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Pavel Durov says Telegram is now profitable Telegram founder Pavel Durov He said Monday that the company is now profitable. Durov said the chat app’s total revenue exceeded $1 billion in 2024. The company that launched it Premium subscription service in 2022It now has 12 million paid users. Durov also said that the app ended […]

xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is conducting a test Standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which has only been available to X users so far. The app, which is currently in Australia and a few countries in beta, can access real-time data

Trump says he wants to keep TikTok ‘for a little while’ With a TikTok ban in the United States expected to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he would like to keep the app. According to Reuters. “We’re going to have to start thinking because, you know, we

Elon Musk’s X raises Premium+ prices by 37.5% X is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service by 37.5%, marking the largest price increase since Elon Musk acquired the platform in 2022. Premium+ costs $22 per month in the US, Up from $16as of December 21, according to A Company statement. The cost of an

Palantir and Anduril have reportedly built a technology consortium to bid on defense contracts Two major players in defense technology, Palantir and Anduril, are talking with technology companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts, according to Report in the Financial Times. The Financial Times says

Sriram Krishnan has been named a senior advisor to Trump’s AI policies Incoming President Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, who until recently was a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will serve as a senior advisor for artificial intelligence policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Trump said

OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to “think” about their safety policy OpenAI announced a A new family of AI inference models on Friday, O3which the startup claims is more advanced than o1 or anything else it has released. These improvements appear to have come from expanding the scope of the test time calculation, Something we

Apple may be working on a smart doorbell There have been a lot of reports in recent months about Apple’s efforts to expand its presence in customers’ homes with products in development such as Wall-mounted smart home hub. according to New report in BloombergThis strategy could also include a smart doorbell. This doorbell will use

Here’s the full list of 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024 For some, AI fatigue is real. But clearly venture investors haven’t grown tired of the category. AI deals continued to dominate venture funding during the third quarter. AI companies raised $19 billion in Q3, according to Crunchbase data.

Google is expanding Gemini’s in-depth search mode to 40 languages Google said Friday that the company is expanding Gemini’s latest in-depth search mode to include 40 more languages. The company launched In-depth research method earlier this month, allowing users of Google’s One AI premium plan to unlock an AI-powered search assistant of sorts. The in-depth