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Experiential Labs, a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, open-sourced World Model Optimizer, a model router that learns from an AI agent's production traces to route requests to cheaper models, aim…
Chinese AI company Z.ai has confirmed that the anonymous 'Ox Alpha' model that topped OpenRouter's popularity charts last week is its new GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-weight model now available across official platforms and on…
Artisan, a San Francisco-based AI sales startup, spent $2 million on billboards in San Francisco and New York reading 'Stop hiring humans' to promote its AI sales assistant Ava, but retired the slogan in August 2026 and …
Hemut, a Y Combinator Spring 2025 company, has launched an AI-native operating system for trucking carriers and brokers, combining ERP and TMS to automate back-office work and enable real-time fleet monitoring, with a lo…
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics have unveiled Microduck, a $399 waddling robot toy with a camera eye, beak grabber, and motion sensors, available for preorder with delivery by end of year in North America, the UK, and E…
OpenGradient, a decentralized AI compute network, achieved a perfect 'Complete' status with zero gaps in its B-1 Token Transparency Filing under Blockworks' Token Transparency Framework, published on August 18, 2026 and …
Echo Software Ltd., a startup using AI agents to secure container images, announced it is acquiring the assets of Minimus Inc. following the company's wind-down. The acquisition will expand Echo's support across Linux di…
Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw in an hour on a rainy November night to fix a personal annoyance, and 8 months later it hit 4.7 million downloads in a single week, nearly leading him to delete the project. In a live tal…
NVIDIA reported $96.2 billion in revenue for fiscal Q2 2027, up 106% year-over-year, with net income of $59.7 billion and data center revenue of $89 billion, up 117%, undercutting speculation about a near-term default. T…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) advises AI application companies to avoid pricing per token and instead price at the highest layer of value they can measure, such as credits for completed work or outcomes, citing a survey of …
OpenAI president Greg Brockman has consolidated power as the company's day-to-day operational leader, overseeing consumer and enterprise product teams including ChatGPT and Codex, amid a wave of executive departures. Thi…
Victory Foundations has appointed GoVoBo.ai CEO Mike Veronis to its Advisory Board, expanding a partnership focused on using accessibility technology to support individuals with disabilities.
Plaud, which has over 2.5 million users, launched Plaud One, AI note-taking earphones with an eSIM-enabled case that allows remote interaction with AI agents, priced with 300 free transcription minutes monthly and plans …
Tella (YC S20) has released Open Session, an open-source cloud-based agent orchestrator that allows teams to self-host and use any AI model, addressing frustrations with adaptability, cloud workflows, and pricing. The to…
Pangram Labs, co-founded by CEO Max Spero, claims its AI-powered models can detect AI-generated writing with over 99.5% accuracy in internal tests, distinguishing between human- and AI-written segments. The company, whic…
Sanmi Koyejo, co-founder of AI security startup Virtue AI, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI. Meta hired Koyejo and co-founders Dawn Song and Bo Li in June to join its Superintelligence Labs,…
Yann LeCun, founder of Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, has launched Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, which raised $1.03 billion in seed funding by March, one of the largest rounds in history. LeCun, a Turin…
Mira Murati, founder of Thinking Machines Lab and former OpenAI executive, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2025. Her startup, which raised $2 billion in the largest seed-funding round i…
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI for his efforts to keep AI research open. In 2024, he launched Laude Ventures, a $150 million fund, …
Adentris, a Y Combinator-backed startup (YC P25) building AI-powered compliance and revenue integrity infrastructure for behavioral health providers, is hiring a technical lead to own its platform end to end. The company…