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Microsoft is evaluating a range of open and open-weight models, beyond DeepSeek, for its Copilot Cowork agentic work app, aiming to enable flexible model swapping based on task type, cost, and latency. The move could red…
Sebastian Kurz, former Austrian chancellor, has built AI cybersecurity startup DREAM to a $3 billion valuation after a $260 million funding round. The company, co-founded with Shalev Hulio, uses AI to detect state-sponso…
SpaceX acquired Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding platform Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal announced June 16, positioning the newly public aerospace giant as a direct competitor to OpenAI and Anthropic i…
Yann LeCun, the 'godfather of AI' and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned of an AI bubble, citing high costs and talent issues. LeCun, who is selling an alternative AI approach, argued that A…
Seattle-based AI startup Gradial raised $65 million in Series C funding led by Insight Partners to deploy AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows. The company, whose clients include AWS, T-Mobile, and Vang…
Tenet Security emerged from stealth with $6 million in seed funding to address runtime security for autonomous AI agents. The round was led by The Westly Group with MizMaa Ventures participating. The company's Agent-side…
California anticipated a multibillion-dollar tax windfall from IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but modern compensation structures like single-trigger RSUs, tender offers, and loans-against-shares are reducing and …
Comand AI, a Paris startup building AI software for military command and control, raised €32 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital with strategic investment from Saab. The company's platform Prevail, which u…
OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively hired over 85 former Salesforce employees in 2026, primarily in sales and marketing roles, as the AI firms shift from research labs to enterprise revenue engines. The poaching spree…
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for $60 billion in stock on June 16, days after its Nasdaq IPO, marking the largest acquisition in AI developer tooling history. The deal aims to integrate C…
Zeta Labs has brought its AI employee Viktor to Microsoft Teams, extending the product beyond Slack where it already operates in over 20,000 workspaces. Viktor acts as an autonomous team member that reads and writes acro…
Frontier Health, a London startup founded by ex-Palantir healthcare lead Rachel Finegold, raised $16 million in seed funding led by Atomico to deploy its AI agent JUNO for NHS administrative teams. The tool, which saved …
Baseten is finalizing a $1.5bn funding round that values the company at up to $13bn, more than doubling its valuation from January. The San Francisco startup provides software and computing capacity for AI inference, bet…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched the Talent Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort for engineers and talent leaders building AI-driven recruiting systems. The program aims to address the challenge of noisy recruiting i…
Dream, a sovereign AI infrastructure startup, raised $260 million in a funding round co-led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11, reaching a $3 billion valuation. The company, founded by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio and …
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and former Character.AI CEO, is leaving Google's Gemini team to join OpenAI in an architecture research role, shifting a key model builder from the lab that invented the m…
Original investors in Manus, an AI firm, plan to buy back the company from Meta for $2 billion, according to a report. The deal would reverse Meta's acquisition of the startup and return it to independent ownership.
Yann LeCun warned that AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic face a 'big bubble explosion' due to investor-subsidized operations and insufficiently declining costs. LeCun's own startup, AMI Labs, raised $1 billion for an …
Accenture shares fell after the company reported Q3 new bookings of $19.32 billion, below the $20.66 billion estimate, and issued Q4 revenue guidance of $17.75-$18.4 billion, missing the $18.5 billion consensus. The cons…
The [un]CFO of Unconventional AI, a role created by CEO Naveen Rao, describes building the company's finance, investor strategy, and operations from scratch. The team grew from 14 people to raising $535 million, includin…