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Fidji Simo, OpenAI's head of product and business, is stepping down due to a severe exacerbation of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). She will remain as a part-time advisor. CEO Sam Altman expressed grati…
Velocity, a startup founded by former ironSource and Unity executives Tal Shoham, Amir Shaked, and Nimrod Zuta, has raised $27 million to build an advertising layer for AI chat interfaces. The company applies mobile app …
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol on July 9, 2026, scoring 59 on the Intelligence Index, one point behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at 60, but at a third of the cost at $1.04 per task versus $2.75. Sol tops the Coding Agent I…
XAI's Grok 4.5 scored 83% on Terminal Bench, outperforming many costlier models in multi-step coding tasks, while Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 excels in complex reasoning and high-stakes professional work. The two models …
Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm founded three years ago on the premise that AI would reshape software, reports that the market has exceeded bullish expectations, with frontier models moving to production, open-so…
XAI released Grok 4.5, a large language model offering near-frontier coding performance at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, roughly half the cost of comparable models. The model is optimized …
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down, marking the latest leadership shake-up at the artificial intelligence company.
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role due to a prolonged medical leave, transitioning to a part-time advisory position. Her departure creates a leadership gap as OpenAI prepares f…
AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B using its own AI agents to manage the fundraising process, including pitching to 130 firms and tracking investor engagement with its presentation. The agents monitor how …
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment, is stepping down from her full-time role to become a part-time adviser after taking medical leave for a chronic neuroimmune condition. Simo joined OpenAI in 2024 to lead produc…
OpenAI's applications chief Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role to a part-time advisory position due to a chronic neurological condition called POTS, raising concerns about leadership continuity at the AI…
OpenAI president Fidji Simo is taking a medical leave of absence due to a neuroimmune condition, and COO Brad Lightcap has transitioned to a special projects role, as the AI company prepares for a potential IPO. The exec…
SK Hynix, a leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory crucial to AI systems, begins trading on Nasdaq via American depositary receipts under ticker SKHY. The listing gives investors a new way to buy shares in the South K…
Sherpa, a German startup founded by Tristan Deschler, Tim Altpeter, and Max Lang, raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI operating system for managing external workforces that include contractors, supplie…
Berlin-based reverse.fashion, a TU Berlin spin-off using AI for used-textile sorting, secured a seven-figure pre-seed extension from High-Tech Gruenderfonds. The funding will support commercial expansion of its computer …
AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are moving up the technology stack to escape the commodity trap of undifferentiated model inference, pursuing vertical integration and enterprise lock-in strategies that could reduce com…
OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 family of models on Thursday, featuring three variants—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The models are positioned as OpenAI's strongest cybersecurity offer…
AI data labeling startup Mercor is in talks to raise $500 million at a $20 billion valuation, which would make its three 23-year-old cofounders worth an estimated $4.3 billion each.
A Hacker News user asks why there are so few consumer AI companies, hypothesizing that high LLM costs create an unsustainable cost floor for free apps, that most consumers do not accept AI, and that investors are skeptic…
Lyzr, a Jersey City-based startup that builds AI agents, used its own AI agent, SivaClaw, to raise a $100 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. The agent fielded questions from over 130 investors, drafted memos, …