AI Startups

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati made her first major public appearance in 18 months on Thursday, previewing Thinking Machines Lab's new "interaction models" designed for continuous audio, text, and video processing. Murati…

GitLab laid off approximately 350 employees, or 14% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring to scale its platform for AI workloads. The company is exiting 22 countries and flattening management layers while investin…

Chinese startup Spirit AI has topped the RoboArena leaderboard with a score of 1,924, surpassing Nvidia's Cosmos3-Nano-Policy at 1,881 in a benchmark Nvidia co-developed with Stanford and UC Berkeley. The achievement mar…

A growing number of Indian AI researchers in Silicon Valley are seeking to return to India, driven by U.S. layoffs and tightening immigration policies under the Trump administration. Indian startups and global firms expa…

Corporate spend management platform Ramp closed a $750 million Series F funding round on June 4, 2026, valuing the company at $44 billion. The round, led by ICONIQ, GIC, and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, nearly qua…

Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei said the high cost of training AI models is pushing the company toward an initial public offering, speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco. The comments follow Anthr…

The rapid expansion of AI hardware manufacturing is creating economic distortions reminiscent of Dutch disease, where a booming sector drives up costs and draws resources away from other industries. This phenomenon is le…

Canada launched its "AI for All" national strategy on June 4, committing CAD $2 billion over five years to build sovereign compute infrastructure and train one million students in AI literacy. The plan aims to increase b…

IT Secretary S Krishnan on June 5 dismissed concerns about artificial intelligence and urged industry to deploy AI solutions across manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, and education, according to PTI. Speaking at the…

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi announced June 4 that the $134 billion data and AI company plans to go public but will not do so in 2026, calling it a "terrible year to go public" due to an oversaturated IPO market. Ghodsi sai…

Apple has approved Poke as the first AI agent to operate within its Messages app, marking a significant expansion of third-party AI integration on iOS. The approval allows Poke to directly interact with users through iMe…

Casual investors face significant disadvantages when trying to profit from high-profile IPOs like SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, as these offerings are typically reserved for institutional and wealthy investors. Retail i…

Scytale, an AI GRC platform, launched a guerilla marketing campaign during NY Tech Week featuring an LED truck with an ad showing a man panicking on a toilet after a prospect asked for a SOC 2 report. The campaign target…

Data-centre developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50bn, capitalizing on surging demand for AI infrastructure. Brookfield Asset Management, KKR, and other institutional inve…

CodeMouse has launched an AI-powered code review tool that integrates with GitHub to automatically review pull requests using Claude, GPT, or both. The service costs $10 per month with a 14-day free trial, requires users…

Vibe coding, the practice of using plain English to prompt AI to write code and build apps, has exploded in popularity in 2026, with tech CEOs, retirees, and even children participating. Business Insider tested tools lik…

Nearly 90 venture capital firms and money managers have invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a WIRED analysis of PitchBook data, revealing an unusual overlap between the rival AI labs. The shared investor …

Bank of America director Michael Hartnett warned that the artificial intelligence investment bubble is nearing its breaking point and advised investors to prepare for a potential market crash. Hartnett outlined a strateg…

S&P Dow Jones Indices has decided against fast-tracking SpaceX, Anthropic, and other megacap IPOs into the S&P 500, meaning the companies will not be eligible for inclusion in the index favored by 401(k) plans for at lea…

Nick Srnicek’s “Silicon Empires” details how a handful of big tech companies and the U.S. and China are jostling to control artificial intelligence, a struggle that will fragment the global economy. James Muldoon’s “Love…