation making electric hypercars […]This story continues at The Next Web