Bespoke Labs, a Mountain View startup building simulated environments to train and test AI agents, raised $40 million in a Series A and seed round led by Wing VC and 8VC, with backing from executives …
Vercel released a file-first framework for durable AI agents, Netflix now generates its entire homepage with a single model serving content 20% faster than its previous pipeline, and a fast-growing Gi…
Dhravya Shah raised approximately $3 million in seed funding for Supermemory, a startup building a universal memory API for AI applications. The round was led by Susa Ventures, Browder Capital, and SF…
An unconfirmed leak claims OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release has slipped to mid-July, while Google DeepMind is holding Gemini 3.5 Pro past its June launch window due to quality concerns. The alleged delays, if…
A developer launched Baserates.dev, a spaced repetition app that teaches programmers latency numbers and napkin math, inspired by Jeff Dean's famous list and Simon Eskildsen's talk. The app includes C…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and a key architect behind Google's Gemini models, has left Google to join OpenAI as Lead for AI Architecture Research. Google …
Architect Labs, a Palo Alto startup, emerged from stealth with a $24 million seed round to develop an AI system that designs and verifies custom chips end-to-end. The company aims to democratize chip …
Odyssey raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital with participation from Amazon, GV, AMD Ventures, and others, to accelerate development of AI world…
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD invested $310 million in AI startup Odyssey ML, which develops 3D world models, valuing the company at $1.45 billion. The funding round also included CIA-linked fund IQT and Go…
Emerald AI, a Virginia-based startup backed by NVIDIA, tested its Conductor software in Phoenix and the UK, claiming it can reduce data center power consumption by up to 40% during peak grid stress wi…
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash, a hybrid model that balances speed and cost for agentic tasks, outperforming previous models on benchmarks like Terminal-Bench and MCP Atlas while running up to 12x f…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, a UW Ph.D. alumnus, told University of Washington computer science graduates on June 12, 2026, that AI is an incubator for ideas, not a substitute for human ingenuity…
At the Google I/O 2026 Dialogues stage, Google leaders, scientists, and creatives discussed key technological breakthroughs, including AI agents, quantum computing, and robotics. Highlights featured C…
Impact of AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent developed by Google DeepMind, which has graduated from pilot testing to become a core infrastructure tool. It has optimized the design of next-gene…
Google signed a classified deal Monday allowing the Pentagon to use its AI models for "any lawful governmental purpose," surprising its own researchers who had been assured by senior management that t…