AI Startups

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has joined AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser and is using its generative AI technology to storyboard his upcoming films. Scorsese said the tools allow him to share his visual …

TinyFish released BigSet, an open-source multi-agent system that builds structured, exportable datasets from plain-English descriptions. The system infers schemas, dispatches agents to gather live web data, deduplicates …

DuckDuckGo recorded its highest single-day search traffic ever on June 1, driven by a surge in iPhone installs following Google's AI-heavy search overhaul announced at Google I/O. US iOS installs over the past week ran 9…

Atana Elements, a US exploration company, is using AI to identify lithium deposits beneath 1.5 million acres surrounding major battery manufacturing hubs in Salzgitter, Germany and Wroclaw, Poland. The startup aims to re…

GitHub COO Kyle Daigle detailed how the platform is adapting to a 1,400% surge in code shipped by AI agents in 2026, which is straining infrastructure originally built for human-paced development. Daigle addressed challe…

Crossmint launched a public agentic card payments API using Visa Intelligent Commerce and Basis Theory, enabling eligible US Visa cardholders to authorize AI agent payments with tokenized credentials and spending control…

President Donald Trump privately signed a scaled-back executive order on Tuesday that allows AI and tech companies to voluntarily submit advanced AI models for federal review up to 30 days before public release, down fro…

Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing to 150 partners across 15 countries, using Claude Mythos Preview to scan critical infrastructure for security flaws. The partners have already identified over 10,000 serious vulnerabi…

Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance its cybersecurity platform, potentially making its offerings more essential for enterprises facing increasingly sophisticated threats. The compan…

Andon Labs deployed an AI-operated vending machine at Anthropic's San Francisco office a year ago, then scaled the autonomous system to run full retail stores and cafés with no human decision-makers. The AI agents now hi…

Billions of dollars in philanthropic funding from the OpenAI foundation, Anthropic’s founders, and Anthropic employees is expected to generate roughly $50 billion per year in charitable spending, increasing total U.S. gi…

Special, a new company founded by former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leaders, announced it is building an AI-powered operating system called SpecialOS to transform critical American industries. The company…

Opal Camera is rebranding to Opal Electronics and expanding beyond webcams into AI-powered consumer devices, backed by a $40 million Series B investment from OpenAI. The startup, now valued at $275 million, plans to laun…

Unframe, a two-year-old startup, raised $50 million in Series B funding to help businesses deploy AI tools, bringing its total funding to $100 million. The company, which has already crossed $100 million in total contrac…

XREAL launched its new xbx brand with the $299 a01 smart glasses, a 62-gram device featuring a 1600-nit Micro-OLED display that creates a 147-inch virtual screen. The glasses cut costs by removing cameras, spatial tracki…

Companies that stop hiring junior engineers to save costs are undermining their own long-term survival, according to founder and researcher Christine Miao. Miao argues that juniors are essential for organizational contin…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares surged after the market began treating the company as a direct beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom. Investors piled into HPE stock on the view that its server and networking …

Roo Code, an open-source coding agent with 3 million installs, shut down on May 15th as its team pivoted to a cloud agent called Roomote, stating that IDEs are not the future of coding. The same week, Google's Antigravit…

Apparel brand Tuckernuck has improved its connected TV ad performance by using Keynes' new AI-powered platform Kortex, which provides granular insights into creative and regional performance. The platform, announced Tues…

Anyscale on Azure entered public preview, allowing Azure customers to provision the AI compute platform powered by Ray inside their own tenancy. Co-engineered with Microsoft, the integration inherits Azure's governance a…