Persona helps companies like OpenAI, LinkedIn and Reddit verify the identities of millions of users at a time when AI agents have made it increasingly difficult to do so. Now, it has $200 million in fresh funding from top VC firms.
AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that’s not the case.
With publishers scrambling to adjust to a world in which AI scrapes and repurposes their work, a new cohort of companies is emerging to forge licensing deals between content creators and AI companies.
Backed by $200 million in funding, 28-year-old Scott Wu and his team of competitive coders at Cognition are building an AI tool that can program entirely on its own, like an “army of junior engineers.”
Drew Crecente’s daughter was brutally murdered 18 years ago. Someone made a chatbot on unicorn startup Character AI’s platform using her name and yearbook photo.
Moveworks has crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, a milestone that many hyped AI startups have not yet reached.
Cursor’s AI code editing and autocompletion tools have gained popularity among engineers at leading AI startups like OpenAI and Midjourney.
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos, and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its frequent users.
“Top-rated sellers” on eBay are selling thousands of AI-generated and photoshopped pornographic images of at least 40 celebrities including Taylor Swift and Jenna Ortega.
A host of startups are building robots and stuffed toys that can have full-fledged conversations with children, thanks to generative AI.