From Early Adopters To Laggards Comes The Inevitable Rise Of Purpose-Built AI Chatbots For Mental Health

Purpose-built AI for mental health has a great future, but only if well-managed and smartly devised. Diffusion of innovation arises. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round

QyTw0, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million (approximately $380 million) after raising a €25 million angel round ($29 million). It’s a sign of enduring tailwinds for AI, quantum computing, and…

Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant

Wonder wants to turn its robotic kitchens into AI-powered “restaurant factories,” letting anyone spin up a virtual food brand with a prompt.

Your ChatGPT history is a personality test you didn’t know you were taking

ETH Zurich researchers collected 62,090 real ChatGPT conversations from 668 users and trained an AI to predict personality traits from them. The results are a privacy wake-up call.

The AI Abundance Dream Sounds Amazing, But Who Really Benefits?

AI could make goods and services cheaper than ever, raising hopes for a new age of abundance where scarcity plays a smaller role in human life.

SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw

SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers’ agents use to a select few like Nvidia’s NemoClaw.

Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.

Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests
Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home assistant’s ability to interpret and act on requests. The upgrade will also make Gemini for Home better […]

Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would apply to people in the US who purchased all models of the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 15 Pro between June 10th, 2024 and […]

Apple plans to make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI models

With Apple’s latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a host of tasks.