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AI Drug Patents Must Name Human Inventors
AI-designed drugs hit a wall in US patent law: only humans can be named inventors, so companies like Insilico Medicine credit people — not their generative AI systems — when filing.
Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Micro1, an AI training data startup, grew its gross annual run rate from $100M to $500M over the past eight months as top AI labs and corporations scramble for unique training data.
Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Nevada's Transportation Authority has cleared Tesla to deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber each received permits for up to 1,000 vehicles.
Micro1 Hits $500M Run Rate, Still Trails Mercor
AI training-data startup Micro1 has surged from $100 million to $500 million in gross annual run rate over the past eight months, reflecting breakneck demand from frontier AI labs.
Judge Tosses Part of Ex-Google Engineer's AI Conviction
A US federal judge on Thursday partially overturned the conviction of Linwei Ding, a former Google software engineer found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies.
OpenAI Adds Apple Messages Plugin to ChatGPT on Mac
OpenAI released an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS that lets the assistant read, search, and analyze Messages conversations as well as prepare and send texts.
OpenAI Narrows Anthropic's Lead Among U.S. Businesses
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic among U.S. business users according to Ramp data, though Anthropic still leads with nearly 44% market share to OpenAI's nearly 40% as of July, and the overall enterprise
ChatGPT Apple Messages plug-in sends and deletes texts
OpenAI launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT that can sort, draft, send, and delete texts directly from users' inboxes, with the company emphasizing the tool runs locally and warning users no
Google Discover Adds AI Chatbot Feed Customization
Google is adding an AI chatbot interface to Discover that lets users describe their content preferences in natural language, with the feed automatically adjusting and remembering choices across visits
Poolside inks $6B Nvidia deal at $12B valuation
AI model-building startup Poolside has struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia alongside a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation, with 109 Poolside staffers receiving Nvidia job o
Google Adds Publisher ‘Preferred Sources’ Button
Google launched an embeddable “Preferred Sources” button that lets readers steer search, news, and discovery results toward favored publishers as AI search continues eroding website traffic.
Zuckerberg and Amodei Clash Over AI Backlash
Silicon Valley's top AI CEOs are publicly feuding over the root cause of growing public opposition to AI, but polling suggests their debate misses broader American anxieties about jobs, relationships,
Anthropic Lets Enterprises Self-Host Retained Data
Anthropic plans a new safety system later this year that maintains its 30-day data retention requirement for enterprise customers but lets those companies keep the stored data on their own cloud infra
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
Pew Research found that over one-third of web pages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 release show signs of AI authorship, with .com domains showing AI tells at roughly ten times the rate of .go
Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield
Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh has left Cota Capital to join 57-year-old Mayfield as an infrastructure partner, drawn by its semiconductor portfolio and ability to write seed checks up to $20 mill
Vendo Opens Customization Layer for B2B SaaS
Vendo, a YC S26 company, launched an open-source customization layer that lets B2B SaaS customers build their own features and micro-apps directly on top of a host product, acting through the product'
Developer Builds Local Tool to Decode Claude's 'Token Vomit'
Developer Zach Ahn released "Vomit," a fully local, open-source tool that pipes Claude's garbled output through a second local LLM to render it into readable English, with caveats about slowness and h
Pixel 11 Hits Stores to Split Reviews
Google's Pixel 11 series has gone on sale, drawing sharply divided early reviews — with one outlet hailing it as the top Android phone and another questioning whether Google's Pixel magic is fading.
Manic Android Malware Uses Nearby Devices to Steal Data
A new Android malware dubbed "Manic" combines banking fraud and spyware capabilities with a novel Wi-Fi mesh technique that lets it exfiltrate data from offline devices through nearby compromised phon
Pixel 11 Pro Reviews Split on Phone's Future
Leading tech outlets published long-term Pixel 11 Pro reviews within days of each other, and their verdicts split sharply: most flag concerns about Google's Pixel direction, while CNN frames it as the
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