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Synthesia, an AI video company, partnered with moderation-infrastructure firm Cinder on June 4 to scale its trust and safety operations, assessing every script against policies before the model renders a frame. The partn…
Alpha School’s New York City campus at 180 Maiden Lane charges $65,000 annual tuition for a program that runs from 8:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., but the New York State Education Department rejected its application to operate a…
TextQL, a New York-based AI data platform founded in 2022 by Ethan Ding and Mark Hay, builds AI agents that enable enterprises to query data across all existing systems. The company aims to serve as an intelligent layer …
Uruky, a Portugal-based paid private search engine, has added image search and URL rewrites in an update that expands its capabilities beyond web results. The service, co-founded by Bruno, charges EUR 5 per month for unl…
Bill Gurley, a former Wall Street analyst and Benchmark partner who served on Uber's board and now studies complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, shared the mental models he relies on most including systems thinking and s…
Alex Ruber, 29, and his cofounder Parth pivoted their startup five times in three months after their initial AI-powered shopping tool proved economically unviable. The San Francisco-based founders, accepted into Y Combin…
A seller in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is offering their $5.99 million luxury home for sale with the option to pay using vested shares in Anthropic, the AI startup valued at over $1 trillion, or bitcoin. The four-bedroom pr…
Shift Robotics, a startup offering free apartment cleaning in New York City, requires cleaners to wear head-mounted cameras that record their work to generate training data for AI and robotics companies. The initial 250 …
Twilio reported Q1 CY2026 revenue of $1.41 billion, up 20% year over year, and adjusted EPS of $1.50, beating analyst estimates. Operating margin rose to 7.7% from 2% a year earlier, while net revenue retention reached 1…
DaltonTx launched Dalton, a drug discovery platform that integrates molecules, assays, models, experimental outcomes, project context and human decisions into a single learning system, according to a June 4 press release…
Merantix Capital has closed a €103m fund to invest in early-stage, AI-native teams across Europe, the Berlin firm announced on 4 June. The fund is more than three times the size of its first vehicle and widens the firm’s…
Rankpage, a Malaysia-founded AI SEO agency, expanded its operations into Singapore on June 4, 2026, bringing its AI-led search optimization framework to local brands. The move targets visibility across Google and AI-driv…
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said Wednesday at the Bloomberg Tech conference that the AI chipmaker will work with every major hardware maker except NVIDIA, positioning the company as the connective layer for buyers seekin…
Benchmark has closed $2bn across two new funds, including a $1.25bn growth fund, its first dedicated to later-stage investments, alongside a $750m early-stage vehicle. The move breaks the firm's long-standing discipline …
Emergency room physician Benjamin Jack, MD, has developed Appendix, a service that uses AI agents like Claude Code to handle patient intake and generate medical encounter notes, which are then submitted through an API fo…
More than 60% of U.S. adults used AI in the first half of 2025, yet consumer AI spending remained flat at roughly $12 billion, according to a VC Cafe column by Eze Vidra citing Menlo Ventures data. ChatGPT reached nearly…
A developer used GitHub Copilot to expand VoiceAssist AI, a multilingual voice assistant for Indian bank counters, from 6 to 8 languages by adding Kannada and Urdu support. Copilot automatically generated a pull request …
An individual software developer reports achieving real productivity gains from AI agents by chaining voice notes into code changes, tests, and pull requests, but warns the economics only work for small teams and specifi…
Anthropic is accelerating its development of advanced AI models, racing to maintain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence industry. The company's push to the top reflects intensifying competi…
SpaceX amended its IPO filing on June 1 to include a provision reserving 5% of shares for friends and family without lockup restrictions, potentially allowing recipients to reap billions in immediate gains. The filing al…