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Cedana, a Y Combinator-backed startup from the S23 batch, is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to help maximize AI and HPC cluster utilization through automated GPU checkpointing and live migration. The company’s kernel…
British autonomous-vehicle software startup Wayve is launching a new research unit called Wayve Labs, led by chief scientist Jamie Shotton, to explore embodied intelligence systems beyond self-driving cars. The lab will …
XCENA, a four-year-old chip startup with offices in South Korea and the U.S., raised $135 million in Series B funding at a $570 million valuation to develop a chip that moves compute capabilities closer to DRAM memory. T…
Headroom, a new macOS menu bar app, reduces Claude Code token usage by approximately 50% by locally trimming prompt bloat and boilerplate before inputs reach the model. The tool processes all data on the user's machine, …
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York in exchange for recording the work to train future robots. Cleaners will wear a camera-equipped "magic hat" to capture footage from their…
The New York Post reports that creators are reconsidering their AI subscription stacks due to rising costs, with example prices of $20 for text generation, $30 for video editing, $15 for image enhancement, and $25 for au…
Retail Gazette reported on 29 May 2026 that Dr Daniel Hulme, CEO of Satalia and chief AI officer at WPP, argued the largest commercial gains for retailers lie in optimisation and decision intelligence rather than generat…
Kerala will rename its IT department as "Kerala Tech" and released a draft "IT Vision 2031" targeting $50 billion in IT economic value and over five lakh jobs by 2031. The state also announced four strategic missions, in…
Netrasemi, a Kerala-based fabless semiconductor startup backed by Zoho, launched its flagship A2000 edge AI system-on-chip after successful silicon bring-up, fabricated at TSMC on a 12nm process node. The chip integrates…
The Government of Canada plans to name and fund national "technology champions," directing significant resources to selected firms. Arteria AI CEO Shelby Austin warned against this approach during Toronto Tech Week, urgi…
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering limited-time free home cleanings in New York City where cleaners wear head-mounted cameras to record first-person footage. The recordings capture tasks like scrubbing bathrooms,…
A developer building a rate calculator tool has generated over 3,200 calculations with zero ad spend but remains at $0 revenue after 18 days. The product is live and functional, yet the developer is blocked from acceptin…
A 2026 survey by Hackceleration found that over 60% of AI-generated prototypes never ship to production, with database configuration, authentication flows, and deployment infrastructure cited as the most common failure p…
Fonoa, a Dublin-registered tax-tech company, raised $110 million in a Series C funding round led by Headline and acquired PwC’s Indirect Tax Edge software to build a real-time compliance platform. The company aims to int…
A solo developer built 15 SEO tool sites under a single domain (deepfms.com) in four months, with some sites achieving 200+ daily page views and AI Overview citations within days of launch. The developer used a system co…
Explee launched AutoGTM, an AI sales agent that converts a website URL into a fully automated outbound pipeline within two minutes, eliminating manual prospecting and SDR coordination. The system uses seven autonomous ag…
Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, raised $65bn in funding on Thursday, valuing the company at $965bn post-money and making it the world’s most valuable AI startup, surpassing competitor OpenAI. The fundin…
NegoAgent, a startup founded in 2025 by Peter Hansson, has launched an AI-driven tool that uses agentic AI and a feature called Radar-AI to help business professionals practice negotiation skills as an alternative to tra…
Toronto founder and CTO Vitalii Dodonov and his cofounder John spent 14 days building an AI content tool called Stanley, which generated $50,000 in revenue within six weeks of launch. Their company, Stan, reportedly earn…
Astera Labs CEO Jitendra Mohan and co-founders Sanjay Gajendra and Casey Morrison won the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year award in Monaco, joining past honorees Jensen Huang and Michael Dell. The Silicon Valley semicon…