Poet and former Google product marketer Tucker Bryant has placed a San Francisco billboard advertising ChatTJB, a parody LLM-style chat interface powered entirely by Bryant himself, who manually answe…
OpenAI published employee messages and legal correspondence on August 3rd to contest Apple's trade-secret lawsuit, arguing that former Apple engineer Chang Liu's continued access to Apple files was pa…
MVNT, a Seoul-based dance AI startup co-founded by CEO Joon Jung and choreographer Choi Youngjun, is seeking $10 million in a pre-Series A round, as reported by Business Insider on August 4. The compa…
Applied Compute added native on-policy self-distillation (OPSD) and relevance-masked self-distillation (RMSD) workflows to its AC2 platform, enabling enterprise AI teams to convert production traces a…
Numerai founder and CEO Richard Craib is assembling a new team to apply frontier AI across the hedge fund's internal research and risk systems, aiming to create a 'self-improving hedge fund.' Craib an…
Kevin Rose released Reflection Engine v1.3, a free prompt that asks an AI assistant to mine its memory of a user for blind spots, contradictions, emotional habits and likely trajectories, distributed …
Auterion is equipping 50,000 Ukrainian-made SkyFall Shrike strike drones with its terminal-guidance system under a German-funded order worth about $103 million (90 million euros), with deliveries begi…
MiniMax, founded by Yan Junjie, launched its open-weight H3 video-generation model on July 31 and claims it is the highest-ranked open-weight video model on both Arena and Artificial Analysis. However…
Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.20.0 on August 3rd, adding streaming conversational voice, on-device wake words, and a standard protocol for communicating with other AI agents. The release, sign…
Cicero, Inc., the legal entity behind AI sales-coaching platform Othello, disclosed a $6.85 million equity round from 35 investors in a Form D filed with the SEC on August 3rd, with CEO Jared Zelman s…
Procore will acquire DroneDeploy for approximately $845 million in cash, a deal announced on July 29th and expected to close in 2026, giving the construction software provider control of drones, robot…
Emerald AI founder and CEO Varun Sivaram disclosed $90,229,639 sold toward a planned $150,000,000 equity offering in a Form D filed August 3, 2026, leaving $59,770,361 to sell. The filing lists Sivara…
ChronicleBio co-founder Fidji Simo said on August 3rd that AI's potential to cure complex chronic conditions depends on collecting deep biological data from patients over time, a resource the company …
Exa CEO Will Bryk said on August 3rd that Exa's index now serves 80 billion pages and tracks 1.4 trillion URLs, nearly triple the 500 billion URLs reported in May, with expectations to reach "Google-s…
Google Cloud added immutable revisions and percentage-based traffic splitting to Agent Runtime by July 6th, enabling developers to release new agent code without replacing the running engine, resource…
OpenAI engineers Justin Uberti and Zahan Malkani detailed on August 3rd a six-month rebuild of ChatGPT's voice infrastructure that enables GPT-Live to listen and speak simultaneously, with other model…
Buildbox, a two-person San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, launched on August 3rd an analytics layer that detects AI agent failures invisible in standard evaluations and traces,…
Higgsfield AI, led by co-founders Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, announced a $1 million global competition for AI-generated short films on August 3rd, with the first-place winner receiving $500,000,…
Intelligence, the San Francisco-based maker of DesignArena, raised a $7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures, according to co-founder and CEO Grace Li. The startup, which uses human rankings fro…
Gradio, a Hugging Face-owned framework, awarded $10,000 in OpenAI Codex prizes to three small-model apps in its Build Small hackathon, with Tiny Narrator winning $5,000 for an accessibility tool that …