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Justin McLeod, founder of Hinge, has raised $18 million for his new AI-powered matchmaking company Overtone, which aims to replace traditional dating apps with curated introductions based on relationship science and user…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced an additional $100 billion investment in the United States, bringing its total U.S. investment to $265 billion, as the company posted a 77% surge in second-quarter …
Arya, a relationship wellness AI startup, acquired Flamme, an app with activities for couples, in a deal sparked by a LinkedIn DM from Flamme founder An Nayal to Arya CEO Offer Yehudai. Arya will integrate its monetizati…
Traceforce (YC S26) launches company-wide security monitoring for AI apps, providing a lightweight binary and browser extension that gives security teams real-time visibility into AI agents and tools running on employee …
Fireworks raised $1.5bn in Series D funding at a $17.5bn valuation to build specialized AI models for companies, arguing that businesses will build their own intelligence rather than rent it from big labs. The San Mateo …
Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build Aidan, an AI system that runs live product demonstrations and replaces sales development workflows. The less-than-year-old startup trains Aidan on a company'…
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, to deploy AI agents inside hospitals through its Carebricks platform. The startup grew revenue 20-fold over the past year …
Zamna, founder of a network of AI radio stations, is seeking high-end voice cloning and speech synthesis technology for multiple languages and long-form broadcasting, having already launched persistent AI personalities l…
Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines Lab released its first AI model Inkling this week, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model trained on 45 trillion tokens, but the company admitted it is not the stronge…
OpenAI released its first hardware product, a $70 branded basketball called ChatGPT Basketball, as part of a campaign titled 'Pause. Play. Prompt.' aimed at encouraging creativity beyond screens. The basketball, priced w…
Traceforce (YC S26) launches a platform providing visibility and control over AI applications like ChatGPT and Claude on company devices, detecting how they connect to data sources via MCPs. The tool, already deployed ac…
OpenAI and Anthropic face scrutiny over their mission-driven governance structures, which delegate significant power to 'mission directors' with limited accountability, according to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by…
Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling, an open-weight 975-billion-parameter large language model that lets users adjust thinking effort. The model, available on Hug…
Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft this week, alleging a six-year Apple employee walked physical prototypes out the door for show-and-tell, encouraged by a 24-year Apple veteran now running OpenAI's hardware group.…
Energy companies raised $12.6 billion via IPOs in the first half of this year, the highest half-year level since the dotcom bubble in 1999, as investors seek exposure to the AI boom's power demands. RBC analyst Chris Den…
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, who left Meta last year, has founded AMI Labs in Paris to build world models based on the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA), backed by $1 billion in investment and compute fro…
Andrew Dai, a former DeepMind researcher, raised $55 million in seed funding at a $300 million post-money valuation for his visual AI startup Elorian AI, which aims to build AI systems that reason natively in the visual …
Apple is actively pursuing acquisitions of semiconductor startups to develop its own AI server chips and reduce dependence on Nvidia for high-performance AI workloads, according to a report. The iPhone maker has engaged …
QumulusAI, a distributed AI GPU cloud infrastructure provider, began trading on the Nasdaq on July 16 under the ticker QMLS via a direct listing, bypassing the traditional IPO route. The company reported net losses of ap…
Menlo Ventures, a 50-year-old Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has achieved internal rates of return exceeding 40% on its recent funds after investing approximately $1 billion in AI lab Anthropic, a stake now worth $…