Encore AI has raised a $30 million Series A led by Team8, with participation from Planven, Lukatz, Garage, and unnamed banks and insurers, to build AI agents that learn from enterprise customer conver…
Google Cloud revenue surged 63% year over year to $20.03 billion in Q1 2026, outpacing Microsoft Azure's 39% growth and Amazon Web Services' 28% growth, according to a chart by I/O Fund analyst Beth K…
Onton co-founders Zach Hudson and Alex Gunnarson announced Ontology 1 on July 29th, claiming the AI model is at least 2.7 times more accurate than leading e-commerce search engines, though they did no…
Perplexity open-sourced Numbat on July 29th, a Go binary that monitors and can block risky AI agents on employee computers, addressing security risks from agents that run commands and access credentia…
Replit launched Replit Design, an AI-powered creative suite that generates visual designs from prompts, screenshots, URLs, Figma imports, and design systems, aiming to keep users inside its app builde…
Henry AI, a New York-based startup, announced a $16.5 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital and launched Henry Deal, software for commercial real estate underwriting, comparable-property analysis,…
Polar Browser raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona to develop an AI browser that automates hours-long research, recruiting, sales and operations tasks inside users' existing web accounts. T…
Tether Data's QVAC research group released two 460M-parameter vision-language models, VisionPsy-Nano-460M and VisionPsy-Nano-460M-Flash, on July 29th, providing open weights and mobile inference code …
Waymo added Google's Gemini assistant and a redesigned three-screen interface to its Ojai autonomous vehicle platform on July 29th, moving its consumer AI into the cabin while keeping it separate from…
Tavus launched PAL Maker on July 29th, a no-code builder for its video-based AI agents called PALs (Personal Affective Links), allowing nontechnical users to create and deploy agents that see, hear, a…
Berlin-based startup telli raised a $15 million seed round led by redalpine to expand its AI agents from phone calls into customer service, sales and support across voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp and emai…
HeyGen launched Video Podcast on July 29th, turning a topic, URL or PDF into an edited show featuring two synthetic hosts with studio scenes, captions, B-roll and camera cuts. The product generates di…
Google Cloud will retire Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 Thinking model endpoint on October 21st, after deprecating it on July 21st as part of a broader endpoint retirement that includes models from DeepSeek, Z…
Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement research, using AI systems to help create better AI models, according to reporting by The Information on Wednesday. Weng left O…
Google shipped Lyria 3.5 to Flow Music on July 29th, adding direct BPM control and more expressive vocals to DeepMind's music generation model. The update produces richer arrangements and follows crea…
OpenAI opened applications Wednesday for free access to GPT-5.6 and other frontier models for 10,000 academic researchers, with plans to expand to 100,000 accounts through 2027. The program, called Ch…
Reve shipped a Chrome extension on Wednesday that lets users save images from the web directly into its AI creation and editing platform, turning the browser into an input layer for visual references.…
Martha Stewart, Yih-Han Ma and Kyle Rush launched Hint nationwide on July 29, a free iPhone app that uses AI to organize property records, maintenance schedules and home paperwork. Stewart owns equity…
Nous Research, the open-source AI lab co-founded by Ryan Teknium, added local wake-word activation to Hermes Agent on July 29th, allowing users to open a session and issue a spoken command without tou…
Obra launched Obra Hire on July 29th, a self-serve candidate sourcing platform that lets recruiters search over 800 million profiles to bypass application queues inflated by generative AI. Co-founder …