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Nudge launched an agentic commerce platform and raised $1.1 million in seed funding to enhance AI shopping tools for brands in apparel, beauty, and other retail categories.
Two Google AI researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving to join Anthropic, following Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer. The departures, which wiped $270 billion from Alphabet's …
Google is set to lose two more AI researchers to Anthropic, a startup founded by former OpenAI employees. The departures highlight ongoing talent migration from big tech to AI startups.
AI startup Legion sued the U.S. government after a federal directive forced Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing its advanced AI models, causing immediate harm to Legion's operations. The lawsuit, filed in…
Dubai Holding is in early-stage talks to acquire a stake in Hscale, Bain Capital's hyperscale data center platform in Europe and the Middle East, as Gulf sovereign capital increasingly targets AI infrastructure assets. T…
Runpod, a cloud startup renting AI computing power, raised $100 million in a funding round led by Summit Partners, reaching a $1 billion valuation—a tenfold increase in under two years. The company doubled its annualized…
Garfield, a law firm that uses artificial intelligence instead of lawyers, won a case in Wandsworth County Court in May, helping a freelancer recover £7,000 in unpaid fees. The ruling marks the first time an AI-driven la…
Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren urged the FTC and DOJ to investigate 'reverse acqui-hire' deals by Nvidia, Meta, and Google, which they say allow Big Tech to absorb AI startups without antitrust review. The s…
Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, has acquired GPTZero, an AI detection startup. The deal aims to create an "authenticity layer" for the internet, combining Superhuman's writing tools with GPTZero's AI…
Antonio Mallia's Seltz raised $12.5 million in seed funding to build web search infrastructure for AI agents, led by Speedinvest and B Capital. The startup aims to provide machine-oriented search that extracts structured…
SpaceX's Starship rocket will enable Elon Musk's plan to deploy up to 1 million solar-powered AI satellites in low Earth orbit, creating orbital data centers. The project, supported by Andreessen Horowitz, involves xAI's…
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses lead the market but lack a killer feature, risking their position to rivals like Samsung, Google, and Apple due to limited apps and mediocre AI, according to Gizmodo. Without a standalone cap…
AI industry super PACs spent over $40 million in a New York congressional primary, defeating assemblymember Alex Bores, a proponent of strict AI regulation. The race became a proxy battle over federal AI policy, with Bor…
KraneShares' AGIX ETF holds a $13 million stake in Anthropic, acquired during a February 2025 funding round, giving retail investors pre-IPO exposure to the $183 billion AI company. The position represents up to 2.91% of…
Riviera Partners, an Insight Partners-backed executive search firm, acquired Lateral Labs, an AI startup recruiter founded by former OpenAI recruiter Rob Infantino, to expand its AI and machine learning talent search cap…
EXL's subsidiary Clairvoyant AI agreed to acquire iMerit for up to $310 million, including $170 million upfront and $140 million in earnouts. The deal, expected to close in Q3 2026, adds iMerit's Ango platform and Schola…
Mistral released OCR 4 on June 23, a document-processing model that returns structured data with bounding boxes, block types, and confidence scores, targeting enterprise back-office tasks like invoice processing and comp…
At Config 2026, Figma expanded its canvas into a full workspace with code, animation, shaders, and AI agents, but the AI capabilities are rented from API providers, squeezing margins. One of those providers is now buildi…
Meta appointed Kunal Shah, founder of Indian fintech CRED, as global head of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart, and led a $900 million financing round valuing CRED at $4.5 billion. The move signals Meta's strategic pivot…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and dismissed SpaceX's AI strategy as a 'premium-priced CoreWeave' in a recent interview, arguing that buying an AI company like Cursor doe…