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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, …
Tencent has hired former OpenAI researcher Tian Yonglong to work on visual-language models, marking its second recruitment from OpenAI. Tian, who holds a PhD from MIT and previously worked at DeepMind and OpenAI, will jo…
OpenAI is shutting down its AI-powered browser Atlas, launched in October, and redistributing its agentic browsing features across ChatGPT's desktop app and a new Google Chrome extension. The move follows CEO of applicat…
Elon Musk reversed months of public criticism by calling Anthropic the current leader in AI, praising its Mythos and Fable models as unmatched. Musk admitted he was 'clearly wrong' about the company, which is now paying …
OpenAI is shutting down its ChatGPT Atlas AI-powered web browser less than nine months after launch, with a deprecation date of August 9, 2026. The move is part of a broader consolidation around core products and enterpr…
Opendoor co-founder JD Ross revealed that his new startup WithCoverage, an AI-enabled insurance company backed by Sequoia and Khosla, has eliminated manual code writing by its engineers, relying entirely on autonomous AI…
Cursor, the AI code editor company, is developing a general-purpose AI agent called Sand to handle everyday office tasks like emails, texts, and spreadsheets. Internal rollout began in late June 2026, positioning Sand as…
Paradigm closed a $1.2 billion AI and robotics fund on July 8, 2026, signaling a broader reallocation of venture capital away from digital assets. Crypto VC fundraising hit a six-year low in Q2 2026, with new fund format…