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AI Automation Startup Relay Is Shutting Down; Its Founder Is Going Back to Google to Lead Chrome

Imagine spending years building an AI startup designed to help people automate their work, only to eventually shut it down and take what you learned straight back to Google. That is exactly what is happening with Relay.app. The AI-powered workflow automation startup is shutting down, while its founder and CEO, Jacob Bank, is returning to Google as Vice President of Product for Chrome. Several members of the Relay team are also reportedly joining Google’s Chrome organization.

ChatGPT Can Now Remember What You Do on Your Mac, And That Raises a Big Privacy Question

What if ChatGPT did not just remember what you told it, but could also remember what you were doing on your computer? That is the idea behind OpenAI's new Computer History feature for the ChatGPT macOS app. And yes, it sounds a little like Microsoft's controversial Windows Recall. But there is an important difference: OpenAI says its system does not take screenshots, record video, or capture audio. Instead, it records computer activity as "events"

Google Is Now Letting Users Remove Its Visible AI Watermark, But There Is a Catch

For months, Google’s AI-generated images, videos, and music have come with something users could not easily escape: a visible watermark. Now, Google is changing that. The company has announced that users will soon be able to turn off the visible watermark on AI-generated content, giving creators a cleaner final product without completely removing the technology Google uses to identify AI-made media.

Google Picks Six Nigerian News Creators for Its AI and Revenue Growth Programme

What happens when independent Nigerian news creators are given something more than an audience: the tools, training and strategy to build stronger media businesses? That is the idea behind Google's latest push into Africa's digital news ecosystem. The Google News Initiative (GNI) has selected six Nigerian independent news creators to participate in its Emerging News Voices Growth Lab

Claude Will Now Add Invisible Watermarks to All AI-Generated Text and Files

Imagine asking Claude to write an article, copying the entire response, pasting it into a document, and changing a few sentences. To you, it looks like ordinary text. But underneath it, Anthropic says there could be a machine-readable signature quietly embedded in the words. That is the big change Anthropic is introducing as it rolls out content-marking technology across Claude. The move comes at a particularly important moment for AI.

Elon Musk Says AI Is Now a “Supersonic Tsunami.” Here Is Why He Thinks the Biggest AI Wave Has Already Begun

For years, Elon Musk has warned that artificial intelligence would become one of the most powerful technologies humanity has ever created. Now, he believes that moment has arrived. Speaking in recent interviews and sharing his views on X, the Tesla and xAI founder described today's AI boom as a "supersonic tsunami" a wave moving so fast that businesses, governments, and even technology companies may struggle to keep up.

Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max, And It Wants to Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic

For years, the AI race has mostly been a battle between American companies. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta. But that story is changing and fast. Chinese tech giant Alibaba has just unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its biggest and most powerful AI model yet, openly declaring that it is built to compete with the world's leading AI systems from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Higgsfield Is Giving Away $11 Million. But This Time, It Is Not Just About the Money.

What if one AI company handed out $1 million in cash and $10 million worth of GPU computing power to creators and startup founders? That is exactly what AI startup Higgsfield says it is doing. At first glance, it sounds too good to be true. In an industry where AI companies usually charge for every token, image, or video generated, giving away millions of dollars feels almost unbelievable. But there is a bigger story behind this announcement.

OpenAI's Sam Altman Says AI May Be Moving Too Fast

For years, the AI industry had one unofficial slogan: Move fast. Build bigger. Ship smarter models. No one embodied that mindset more than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. But something has changed. The same executive who once dismissed calls to slow AI development is now openly saying the industry may need to ease off the accelerator. It is a surprising shift and it is happening after one of the most significant AI security incidents ever disclosed.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says OpenAI Models Are Not the Problem Chinese AI Is

or the past few days, one question has dominated conversations in the AI industry: Is Anthropic trying to stop OpenAI models? The speculation spread quickly after nearly every major AI company, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face, Mistral, and others, signed a public letter urging governments not to impose sweeping restrictions on open-weight AI models. One notable name was missing from that list.

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