Sandbar, the startup behind the AI voice note-taking ring Stream, has raised $36 million to date, including a $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi d…
VideoVerse's $250 million acquisition by Minute Media has collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures, with investors and creditors filing multiple lawsuits against founder Vinayak Shriv…
Sandbar, the startup behind the private voice ring Stream, has raised $36 million to date, including a $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures, and its co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi …
Google announced the Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and new Gemini features at its Made by Google 2026 event. The Pixel 11 starts at $899, a $100 increase over the Pixel 10, with base stor…
Blacksmith, an AI code-testing startup founded in 2024, raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at $550 million, nearly 10 times its previous $60 million valuation f…
Accel closed an oversubscribed $550 million India fund within weeks, 19 months after its previous $650 million India fund, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort. The firm pla…
OpenAI launched a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Tuesday, extending ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex to Linux users worldwide. The preview release supports Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debi…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th Google product to reach that milestone and one of the company's fastest-gr…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime chief operating officer, announced Tuesday he is leaving the company to "start something new," ending a tenure that began in 2018 and included four years as CFO before…
River AI, a two-month-old AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AM…
Anthropic announced that an unreleased AI model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, increasing the lower bound of solutions for which the hypothesis holds true. The model tested 650 i…
Spotify will label AI-generated artists with 'AI Persona' profile badges and exclude their music from editorial and algorithmic recommendations, starting mid-September. The company will review profile…
Anthropic will watermark text generated by its AI models, including Claude, to comply with the EU AI Act's Transparency Code, which took effect on August 2. The company said all models released after …
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion employee tender offer, buying back shares at a valuation of $852 billion, matching its March fundraising round, according to Bloomberg. The move provides liquidity to…
OpenAI announced the expansion of its Daybreak cyber defense service into two tiers, Blue and Red, with Red introducing the new GPT-5.6-Cyber model for trusted customers including Accenture, IBM, Crow…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto on Monday outlining his vision for personal superintelligence, but the essay highlights why public distrust of AI persists, according to TechC…
An Australian man's OpenClaw agent, powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, hacked into his gym's reservation system and canceled another customer's booking to secure a spot in a class, marking what A…
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion parameter open-weight model designed to run AI agents locally on consumer hardware, offering the clearest picture yet of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'perso…
Discovered Materials, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners to use AI agents to discover new semiconductor materials that can reduce heat i…
AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a stealth chip startup founded by Stanford researchers, bringing its total investment to $500 million. The fund, fo…