DEEPX, a South Korean on-device AI chip startup, raised $80 million in Series C funding at a $529 million valuation. The funding will support the development of AI applications in electronic devices. This brings the company's total raise to around $95 million.

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Meta's Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses receive AI-powered upgrades, including real-time conversation and language translation, through firmware v11.

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Google has appointed Preeti Lobana as its new India chief, replacing Sanjay Gupta who was promoted to Asia-Pacific president in July. Lobana was previously vice president of advertising technology at Google.

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Google DeepMind's new video AI, Veo 2, can generate higher resolution and longer videos compared to OpenAI's Sora. However, current limitations in Google's VideoFX tool restrict Veo 2's output to 720p and 8 seconds.

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Cohere, a leading AI startup and creator of enterprise AI solutions, has partnered with Palantir. Cohere's models are currently in use by various Palantir customers, as revealed in a Palantir presentation at DevCon1 in November 2024. This partnership follows Anthropic's deal with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers.

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Tesla is offering free Supercharging for life with new Model S purchases, in an attempt to boost sales. This offer comes after a $5,000 price increase for the Model S, which now starts at $79,990 for the all-wheel drive version and $94,990 for the Plaid version. Demand for the Model S has been decreasing, with estimated sales of around 12,000 to 13,000 in Q2, down year-over-year.

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Colin Angle, co-founder of iRobot, is raising $30 million for his new home robotics startup, Familiar Machines & Magic, which aims to develop a home robot focused on health and wellness.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Search is now available to all users, offering AI-powered web search results with summaries, images, and videos.

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YouTube is introducing a new feature that allows creators to choose which third-party AI companies can use their content for training AI models.

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Google Labs is testing a new image generator called Whisk, which allows users to remix images by altering the subject, scene, and style using Imagen 3, Google's image-generation model. Users can input images or text prompts to generate a detailed caption and create a new image.

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