Cal AI, a nutrition app, generated over $30 million in revenue over two years before being acquired by MyFitnessPal in March. The company's rapid growth was fueled by a strategy of paying influencers to promote the app, which drove its viral success across social platforms. Source
Meta and Apple have partnered to launch Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model that runs locally on Apple silicon. The model will operate on Mac devices, allowing users to run the system without sending data to external servers. Source
Amazon-owned Bee has released two new personal AI devices, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones, with prices starting at $74.99. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping. Source
Anthropic has granted METR, a frontier AI safety research organisation, employee-level access to its systems and waived the right to block publication of the group's assessments. METR will publish its own findings on Anthropic's risks, incidents, and practices. Source
An OpenAI engineer who was fired after being charged with planting a hidden device had previously advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia and was listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince. The employee's undisclosed ties to foreign government clients have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest. Source