BitcoinWorld Whatnot acquires AI startup Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations Livestream shopping app Whatnot announced Wednesday that it has acquired Shaped, a machine learning company specializing in real-time recommendation and search systems, to strengthen its discovery and personalization capabilities as the platform expands across new product categories and millions of buyers. Why the …
BitcoinWorld DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Calls for Independent Standards Body to Regulate Frontier AI DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed the creation of an independent standards body to oversee frontier AI model releases, drawing a direct parallel to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). In a post on X on Tuesday morning, Hassabis outlined a framework …
BitcoinWorld Meta’s Adam Mosseri Warns AI Token Budgets May Be Capped Per Engineer Within Two Years Instagram head Adam Mosseri has predicted that Meta may need to impose caps on AI token spending per engineer within the next one to two years, as the company faces ballooning costs from internal AI experimentation. Speaking on Lenny’s …
BitcoinWorld Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery, adds AI image generation in Search Google is rolling out a significant redesign of Google Images that transforms the image search engine into a browsable, discovery-focused gallery similar to Pinterest, the company announced as it marks 25 years since the debut of Google Images. The …
BitcoinWorld New York becomes first state to halt data center construction as Governor Hochul signs executive order New York State has become the first in the nation to pause the construction of new data centers, after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today temporarily barring state agencies from approving permits for projects of 50 …
BitcoinWorld Already rich, already successful: Why tech’s biggest winners are grinding again in AI A pattern is emerging among people who have already made it big in tech. They are rolling up their sleeves again — not for a comfortable board seat or advisory role, but for hands-on, often grueling work at the frontier of …
BitcoinWorld Uber’s Product Chief on Hotels, Robotaxis, and Why the Company Won’t Be ‘Everything for Everyone’ Uber has quietly expanded beyond ride-hailing and food delivery, adding hotel bookings, boat rentals, and concierge shopping features. In a recent interview, Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal outlined the company’s strategy, its evolving relationship with autonomous vehicle partners like …
BitcoinWorld AI Video Startup PixVerse Raises $439M, Valuation Tops $2B as World Model Ambitions Grow Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse has closed a substantial Series C extension, raising a total of $439 million in the round and pushing its valuation past the $2 billion mark, the company confirmed to Bitcoin World. The funding marks one …
BitcoinWorld Nous Research in talks to raise $75M+ at $1.5B valuation for its open-source Hermes AI agent Nous Research, the startup behind the popular open-source Hermes AI agent, is finalizing a new funding round that could value the company at approximately $1.5 billion, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the deal. The round …
BitcoinWorld Satya Nadella Warns Enterprises: Proprietary AI Models May Be Training on Your Most Sensitive Data Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has issued a striking warning to enterprises using proprietary artificial intelligence models, arguing that companies may be unknowingly handing over their most sensitive business data to the very AI labs they rely on. In a …
