XDOF, a robotics data infrastructure startup founded by Philipp Wu, Fred Shentu, and Nemo Jin, emerged from stealth on June 17 with $70 million in funding from Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, and Andre…
OpenAI released LifeSciBench on June 17, a benchmark for life-science AI that evaluates applied research tasks like evidence interpretation and experiment design rather than simple recall. The benchma…
David Holz's Midjourney announced Midjourney Medical, a full-body ultrasound scanner that uses sound waves to create 3D body maps in under 60 seconds. The self-funded AI lab is moving from image gener…
In a head-to-head test of two video-generation models, Happy Horse defeated Bernini-R Edit Video with a score of 17.6 to 14.4, demonstrating superior precision in following detailed prompts. Happy Hor…
GPT Image 2 API defeated Bagel 26.9 to 14.3 in a head-to-head image generation test, consistently following prompts and preserving scene logic while Bagel produced occasional appealing fragments but f…
Odyssey, an AI lab founded by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, with Amazon participating and committing to AWS…
Greptile launched TREX, an execution layer for AI code review that runs pull request code and attaches artifacts like logs, screenshots, and videos to reviews. The startup, founded by Daksh Gupta, Soo…
Midjourney is revealing its first hardware project at a live event in San Francisco on June 17, 2025, with a livestream available for remote viewers. CEO David Holz, who previously co-founded Leap Mot…
Pramaana Labs, an AI startup founded by Ranjan Rajagopalan, raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to develop formal verification systems for large language models. The company targ…
Jack Hidary's SandboxAQ signed a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce for a $500 million CHIPS Research and Development award to use AI to discover semiconductor materials. The aw…
Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who initially warned colleagues in March that the company's next-generation AI model Mythos was too capable to release, has become central to Anthropic's argumen…
AGI House, the Hillsborough, California community founded by Rocky Yu in 2023, is shifting its programming toward AI agents and automation with a series of build events in San Francisco, including a J…
Qualcomm is reportedly in talks to acquire Tenstorrent, the AI chip startup led by chip architect Jim Keller, in a deal that could value the company at $8 billion to $10 billion. The discussions, repo…
In a head-to-head comparison, Wan v2.6 Image to Video scored 16.9 against AnimateDiff Turbo's 5.6, decisively winning on prompt fidelity, coherent motion, and scene construction across two video gener…
Leaked audited financial documents show OpenAI lost $38.53 billion in 2025, with $20.92 billion in operating losses despite $13.07 billion in revenue, as the company burns through cash on compute and …
Coinbase launched Coinbase Advisor, an AI-powered investment advisory tool for Coinbase One members that analyzes portfolios, generates trade recommendations, and automates tax-loss-harvesting prompts…
Nearly 150 security leaders signed an open letter urging the Trump administration to reverse restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, arguing the government turned a model-access dispu…
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the maker of AI coding tool Cursor, in a stock deal valuing the startup at $60 billion. The acquisition, disclosed in a regulatory filing, will make Anysphere a…
Subquadratic released the model card and technical report for SubQ 1.1 Small, a long-context model using Subquadratic Sparse Attention, on June 16. The company claims the model achieves 100% retrieval…
Genesis AI unveiled its first general-purpose robot, Eno, on June 16, rejecting the humanoid form in favor of a wheeled base and dexterous hands, betting that human-level manipulation does not require…