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Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, stepped down citing health issues, then rejoined OpenAI to lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research, including recursive self-improvement. OpenAI confi…
SalesPatriot (YC W25), an AI-native supply-chain platform for aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense sectors, is hiring Field Deployment Engineers (FDEs) to work onsite with customers and at its San Francisco HQ…
Elio, a sensor startup founded by former Meta AR/VR engineers Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, raised $21 million in Series A funding co-led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora, with participation from Kevin Weil and Scri…
Runlayer sued Rippling on July 28, alleging that a customer evaluation gave Rippling access to its complete application source code and other confidential systems before Rippling developed a competing gateway for AI agen…
Tokenless, a Y Combinator S26 startup, launched an API gateway that dynamically routes agent requests turn-by-turn between different models to reduce AI token consumption costs at scale, according to its website.
Eliyan, a Santa Clara semiconductor startup founded by serial entrepreneur Ramin Farjadrad, has raised $145 million at a $1 billion valuation to ease data bottlenecks in AI chips, Reuters reported on July 29th. The fundi…
Circular AI deals, where LLM providers invest in AI apps that then spend the money on the provider's tokens, create artificial revenue that masks the true cost of intelligence and distorts valuations, according to an ana…
Speko launched on July 29th as a benchmark-based router for voice AI models, giving developers a single gateway that selects speech and language models using continuously updated benchmarks. Founder Beknazar "Bek" Abdika…
Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and now leading Meta's superintelligence lab, spoke at Startup School 2026 about rebuilding a frontier lab from scratch, emphasizing talent density and the importance of developing an i…
SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 on July 29th, a speech-to-speech model priced at $0.08 per minute of audio, a 60% increase from the $0.05 rate for Think Fast 1.0. The model, available via API and Voice Agent …
The Cerebral Valley AI Summit will return to San Francisco on Thursday, Nov. 12, featuring speakers Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks; and Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks. The invite-o…
Encore AI has raised a $30 million Series A led by Team8, with participation from Planven, Lukatz, Garage, and unnamed banks and insurers, to build AI agents that learn from enterprise customer conversations and sales ta…
XAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 on July 29, an upgraded real-time voice AI model with improved transcription accuracy and conversational intelligence, targeting enterprise use cases such as customer support automa…
Meta reported Q2 revenue of $60.8 billion, up 28% year over year, but its shares fell in after-hours trading after the company issued a weaker-than-expected Q3 revenue outlook and disclosed rising costs from AI infrastru…
Anthropic and OpenAI are on track to generate a combined $120 billion in annual revenue, surpassing the projected $66.8 billion of Starbucks and McDonald's combined, according to data from AI investment research platform…
Onton co-founders Zach Hudson and Alex Gunnarson announced Ontology 1 on July 29th, claiming the AI model is at least 2.7 times more accurate than leading e-commerce search engines, though they did not identify competito…
A Hacker News user argues that massive money printing will sustain double-digit trillion-dollar valuations for AI and big tech, warning that most tech professionals fail to grasp this reality. The post challenges readers…
Cambridge startup Qureight has raised $20m in Series B funding led by Molten Ventures to build a 'foundation model' for the chest that can speed drug trials by generating disease-specific AI imaging models in one to two …
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, is returning to OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement research, a day after announcing her departure from the startup due to health reasons, according to a report …
Lilian Weng, a cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab who stepped down this week citing health concerns from the startup's pace, is rejoining OpenAI to lead a team focused on accelerating internal research for recursive self…