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Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off
Lovable has crossed annual run-rate revenue of $600 million, the company’s co-founder Fabian Hedin said at the HumanX summit in Amsterdam on Thursday. The vibe-coding platform in June said that number was…
Heads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could imperil humanity
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the…
Your customer service representative would like to speak to a human
Customer service workers have gotten used to the now-common question coming from the other end of the line: “Wait, are you an AI?” Being mistaken for the technology your employer hopes will…
The Nepo-Babies Whose Lives Are Being Warped by AI
Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo Mary Salen/Getty Images Recently, I Googled my own name. I sometimes do this for perhaps an odd reason: to find photos of myself and my late father, the…
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
A Live Avatar to fit your brand needs Organizations often need distinct visual identities to fit their brand. In addition to a library of diverse, preset avatars, organizations can customize their Live…
Peter Thiel slams pope’s AI encyclical as gift to Chinese Communist Party
“I’m not saying he was an agent of the communists, but he was at least acting as a useful idiot for the CCP,” Thiel added. Spokespeople for the Vatican did not immediately…
The AI agent revolution has moved a big step closer
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nearly four years after ChatGPT triggered the chatbot boom, a new type…
Meta hits market first with consumer AI device but strategy unproven
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long been set on owning the hardware that consumers use to access his company’s apps. As he pushes to make the Muse AI agent the “centerpiece” of…
It’s cute. It’s cuddly. And it wants all your data.
Meta hopes its new AI agent will win people over by being cute. Muse, the tech giant’s cuddly, doll-like AI agent, shot to the top of the Apple App Store charts after…