AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as βlarge donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.β
The filing also says that the βvast majorityβ of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.
Siri can now learn users' preferred music app, allowing Spotify listeners to request songs, podcasts, and playlists without specifying which app to use.
Over the past couple of years, weβve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafeβs claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address election interference, deceptive campaigns, weapons software, and surveillance.
New Yorkβs lawsuit against the company is one of more than two dozen cases brought by states accusing the social media giant of designing its platform to encourage addictive use among children.