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Arcade.dev raised $60 million in Series A funding led by SYN Ventures, with participation from Morgan Stanley and Wipro, to develop an authorization layer that controls what enterprise AI agents are allowed to do. The st…
Meta's head of product for its AI for Work initiative has left the company amid a sweeping restructuring that will lay off 8,000 employees and reassign 7,000 to AI roles. The departure adds leadership turbulence to Meta'…
SpaceX shares fell as much as 4.7% on Wednesday, snapping a three-day rally that had pushed the stock nearly 50% above its $135 IPO price. The decline threatens to drop the company below Amazon in market value rankings, …
A developer building the productivity app NYN (Greek for 'now') is shifting the focus from endless to-do lists to time-driven tasks. The app enforces strict time blocks so only the current task is visible, aiming to redu…
Midjourney is revealing its first hardware project at a live event in San Francisco on June 17, 2025, with a livestream available for remote viewers. CEO David Holz, who previously co-founded Leap Motion, is leading the …
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, surpassed Amazon in market capitalization to become the world's fifth most valuable company after its stock rose 13% on its Nasdaq debut. The surge followed news of SpaceX's $60 billion acqu…
AI startup Aaru, cofounded by 21-year-old Ned Koh, accurately simulated nearly 2 million New York voters in the city's primary mayoral election, coming within 2,000 votes of the final count. The company uses AI agents bu…
Odyssey ML raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, with Amazon, Natural Capital, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT, and In-Q-Tel participating. The deal names AWS as Odyssey's preferred cloud provider a…
SpaceX shares fell below $200 on Wednesday, dropping to the high $180s after peaking at $222 on Tuesday following its IPO. The decline reignites concerns about overvaluation, as the company burns billions annually and fa…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted at the VivaTech conference in Paris that artificial intelligence will create labor shortages rather than replace humans, arguing that AI will lower barriers to human productivity. Bezo…
Poland's state development bank BGK, through its venture arm Vinci, acquired an $11 million stake in AI-voice company ElevenLabs, valued at $11 billion, and launched AI Lab Poland to support domestic AI startups. The mov…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says fear of failure is 'the stupidest thing' holding people back, urging a focus on offense and risk-taking. Srinivas, who grew up in a lower-middle-class family in India, co-founded the …
Warner Music Group acquired startup Sureel, which partners with Swedish copyright agency STIM to track AI training data usage and pay musicians. SoundVerse advocates for ongoing artist royalties from AI outputs. These in…
EarnOS, the company behind the ero mobile app, raised $6 million in a Pre-Series A round led by 1kx, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Circle Ventures, to combat AI-generated internet traffic. The funding inc…
OpenAI plans to relaunch its robotics program, highlighting a race among AI labs to train physical-world machines. Startup XDOF, emerging from stealth with $70 million in funding, aims to solve the data bottleneck by bui…
OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively hired approximately 100 Salesforce employees over the past 18 months, with Anthropic hiring more than 45 and OpenAI nearly 40, primarily in sales, marketing, and go-to-market roles.…
Autonomique, a Montreal- and Menlo Park-based startup, has deployed its physical AI software at a F&P Manufacturing production line in Tottenham, Ontario, directing semi-humanoid robots to assemble chassis and suspension…
Mistral AI has emerged as a major force in the AI startup landscape, with its models gaining significant traction and attention. The company's latest developments, including competitive pricing and strong benchmark perfo…
Convey, an AI startup founded by a former DoorDash employee, raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to sell AI 'teammates' instead of agents, aiming to automate back-office tasks like order pro…
Conduct, a London-based AI startup founded by former Palantir engineers, raised a $60mn Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ, with SAP investing. The company builds an AI operating system that maps custom enterpr…