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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
Ollama, the open source tool that lets developers run open-weight AI models locally on their own machines, has raised a $65 million Series B round led by Theory Ventures. The funding, which follows a $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton and brings total investment to $88 million, underscores growing investor appetite for…
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AI Platform Character.ai Introduces Suite of Microseries Focused on Anime, Horror, Action Adventure: ‘Deeper Connection Between Fans and Characters’
Character.ai, the platform known for letting users create and chat with AI-generated characters, has launched “c.ai Series”, a collection of short AI-made microseries built around characters native to its platform. What sets the format apart, the company says, is that the experience does not end when an episode finishes: users aged over 18 can continue…
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Character.ai’s New Business? Microdramas
Character.ai, the chatbot company founded by former Google engineers, is launching a microdrama division, marking a notable diversification for a firm best known for its AI companion chatbots. The company will announce on Thursday that it has created AI-generated animated vertical-video series, penned by hired Hollywood writers but produced using artificial intelligence rather than traditional…
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Deltarune Chapter 5 Update Arrives On Switch 1 & 2 Soon, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Toby Fox and his team have released a new patch, version 0.0.247, for Deltarune Chapter 5, which launched on Switch 1 and 2 late last month. The update is already available on Steam and PlayStation, but Switch players will have to wait a little longer, as Fox confirmed on Bluesky that it has been submitted…
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FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer
Image Line has released FL Studio 2026, a free upgrade to its music production software, headlined by a significant expansion of its AI chatbot, Gopher. Whereas Gopher previously functioned as little more than an interactive instruction manual that pointed users to relevant help topics, it can now carry out actions directly within a project. The…
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WIRED World Fair
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MPs urge Labour to ditch £330m Palantir software contract with NHS
A second parliamentary body, the Commons health and social care select committee, has called on the Labour government to scrap Palantir’s £330m contract to run the NHS’s federated data platform (FDP), which unifies and analyses highly sensitive patient data. The cross-party group cited “serious mistrust” of the system among the public and medical profession, contested…
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Invest in Britain or I’ll force you to, minister tells pension funds
The business secretary, Peter Kyle, has publicly urged UK pension funds to “get off their high horses” and invest more in British companies, warning that the government will legislate to force them if they do not. Expressing frustration that successive government reforms have failed to lift domestic investment, Kyle argued that the country’s largest asset…
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Manhattan building developer says collapse fears were overblown, calls buckling columns ‘localized situation’
The developer behind a Manhattan high-rise that was hastily evacuated over collapse fears has said the danger was exaggerated, describing the structural damage as a “localized situation” that never threatened the building. MetroLoft, the firm converting the 235 East 42nd Street tower into luxury apartments, said it had worked with New York City’s Department of…