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ElevenLabs released Music v2, an upgraded AI music generation model that can transition between genres like opera and heavy metal within a single song while maintaining musical coherence. The model also features improved…
C2i Semiconductor has taped out an AI power chip, marking a milestone in India's semiconductor development. The company said the achievement demonstrates India's growing capability to create complex semiconductor intelle…
Cognition raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round that values the company at $26 billion, marking a 2.5x valuation increase from its September Series C. The AI agent lab now projects over $1 billion in annual recur…
Checksum has launched its Continuous Quality Agent, an autonomous system that runs nightly against deployed applications to automatically generate and heal broken tests without requiring engineer intervention. The tool a…
On July 16, 2024, developer Nick shipped the first build of Repo Prompt, a tool designed to automate copy-pasting code into AI models, after recognizing that early coding tools struggled with context windows and reliable…
Enterprise AI startup Emergence AI ran five 15-day simulations of AI-governed societies, finding that Claude Sonnet 4.6 created a stable democracy with zero crime while Grok 4.1 Fast's society committed 183 crimes and co…
Luxury smartphone brand Vertu unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable phone starting at $6,880 that uses an AI agent to connect with enterprise software and coordinate workflows for executives. The device, which features a pr…
SpaceX’s upcoming IPO is expected to raise $80 billion, but 78% of that amount—$62.8 billion—is already pledged to insiders, vendors, and debt repayment, leaving less than $18 billion to fund the company’s AI expansion. …
Google announced a new cohort of 15 AI-first startups for its Google for Startups Accelerator: Middle East, North Africa & Turkey program, beginning June 1. The selected companies, spanning sectors from healthcare to e-c…
Orbital Industries, a startup using AI to design advanced materials, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Plural, with participation from Nvidia's venture arm and other prior invest…
London-based cybersecurity startup Geordie AI has raised a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital, valuing the company at $155 million post-money in what is believed to be the largest Series A for a European…
Vertu has launched its first book-style folding smartphone, the AlphaFold, targeting business executives with an integrated AI agent called Hermes that can manage schedules and connect to enterprise systems. The company,…
Box CEO Aaron Levie said the rise of AI agents will shift software usage from human interfaces to "headless" API-driven access, requiring vendors to adapt business models to monetize agent consumption. Levie stated Box i…
Wix is cutting approximately 1,000 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, in the largest layoff round in the company's history after its stock price collapsed nearly 50% since the start of the year and it posted a net loss of $5…
Elon Musk stated that SpaceX agreed to only a six-month lease for the Colossus AI supercomputer to Anthropic, contradicting earlier reports of a longer-term arrangement. The limited lease duration raises questions about …
Swedish AI company Sana requires new employees to spend a week on a small island outside Stockholm as part of its onboarding process. New hires join a group chat asking about their cooking plans and survival skills, and …
Major technology firms including Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have publicly linked layoffs to AI adoption, eliminating tens of thousands of roles, with Meta cutting about 8,000 positions in an AI-focused restructuring. D…
The shift from human-only to agent-assisted form submissions is reshaping form design, as operators increasingly ask whether AI assistants can complete signups, registrations, and vendor onboarding on their behalf. FORML…
A developer analyzed 1,000 AI-generated blog posts using a programmatic quality pipeline built for the content automation tool PostAll. The analysis measured five dimensions of quality—readability, grammar, structure, ke…
Two competing settlement layers for the agent economy have emerged, each answering a different version of the same question. OKX Agent Payments Protocol (APP) operates as a custodial venue layer, offering broad multi-cha…