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Canva cofounder Cameron Adams said the company does not mandate a specific AI tool for employees, instead giving them budgets to experiment with tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Adams argued that forcing a tool dis…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI model developer, is preparing for a mainland IPO and may file its listing application as soon as this year, targeting a 2027 debut, according to Bloomberg. The company is in talks with acc…
The WebArena leaderboard shows that even the best-performing AI agents have a success rate of only 45.7% on real-world tasks, highlighting significant challenges in reliability, cost, and user trust. An OpenAI employee n…
Dave Clark, former Amazon worldwide operations chief, has raised $150 million for his AI startup Auger, which uses AI agents to automate supply chain execution decisions. The Bellevue, Washington company closed a $50 mil…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in advanced talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed Venture Partners reportedly leading a $200 million round, according to TechCrunch. Wang,…
AI cloud company CoreWeave is exploring Wall Street hedging strategies to manage price risk for memory chips, according to a Reuters report. The move aims to stabilize costs amid volatile demand for chips used in AI infr…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is in talks to raise approximately $1.5 billion at a pre-money valuation of 480 billion yuan (~$71 billion), a 37% increase from its May round, and has begun IPO preparations targeting a 2027 …
Apple is in exploratory talks to acquire PrismML, a Caltech spinout that uses ultra-low-bit compression to shrink large AI models by up to 14x, enabling them to run natively on iPhones. PrismML raised $16.25 million in s…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the ChatGPT maker to launch an AI drug discovery startup valued at $2 billion, with plans to raise about $200 million from Lightspeed, according to sources. The startup aims to dev…
CoreWeave signed long-term cloud contracts with Microsoft and OpenAI through 2030 without hedging against memory chip prices, and DRAM prices have since tripled, squeezing margins to roughly 1% on nearly $8 billion in an…
CoreWeave, the AI-focused cloud infrastructure company that went public in March 2025, is evaluating financial derivatives such as futures contracts to hedge against declining memory and storage chip prices, protecting i…
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO on 1 June, with Polymarket putting the chance of a 2026 listing at 65%, and investor Gavin Baker estimating on the All-In podcast that Anthropic would trade at $3 trillion if lis…
Trainy, a Y Combinator company, migrated from Amazon RDS Postgres to ClickHouse Managed Postgres to reduce costs and make initial page loads up to 3x faster for its open-source experiment tracker Pluto. The migration bro…
Companies are creating in-house AI consultant roles with total compensation between $150,000 and $250,000, a position that barely existed 18 months ago. The role sits at the intersection of business strategy, workflow de…
Gabriel Amzallag, a former Qonto conversion specialist, launched Web Anatomy (webanatomy.ai) by pre-selling a feature for €99 before building it, validating demand with a single paying customer. The product, an agent-wri…
Andrej Karpathy released nanochat 2026, an open-source full LLM pipeline in 8,000 lines that he calls a 'ChatGPT for $100', while AgentMemory became the top persistent memory system for AI coding agents with 22,000 GitHu…
OpenAI plans to launch its first hardware device, a smart speaker powered by ChatGPT, priced between $200 and $300, with a camera and sensors for environmental awareness, targeting an unveiling in 2026 and market launch …
Hinge founder Justin McLeod has raised $18 million from Match Group, FirstMark Capital and Pace Capital for Overtone, a voice-first dating startup that uses AI conversation instead of profiles and swiping. McLeod, who st…
Federal acquisition reform and the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul are shifting procurement from labor-based to fixed-price, outcome-focused contracts, structurally advantaging AI-native Outcome Integrators. These firms combi…
OpenAI's first hardware device will be a screenless smart speaker with motorized moving parts and a camera, acting as an AI companion, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, designed by former Apple designer Jony I…