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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising approximately $7.39 billion in its first external funding round, a deal that could value the company between $52 billion and $59 billion. The funding figures, reported by Reuters an…
Israel-based startup Yuvi Lab launched a free, web-based AI platform that lets children aged six and up build games, apps and learning tools without requiring a login, with support for Hebrew, English, Russian and Arabic…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srini told CNBC that the decisive factor in the AI race will be the economic value delivered per unit of compute, placing cost efficiency above raw performance. Srini argued that investors and cust…
AI programming now enables the development of "super apps" like enterprise operating systems that were previously impractical due to the high feature threshold required for utility. Developers can build comprehensive pla…
GitLab is cutting approximately 14% of its full-time workforce, roughly 350 employees, and exiting 22 countries as part of a restructuring to realign its operating structure for the "agentic era" of artificial intelligen…
Critical Start has released SOC AI, a multi-agent AI framework that powers its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service by coordinating ten specialized agents across the full alert lifecycle. The system handles detec…
Two former staffers of the Department of Government Efficiency launched Special, a private-equity firm that plans to buy companies and use artificial intelligence to cut costs, backed by a roster of Elon Musk allies incl…
Image Harvest v1.0.5, a Chrome extension for batch image downloading and organization, now includes AI-powered smart tagging that uses computer vision to automatically categorize images as photos, illustrations, icons, U…
A developer building the Android productivity app Thinkora prioritized an evening reflection feature over a morning planner, based on beta testing that showed users who reflected at night had higher task-completion rates…
Kodesage, a London and Budapest-based startup, raised $6.6 million in seed funding led by VentureFriends to modernize legacy enterprise software using AI that runs entirely on-premise. The company’s platform automates th…
Apoha, a deep tech startup building AI models to create new materials based on wave-form data from substances suspended in liquid, emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a $36 million Series A funding round led by Singular…
OpenAI's ChatGPT surpassed 1 billion global monthly active users in May, roughly three years after launch, making it the fastest app in history to reach the milestone, according to Sensor Tower estimates. The AI assistan…
E2B has launched a special offer for founders in a16z Speedrun, providing Andreessen Horowitz-backed early-stage teams with access to its isolated code execution sandbox infrastructure for AI agents. The infrastructure a…
BridgeToAgent has released a free MCP connector that allows AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to check whether any online store is readable and shoppable by AI agents. The tool scores stores on a 0–100 readi…
Anthropic is expanding access to its Claude Mythos vulnerability detection model to approximately 150 additional organizations through Project Glasswing, bringing the total to about 200 groups. The initial cohort of roug…
London-based Gigaton has raised a $26m Series A round led by investor Plural. The company uses artificial intelligence to reduce energy consumption and costs in manufacturing.
Peng, a solo founder and ESL teacher in Taipei, built Acortia in five weeks—a Discord-native "Company Brain" that answers questions with grounded, cited responses using saved server content. The $99/month bot, launching …
Developer Sahil Mane completed AutoFlow, a stock market automation platform built with React, Node.js, MongoDB, and n8n that had been unfinished for months. The platform includes paper trading, portfolio tracking, stock …
Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at its Build conference, including the flagship MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model built with clean data lineage and no third-party distillation. The company released a 109-page techn…
A non-technical founder's guide to shipping a React Native side project to the App Store outlines a 6-to-10-week process for solo founders, from concept through submission. The guide details the five stages of developmen…