- May 1, 2025
Amazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbots
Amazon wants companies to build public-facing chatbots using its Q Business assistant. On Wednesday, the company said Q Business, its AWS-hosted AI assistant that can
Threads tops 350M monthly users after adding 30M in the quarter
Instagram Threads, Meta’s X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings
WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion users a month
WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion people using it every month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company’s Q1 results conference call on
From tech pioneers to ‘extremists’: Belarusian founders face exile and statelessness
In 2013, Tatyana Marynich and Anastasiya Khamiankova opened the doors to Imaguru, a startup hub in Minsk, Belarus that would go on to launch some
Study accuses LM Arena of helping top AI labs game its benchmark
A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena, of
Epic Games just scored a win against Apple
Epic Games notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple. The result could be Fortnite returning to the U.S. iOS app store as
Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device
Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, unveiled Wednesday a mobile device designed to help
Tesla’s board reportedly sought a successor while Musk wheeled around Washington
According to a new, brow-raising WSJ report, Tesla’s board quietly began searching for Elon Musk’s potential successor about a month ago, approaching executive search firms
Microsoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systems
Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI’s o3-mini on at least one benchmark. All
World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more places
World, the biometric ID company best known for its eyeball-scanning Orb devices, on Wednesday announced several partnerships aimed at driving sign-ups and demonstrating the applications