Figure AI's humanoid robot Figure 03 will begin a logistics sequencing job at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, moving parts from the body shop to final assembly. BMW's workforce has declined from a 2024 p…
Notion will shut down Notion Mail on September 22, 2025, pivoting from a standalone email inbox to an agent-driven email management system. The company cited that over half of users manage emails with…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff on June 24 that GPT 5.6 will first be released as a limited preview to a small group of partners because the federal government asked OpenAI to stagger the rollout, ac…
Cosmos 3 Super defeated AuraFlow 22.8 to 16.0 in a head-to-head image generation test, consistently outperforming on prompt fidelity for composition, setting, and action cues. AuraFlow lost points for…
Meta hired Dawn Song, Bo Li and Sanmi Koyejo, founders of AI security startup Virtue AI, to join its Superintelligence Labs. The move brings academic AI safety experts into Meta's core AI organization…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to train AI agents on action-labeled gameplay data from Medal. The round was led by Khosla Ventures with par…
Fal has added ByteDance's Seed Audio 1.0 to its hosted model gallery and API, enabling developers to generate audio from text, reference audio, or images through a single endpoint. The move positions …
Blueshoe, an AI-native law firm founded by Casey O'Grady and Kai Yee Wan, launched as a full-stack consumer and plaintiff-side firm, not a legal AI tool. The Y Combinator-backed startup aims to rebuil…
Probook, a New York startup using AI to automate dispatch for plumbing, HVAC and electrical contractors, raised $40 million in total funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The 24-year-o…
Qualcomm is acquiring Modular, the AI infrastructure startup founded by Chris Lattner and Tim Davis, for approximately $3.92 billion in stock. The deal, announced June 24, 2026, gives Qualcomm Modular…
OpenAI updated GPT-5.5 Instant on June 24, improving its ability to understand user intent, maintain context across conversation turns, follow multi-part constraints, and provide better shopping and l…
Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka launched Hang Ten Systems with a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, aiming to use AI to challenge the traditional IT services model by automati…
Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude AI model, generating over 28.8 million exchanges between …
In a head-to-head comparison of AI video models, Happy Horse 1.1 Image to Video defeated Bernini-R Edit Image with a score of 17.1 to 14.1, demonstrating superior prompt fidelity, spatial continuity, …
Coval, a San Francisco voice AI evaluation startup founded by former Waymo engineer Brooke Hopkins, raised a $28 million Series A led by Norwest to test voice AI systems with the same simulation-heavy…
Anthropic is preparing to restore access to its Claude Fable 5 model after pulling it earlier this month due to a US export-control directive. Evidence includes Fable-specific usage strings in the Cla…
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash narrowly defeated Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 in a head-to-head benchmark, scoring 35.4 to 34.8 across four tasks. Gemini won three of four tasks by demonstrating superior in…
Antonio Mallia's Seltz raised $12.5 million in seed funding to build web search infrastructure for AI agents, led by Speedinvest and B Capital. The startup aims to provide machine-oriented search that…
Meta is turning Facebook Creator Studio into a standalone AI companion app for creators, moving core creator workflows out of the dashboard into its own product. The app includes an AI-powered comment…
Greptile's analysis of OpenClaw, an open-source repository, reveals pull requests surged from two per week to 3,400 per week, while merge rates plummeted from 48% to below 9.3%, with one contributor s…