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Nearly half of US singles view AI in dating negatively, Match Group survey finds

June 20, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Nearly half of U.S. singles have a negative view of artificial intelligence being used in romantic contexts, according to a new survey from Match Group, the parent company of Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid. The survey of 1,000 people aged 18 to 39 found that 47% of respondents hold a negative opinion of AI in dating, […]

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AWS signals it may sell its Trainium AI chips directly to third parties, challenging Nvidia

June 20, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Amazon Web Services is exploring direct sales of its custom Trainium AI chips to third-party companies, a move that would intensify competition with Nvidia in the $200 billion-plus market for artificial intelligence hardware. AWS chief Peter DeSantis told Bloomberg the cloud giant is in early-stage talks with potential buyers, though he declined to name specific […]

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AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B at $13B valuation months after last mega round

June 19, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly on the verge of closing a massive $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The new round comes just five months after the company announced a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation, and nine months […]

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OpenAI adds DeepMind AI pioneer Noam Shazeer and ex-White House policy official Dean Ball ahead of IPO

June 19, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenAI is bolstering its ranks with two high-profile hires as the company moves closer to its initial public offering: Noam Shazeer, a co-lead at Google DeepMind and co-founder of Character AI, and Dean Ball, a former White House AI policy official under President Donald Trump. OpenAI has hired Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the foundational […]

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Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join Frontier’s $915M carbon removal push

June 18, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude language model, has become the first pure artificial intelligence startup to join Frontier, a carbon removal collective that announced a new $915 million tranche of funding on Tuesday. The pledge brings Frontier’s total commitments to $1.8 billion, nearly doubling its previous fundraising. Anthropic has joined Frontier, a carbon […]

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Android 17 arrives with bubble bar multitasking and deeper Gemini AI integration

June 17, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Google released the final version of Android 17 on Tuesday, alongside Wear OS 7, marking the company’s latest push to embed artificial intelligence deeper into its mobile and wearable operating systems. The update arrives first on Google’s own Pixel devices and is bundled with a Pixel Drop that introduces support for several new AI models, […]

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Consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, WordPress VIP survey finds

June 17, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say brands that use the term “AI” in their messaging turn them off, and 86% do not fully trust AI-generated answers, according to a new survey from WordPress VIP, the enterprise publishing platform owned by Automattic. The findings, based on a survey of 2,000 respondents conducted in April 2025, underscore […]

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June 16, 2026 PlayNewsWire

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Meta rolls out AI Mode on Facebook, pulling answers from public posts and groups

June 16, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Meta announced Monday it is rolling out a new feature called AI Mode on Facebook, which uses the company’s Meta AI assistant to generate answers drawn from public posts, Groups, and Reels. The move is part of a broader push to integrate generative AI across its platforms and increase user engagement with its chatbot. Instead […]

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Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234M funding led by HCLTech

June 16, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup Sarvam has raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, the company announced Monday, making it India’s newest AI unicorn. The round is led by HCLTech, the IT subsidiary of Indian conglomerate HCL Group, which is contributing $150 million as the lead strategic investor. Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the […]