NewCore, an identity security startup co-founded by Zohar Alon, Amihai Neiderman, and Erez Yarkoni, emerged from stealth on June 15 with $66 million in seed funding to secure a workforce that includes…
Google launched information agents in AI Mode for AI Ultra subscribers, with expansion to AI Pro planned for summer 2026. The agents monitor blogs, news, social media, shopping, finance, and sports fe…
Mistral, the French AI lab, is reportedly raising €3 billion at a valuation of around €20 billion, nearly double its previous €11.7 billion valuation. The funding signals market confidence in open-wei…
DuckDuckGo hit an all-time traffic high and saw a 30% surge in U.S. app installs after Google replaced traditional search results with AI Overviews by default at its May I/O conference. The privacy-fo…
Visa invested in Replit to power agentic payments for developers, signaling that autonomous agents are about to move real money. A pattern is emerging for an agent payment stack, with competing author…
A developer outlines a claim verification pipeline to prevent AI hallucinations from reaching customers. The architecture splits AI-generated answers into structured claim objects, each with risk leve…
Google has sued an alleged Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise that used AI-powered phishing kits to send scam text messages, renting the tooling for $88 per week. The group sent 2…
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang urged startups to focus on lowering the cost of living as AI compresses wages and eliminates entry-level jobs. Yang cited his own company, Noble Mobile, which…
Andrew Yang says the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living, not building AI, as AI compresses wages and eliminates jobs. His mobile carrier Noble Mobile gives customers money bac…
A developer built E_MediaScience, an earned media operating system that uses Octoparse MCP as a live intelligence agent to discover and match journalists to PR pitches. The system calls Octoparse MCP …
Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents on Thursday, allowing users to delegate trading, payments, and financial workflows to AI agents within user-set limits. The product supports crypto spot and deriv…
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI are among the companies in the new "MANGOS" acronym poised to go public this summer, replacing the FAANG era. The cluster of high-profile IPOs will test investor appetite…
DoorDash launched Ask DoorDash, an AI chatbot that lets users place orders by typing plain-language requests or submitting photos of dishes, replacing the traditional multi-step browsing process. The …
President Donald Trump said he will meet with top AI executives to discuss "giving back" to the public, with ongoing talks between the White House and OpenAI about donating equity to seed a Public Wea…
Equal AI raised $30 million in a Series B round co-led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital, bringing the company's total funding to more than $42 million. The voice assistant startup's Android …
Deezer launched a free online AI Music Detector that scans user playlists from 20 streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music, to identify AI-generated tracks. The company reported that AI …
OpenAI submitted a confidential S-1 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a potential initial public offering, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in a concentrated wave of high-profile l…
Keshav Reddy's Equal AI secured $30 million in Series B funding to develop an AI call assistant for Indian consumers. The startup, founded in 2022, initially focused on data sharing for financial serv…
AI robotics startup Theker has raised $85 million in a Series A funding round, led by CRV and backed by Samsung and Aglaé Ventures, to build reconfigurable factory robots designed for multiple tasks r…
Google reduced the price of its Google AI Plus subscription from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and doubled included storage to 400GB. OpenAI is considering significant consumer price reductions, while Meta…