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Reddit is testing videos that use AI generated voices to read selected text posts and comments aloud. The feature presents a thread as a short video, with the spoken text highlighted on screen as the narration progresses. Jay Peters reports for The Verge that Reddit is manually choosing which existing posts become videos. The experiment …
OpenAI’s enterprise business now generates more revenue than its ChatGPT-led consumer operations, according to comments by chief financial officer Sarah Friar to investors. Kate Rooney reports for CNBC that Friar said the company began the year with revenue split roughly 60% consumer and 40% enterprise, but business demand grew faster than expected. Friar told investors …
Stripe plans to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace and gateway used by developers and companies to access models from multiple providers. OpenRouter announces in an official blog post that the deal remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the coming weeks. The company says its product, name, mission and …
Spotify plans to introduce labels for artist profiles that it determines do not represent real people. Starting in mid-September, profiles identified as artificial identities will receive an “AI Persona” badge across the streaming service. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that the platform will also keep music from these profiles out of editorial selections and …
Google is introducing a setting that lets users remove visible watermarks from AI generated images, videos and music created in Gemini and Flow. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that the option controls the small sparkle symbol shown in the lower right corner of media produced with Google’s Nano Banana and Omni models. Users can …
Twitch plans to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon’s generative AI models, unless creators switch off a new setting. Amanda Silberling reports for TechCrunch that the policy has prompted strong criticism because creators are included by default. Recorded livestreams can provide Amazon with large volumes of video and audio, including footage …
AI software creation platform Lovable has raised $400 million in a Series C round that values the company at $13.3 billion. Lovable announces in an official blog post that Menlo Ventures leads the financing, while EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund co-leads it. The round brings in investors including Balderton Capital, Carmignac, Kaszek Ventures, Tencent and Regent. …
Amazon is investing in a natural gas power plant in West Texas designed to supply a planned artificial intelligence data center. The project could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States if it operates at the limits set by its permits. Permits reviewed by Cleanview show that the facility in …
Anthropic plans to add machine readable marks to content generated by future Claude models. The company says models introduced after August 2, 2026 will embed invisible watermarks in generated text and attach signed provenance metadata to supported files. The policy is part of Anthropic’s commitments under the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice …
OpenAI says it has slowed some work on its upcoming model Astra after internal testing suggested it may have reached a new level of cybersecurity capability. The company says it “cannot rule out” that Astra meets its Critical threshold under its Preparedness Framework, its highest risk category for cyber capabilities. Under that framework, a model …