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NEURA Robotics closed a $1.4 billion Series C, the largest full-stack robotics funding round in history, as the race to control the Physical AI ecosystem intensifies. Sharpa integrated its Wave tactile gloves into the Un…
Kioxia Holdings Corp. briefly surpassed Toyota Motor Corp. as Japan’s most valuable company on June 3, reaching an intraday market capitalization of approximately ¥45 trillion ($281 billion). The memory chipmaker’s stock…
In 2026, startups are adopting AI-powered systems that can summarize meetings, qualify leads, draft support responses, and execute multi-step workflows across different tools, moving beyond simple rule-based automation. …
OpenAI's ChatGPT reached 1 billion monthly active app users in May, becoming the fastest app to hit that milestone roughly three years after launch, according to market-intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Sensor Tower data a…
A developer built FeedLog, an open-source, self-hosted feedback management tool designed to replace Discord and spreadsheets for bug tracking and feature requests. The tool uses Docker Compose for quick deployment and in…
KKR launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new platform backed by more than $10 billion in capital commitments, and named former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky as co-founder and CEO. The venture, anchored by KKR…
OpenAI submitted a confidential S-1 filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a potential initial public offering, joining Anthropic and SpaceX in a concentrated wave of high-profile listings. The company…
OpenAI will open a Madrid office in the second half of 2026, its fifth European location, to expand ChatGPT localization and partnerships with Spanish companies and research institutions. The move follows OpenAI's integr…
Ahmad Mustafa built CodePulse, a GitHub App that analyzes pull requests and tracks recurring code issues per developer over time. The app runs a two-pass AI analysis using Groq's Llama 3.3 70B model, stores findings per …
SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest initial public offering in history on Thursday, surpassing all previous IPO records. The company, led by Elon Musk, posted a $4.94 billion loss in 2025 on $18.7 billion in revenue…
A cross-platform AI assistant called OpenClaw has amassed 360,000 GitHub stars in Asian developer communities while remaining largely unknown in the West. Built primarily for game developers, the Rust and JavaScript proj…
Ukraine launched a "Logistics Lockdown" campaign using AI-guided Hornet kamikaze drones, developed by US company Swift Beat LLC with backing from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to strike Russian fuel tankers, convoys, a…
A solo developer launched Manob, a social media platform that replaces algorithmic feeds with chronological timelines and incorporates built-in fact-checking and bias detection. The platform does not run ads, track user …
Keshav Reddy's Equal AI secured $30 million in Series B funding to develop an AI call assistant for Indian consumers. The startup, founded in 2022, initially focused on data sharing for financial services before pivoting…
An 18-year-old BTech computer science student in India built XEdge, an AI tool discovery platform, entirely solo and with zero budget over four months while attending college. The project has attracted 500 users, curated…
Avataar AI, a startup selected for India's $1.2 billion India AI Mission, launched a new video generation model called Varya that is 10 times faster and 20 times cheaper than competitors like Veo and Runway. The model, b…
Inithouse, a studio running an AI photo animation tool across five country domains from a single codebase, encountered significant technical and localization pitfalls during development. The team faced issues including b…
Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code at Anthropic, told Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference on June 10, 2026, that the company prioritizes hiring generalists, candidates with low ego, and empiricists. Cherny said the compa…
Sophia NLU v1.2, an on-device, low-compute natural language engine built in Rust, now runs voice assistants without internet or a GPU, using only 160MB of RAM. The upgrade adds entity clarification, state persistence, an…
Anthropic, an AI startup, is valued at $965 billion but still relies on Google for financial support, highlighting the high costs and dependency on big tech in the AI industry.