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AI-powered fintech Alaan raises $48M, one of the largest Series A rounds in MENA
When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate expenses were rarely accepted in the Middle...
US adds OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to list of approved AI vendors for federal agencies
The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Awards Schedule (MAS), which would let government agencies access AI tool sellers with pre-negotiated...
I Tested Candy AI Unfiltered Chat for 1 Month
ai offers a bespoke NSFW chatbot platform centered on building intimate digital companionship. Here, your conversations don’t just flirt—they escalate into more explicit realms through roleplay, voice, and custom visuals....
ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers
ChatGPT reaches 700 million weekly users as OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 with integrated reasoning capabilities in August 2025.
OpenAI returns to open source roots with new models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b
Enterprises can use a powerful, near topline OpenAI LLM on their hardware totally privately and securely, without sending data to the cloud.
Anthropic’s new Claude 4.1 dominates coding tests days before GPT-5 arrives
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4. 5% on coding benchmarks, leading the AI market, but faces risk as nearly half its $3. 1B API revenue depends on just two customers.
OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models
OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. These new “gpt-oss” models are available in two different sizes and score similarly to the company’s o3-mini...
The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation: Here’s what it is
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described as “the world's first comprehensive AI law” by the European Commission.
Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it
In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple matter.
OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models
For the first time in more than five years, OpenAI is launching a new open language model that appears to be state of the art.