‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone

Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, rela…

Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits
Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits

When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they’re accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them. On June 10th – one week after the hearing, and […]

General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.

A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight 

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5.  […]

Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants
Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants

Adobe’s plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now rolling out to its biggest editing and design apps. As part of a public beta launching today, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io now each have a bespoke AI Assistant that can be used […]

What Investors Are Telling Us About AI Governance — And Why CEOs Should Listen

Corporate leaders who assume unconditional support from investors for aggressive AI deployment may want to think again.

Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like
Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like

Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a “reimagined” AI studio that lets you edit and generate new designs from a single interface. The new Firefly experience launching today in private beta is designed to give you “persistent context, reusable assets, and organized workflows” across your projects, according to Adobe, […]

Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).

How Joshua Baer Helped Bring AI To The U.S. Army And Changed Austin

Joshua Baer built the human infrastructure behind AI. Three ways to create that legacy: make the introduction, back founders early, and build access into your company.