Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation to build AI systems that understand the physical world, arguing that current large language models cannot achieve human-level int…
Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told employees in an internal town hall that the company's unreleased model, codenamed Watermelon, has matched OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks, giving CEO Mark Zuckerber…
Dawnguard raised $3.3 million in pre-seed extension funding on July 1, bringing total funding to over $6.3 million, as the company launched its security architecture automation platform and opened a N…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Thursday that the company's AI agent development has moved slower than expected, a rare internal admission as Meta invests up to $145 billion in AI infrastructu…
Vincent van der Meulen reported that Claude Fable 5 generated over 60 ready-to-merge pull requests overnight when used as an orchestrator for autonomous coding agents, a claim that highlights a shift …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's refusal to allow its AI models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons led to a federal blacklist, two court fights, and the first export-control takedown of a commer…
Historian Yuval Noah Harari warned in a May 21 lecture at Oxford that AI will first seize power through bureaucracy, finance, law, and religion rather than through robots or armed conflict. He argued …
Straiker appointed Sriram Puthucode as chief revenue officer three days after announcing a $64 million Series A, tapping the former Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks executive to turn early AI-agent secu…
Emails between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael reveal that negotiations over military use of Claude broke down over Anthropic's demand to exclude mass domestic surv…
FIFA named ADI Predictstreet as the first official prediction-market partner for the 2026 World Cup, which will feature 48 teams across 16 host cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The tou…
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, bringing agentic capabilities like browser use, terminal work, and multi-step tool execution to its cheaper Sonnet tier and making it the default for Fre…
Twelve Labs, a video intelligence startup, raised $100 million in a Series B round co-led by NEA and Naver Ventures, with Amazon participating as both an investor and distribution partner. AWS signed …
MGX, an Abu Dhabi-backed AI investment platform, closed its MGX Fund I at $49 billion, exceeding its $45 billion target and creating one of the largest dedicated AI capital pools globally. The fund, l…
BMW Group announced that Figure AI's humanoid robot, Figure 02, supported production of over 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over ten months at Plant Spartanburg, marking a key operational milestone for humano…
Wayve CEO Alex Kendall launched an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation, allowing staff to sell shares to existing and new investors. The move aims to retain talent amid rapi…
ByteDance's Seedance V1.5 Pro Image to Video outperformed Wan v2.6 Image to Video in a head-to-head test, scoring 17.6 to 12.3. Seedance better preserved specific camera logic and prompt fidelity, whi…
Three former DeepMind researchers turned their poker AI into a quantitative trading firm, EquiLibre Technologies, now valued at over $500 million after a Series A led by Creandum. The company uses rei…
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to lift export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model tonight, according to a senior White House official. The controls were imposed three days after …
Fibo Bbq Preview defeated AuraFlow 23.9 to 19.8 in a head-to-head image generation test, winning on prompt adherence and precision. AuraFlow excelled in expressive, cinematic scenes but failed on tech…
Google has begun beta-testing Gmail Live, a Gemini-powered voice interface for Gmail that allows users to search their inbox using natural language instead of typed queries. The feature, announced at …