At SIGGRAPH 2025, Lightcraft Technology, best known for its smartphone-based virtual production tool, Jetset, pulled the wraps off a new tool for filmmakers, Spark, a collaborative, browser-based production platform designed to help small teams make movies with the sophistication of a major studio. The company was founded in 2004 by engineer and designer Eliot Mack,…
Vigil’s founder and CEO, Kole Lee, dropped out of Stanford to start what may become the world’s largest hedge fund, powered by real time data from proprietary sources, and a reasoning system specifically trained to advise and augment human traders. His first customer is himself. Lee is literally betting his fortune on his startup. Calder…
Welcome back to The Prompt. Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak onstage at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit on October 6, 2015 in San Francisco, California, back when they were still friends. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair) Two of the most prominent names in AI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk have…
Fertility rates have declined globally over the past decade. getty This month alone, two large innovation giants have launched massive new initiatives in the pregnancy and fertility spaces, respectively. The first announcement was by smart-ring maker Oura, which announced that the newest generation of its hardware will now be able to support the company’s newly…
Topline Intel’s stock surged in the final hour of trading Thursday, after a Bloomberg report said the Trump administration is considering a stake in the tech giant just days after Trump met with chief executive Lip-Bu Tan, after previously calling for his ouster. Intel shares closed up over 7% Thursday. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)….
Hidden Door, a New York–based startup founded by Hilary Mason and Matt Brandwein, is building a platform for fans to create and share interactive stories inside licensed fictional worlds. The company raised a $2 million pre-seed round in 2022 led by Makers Fund, with participation from Northzone, Betaworks, and others, including Roblox CTO Dan Sturman….
Anthropic AI logo. NurPhoto via Getty Images AI legal developments are occurring at breakneck speed, so this article provides a brief update on AI legal developments so far in 2025. Right of Publicity California. Effective as of January 1, 2025, California prohibits contracts that purport to permit the creation of digital replicas of a person…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks at a session with Open AI CEO Sam Altman during an event called Transforming Business through AI in Tokyo in February. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son reclaimed the crown as Japan’s richest person after a four-year gap, with shares of his Tokyo-listed investment conglomerate surging over 60%…
Pika Labs introduced its new artificial intelligence (AI) social iOS app on Monday. Dubbed Pika Social AI Video, the app enables users to take a selfie and then convert it into an AI-generated short video using platform-integrated models. Once a video has been created, users can also share it with others via a social feed….
Anthropic is adding a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its Claude chatbot. On Monday, the San Francisco-based AI firm announced a new feature that will enable Claude to recall and reference previous conversations with the user. With this, users can pick up a conversation from where they left off. This can potentially save users…