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Nous Research co-founder Ryan "Teknium" Teknium announced Wednesday that Hermes Agent voice chats now stream speech from most API-based text-to-speech backends, reducing perceived delay by starting audio playback before …
Nitzan Shapira and Ran Ribenzaft, who sold Epsagon to Cisco for roughly $500 million, raised a $34 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners for Harmony, an AI agent platform that operates inside Slack and Mi…
Coursera announced a $100 million investment in LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup founded by its chairman and co-founder Andrew Ng, giving Coursera roughly one-third equity and a commercial partnership to pair L…
Semiconductor stocks are sliding across US and Asian markets as investors shift from the AI hype cycle to demanding proof of returns on massive capital expenditures. Big Tech is spending billions on Nvidia H100s and B200…
NVIDIA committed $5 billion to Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a startup with no products or published papers, in exchange for access to its research and a partnership on future compute platforms. SSI will use the fun…
Singapore-based startup Antomation has developed an AI-powered automated baggage loading system called Cargo Cobra that aims to speed up the job by 20% and eliminate the need for human baggage handlers to work inside air…
Wilson Asset Management (WAM) has cornerstoned SCX.ai's $40 million IPO, with Ellerston Capital and other institutional investors also participating, ahead of the offer's close on Wednesday. SCX.ai will become Australia'…
Act Security emerged from stealth on July 28, 2026, with $60 million in total funding and launched an action-centric cloud security platform designed to prevent AI agents from inheriting dangerous cloud permissions. The …
DDH, a Korean dental AI startup, has developed Pano, an AI tool that analyzes panoramic X-rays and uses color coding to highlight potential dental issues, aiming to bridge the trust gap between patients and dentists. Fou…
Andrew Ng launched LearnVector on July 28 with a $100 million strategic investment from Coursera, which values the AI-native learning company at about $300 million. LearnVector is building an AI learning guide that plans…
Jack Ma-backed OceanBase is seeking to raise 2 billion to 3 billion yuan ($295 million to $443 million) in series A funding to expand into AI database services, according to people familiar with the matter. The Beijing-b…
Andrew Ng launched LearnVector, an AI company focused on one-to-one learning experiences, with a $100 million investment from Coursera. The company aims to replace one-size-fits-all courses with personalized AI guides th…
AutoClaw, a new desktop AI assistant, combines office automation, browser automation, and IM workflows into one app, allowing users to generate documents, analyze data, manage social media content, and automate browser t…
Meta Platforms Inc. announced plans to build a $14 billion artificial intelligence data center campus in El Paso, Texas, in collaboration with BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager. The two companies expect t…
The marginal cost of AI inference will approach zero as open models rival frontier models, reshaping the business models of labs like OpenAI and Anthropic toward low-margin inference sales, according to analyst Corey Qui…
Chinese institutions are urging Beijing to take the lead in setting global AI rules, citing a governance vacuum exposed by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, which sparked a policy debate in the US. The open-weight model, near…
OpenAI's first hardware device is a portable, screenless AI smart speaker co-developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, expected in early 2027 at a price between $200 and $300. The company is also fast-tracking a…
WisGate's unified API platform offers startups access to top-tier image, video, and coding AI models at prices 20% to 50% below official rates, reducing upfront risk with flexible trial credits and minimal credit-card ba…
Apple Inc. reached a $5 trillion market capitalization milestone as investors rotate away from AI pure-play stocks, reflecting a market shift from AI training to inference and deployment. The move toward edge AI and loca…
Data security company Cyera signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion in a deal expected to be paid mostly in cash, with the remainder in Cyera shares. The acquisition aims to safeg…