AI Startups

ElevenLabs has partnered with Hasbro’s AI Studio to license characters including Optimus Prime, Mr. Potato Head, and Mr. Monopoly for commercial AI voice use through its Iconic Marketplace. The deal, announced Wednesday …

SpaceX is set to debut as one of the largest IPOs in history with a $1.75 trillion valuation on June 12, but Morningstar analyst Nicholas Owens values the company at just $780 billion—55% below the target. Owens warned t…

Nvidia has acquired Kumo AI, a four-year-old startup that develops foundation models for business predictions, according to two sources familiar with the deal. The startup's three co-founders transitioned to Nvidia last …

Aeterna, a new digital legacy platform, launched to help individuals preserve their life stories through AI-guided voice interviews and create interactive archives for family members. The service uses weekly prompts for …

GitClear's analysis of 211 million lines of code reveals that refactoring is declining while duplicated code is increasing, a pattern the project attributes to agentic tech debt. A developer created a plugin that logs ev…

Martin Scorsese, the 83-year-old Oscar-winning director, joined German AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser, becoming the highest-profile filmmaker to embrace generative AI for storyboarding and filmmaking. The partne…

A developer built Market Verdict, a Go-based application that analyzes business ideas and returns a structured, practical assessment before founders invest months building the wrong product. The tool scores ideas by comb…

Fairplay announced plans to explore AI-powered personalization technologies to enhance user experience, improve content discovery, and increase platform accessibility, according to a June 3, 2026 press release. The compa…

Filmmaker Boots Riley publicly criticized Martin Scorsese for endorsing AI startup Black Forest Labs, accusing the 83-year-old director of prioritizing financial gain over industry concerns. Scorsese signed on as an advi…

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar declined to confirm whether the company’s device, led by former Apple designer Jony Ive, is an earpiece. Friar did not provide any details on the device’s form factor during her remarks. The lack o…

A forecaster and investor who claims consistent success in predicting economic and geopolitical outcomes argues that human behavior is far more predictable than commonly assumed, citing a track record of accurate calls f…

A developer built Hoovik, an open-source AI-powered video meeting platform that combines WebRTC signaling, distributed Node.js with Redis, real-time emotion AI, and a Python transcription pipeline. The platform uses a mu…

SnapCal, a new web-based food scanner, allows users to photograph meals and receive editable nutrition estimates including calories, macros, and a food quality score. The tool also features a Macro Coach that calculates …

Axiom, a seven-month-old startup, solved all 12 problems on the 2025 Putnam exam, scoring 12/12 within the time limit and outperforming both top undergraduates and other AI systems. The feat demonstrates the company's "v…

Pitch Agent, a new AI tool integrated into the Pitch editor, generates presentations from a user's branded template rather than a generic one, eliminating the need for manual design fixes. The tool allows for real-time c…

Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also on the deal, targeting an October listing at a $965 billion valuation. SpaceX's own IPO filing reveale…

Charlie Warren, a guest on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, predicted that AI-native service companies will dominate the next decade by focusing on customer outcomes rather than internal tools. He introduced the "Sam Al…

Ideogram released Ideogram 4, its first open-weight text-to-image model, and published the inference code and weights on GitHub. The 9.3 billion parameter model, trained from scratch as a foundation model, is now availab…

Strava members who run, walk, or wheel a 5K on Wednesday, Global Running Day, can earn a free two-week Runna Premium subscription. The promotion follows Strava's acquisition of the AI-personalized running app in April, o…

A developer built Xaloia AI, a privacy-focused AI platform, but is shutting it down because the startup was based in Romania. The founder cited a lack of paying early adopters, a limited startup ecosystem, cultural frict…