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Scaled Cognition raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures to build AI models that do not hallucinate. The startup's APT model is designed with reliability engineered into its architecture, targeting…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, known for his work on AI situational awareness, has identified a top AI pick-and-shovel stock for 2026. The recommendation highlights a company poised to benefit from the growing AI infrastructure …
Afrozy Ara, CEO of LuminaData, argues that the AI revolution faces a human coordination problem, not a technology one, as 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable profit-and-loss impact. Ara, whose backgrou…
HireTale launches a candidates tracking demo that upgrades Google Sheets for recruitment, offering free and paid plans starting at $0 for freelancers. The tool has over 1,000 installs and requires no training, enabling e…
Netris, a network automation startup, raised $15 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz to help AI neoclouds reduce the time to go live by automating data center setup, configuration, and operations. The co…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek plans to at least double its staff of roughly 170 after raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, one of the largest ever for a Chinese startup. The round, which values the com…
QuadSci won the 2026 Machine Learning Company of the Year award from AI Breakthrough for the second consecutive year, claiming 90% predictive accuracy for churn and growth events 9-18 months before renewal. The company h…
French insurtech Alan raised €480 million in a Series G round led by Prosus at a €5.5 billion valuation, just months after its previous round. The company plans to use the funds to expand its AI-driven prevention insuran…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is doubling its headcount across departments, including a new Harness team for agent products, as it shifts from a research-focused operation to a product company. The expansion aims to build a na…
A developer at Yogreet Global proposes dynamic model-routing thresholds to optimize costs and performance when escalating requests to frontier AI models. By analyzing request characteristics like token count and historic…
OpenAI released gpt-realtime-2 on May 7, offering speech-to-speech reasoning at $0.25-$0.35 per minute, which collapsed the AI voice wrapper layer by eliminating the need for stitching multiple vendors. Vapi raised $50M …
Coval, a voice AI evaluation platform, raised $28 million in Series A funding led by Norwest, with participation from Twilio Ventures and others, bringing total funding to $31 million. The company provides simulation, ob…
Investor Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “completely fumbled” its lead in artificial intelligence, arguing the company failed to capitalize on its data and distribution advantages to become the dominant open-weight AI lab…
Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs to integrate its on-device AI inference technology, NeuroStream, and Emmy-winning enhancement models into Creative Cloud, aiming to compete with Canva and Blackmagic Design. The deal, announ…
Chinese physical AI start-up Fysics AI launched Fysiverse, a physics-based world model that embeds real-world physical laws into its code, diverging from data-driven approaches used by OpenAI and Meta. Founded by former …
Micron Technology's fiscal third-quarter earnings validate market enthusiasm for AI demand, according to Franklin Templeton Global Investment Strategist Michael Browne, who said any 10% pullback in the stock would be a b…
Amol, a former CTO turned CEO, describes how AI eliminated the 'bullshit overhead' of tracking work across multiple tools at his startup, freeing him from counting 'geese'—a metaphor for tedious data synchronization task…
Nasdaq futures surged 2.24% on June 25 after Micron reported an earnings beat and issued an upbeat outlook, while Qualcomm set a $15 billion data-center revenue target by 2029, boosting chip stocks. Markets await the PCE…
Arca, an AI-powered wealth management platform founded by former Plaid product leader Rron Rexha, raised $64 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by Venrock and General Catalyst. The firm manages over $1 bil…
Blueshoe, an AI-native law firm founded by Casey O'Grady and Kai Yee Wan, launched as a full-stack consumer and plaintiff-side firm, not a legal AI tool. The Y Combinator-backed startup aims to rebuild the law firm aroun…