Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman launched Luffu Link, an LTE-enabled health and safety band priced at $250, available for preorder and expected to ship in early 2027. The device combine…
Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, launched Radar, a podcast search engine that transcribes and understands audio from over 130,000 podcasts, making it the larges…
Perceptron Inc., a startup founded by former Meta researchers Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight vision model designed to help robots perceive, reason, and act…
Bill Gates proposed a 'robot tax' and 'Human Reserved' jobs in a Gates Notes essay, arguing that taxing robots would slow the replacement of human workers and fund retraining, while reserving certain …
Z.ai, the Chinese AI lab behind the GLM series, confirmed that the mysterious open-weight model Ox Alpha, which topped OpenRouter benchmarks, is the newest iteration of its GLM series. The company wil…
Unitree, China's leading robot maker, lost nearly half of its market value after its IPO on China's NASDAQ equivalent, which had valued the company at $66 billion, as analysts cite robots' lack of kno…
QueryStory, co-founded by CEO Shapor Naghibzadeh, emerged from stealth with a $6 million seed round from Brightmind Ventures and New York Life Ventures at a $60 million valuation, offering a platform …
Arga, a startup building training environments for enterprise AI agents, announced Wednesday it raised $10 million in a seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence…
Legato, a hearing tech startup founded by Mehul Trivedi and Steve Romine, emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $12 million in funding and unveiled its AI hearing glasses, Legato Frames, which integr…
Runable, a Bengaluru-based startup founded in 2025, has raised $21 million in a Series A round co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, valuing the company at $65 million post…
Voice AI startup Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV Partners as an extension of its Series A, bringing the round's total to $15.5 million. The company, which processes 20 million call attempts …
Robotics startup Generalist is now valued at $3 billion after raising nearly $200 million in an extension of its Series B round, led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The …
OpenAI has lost Chris Malone, its former head of data centers, who left the company last week after less than a year and a half, according to the Wall Street Journal. Malone's departure adds to a stri…
Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding, bringing its total fundraising to $232 million. The round includes investments …
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it is merging the memory systems of Claude chat and Claude Cowork, allowing Claude to remember information across both experiences. Users can now view, edit, or del…
Gamma, a presentation startup backed by Accel and South Park Commons, has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica to establish a design research lab, with Lica's co-founders leading the effort. Lica…
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip outperformed Nvidia's Blackwell system on Semianalysis's InferenceX benchmark, delivering more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt, according to results p…
Accel-backed Keenable, founded by former Yandex search chief Andrey Styskin and AI scientist Matthias Petri, emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding to build a web search index of over 1…
OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux said the company is bringing the power of coding agents to everyone with ChatGPT Work, a platform for white-collar workers to leverage AI agents, launched as p…
The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund led by OpenAI alum Leopold Aschenbrenner, after a downturn in AI stocks erased billions in value at t…