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Guild.ai, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2025, has raised $44 million in Seed and Series A funding led by GV to provide a neutral control plane and governance infrastructure for enterprises deploying AI agents …
Tencent is conducting limited internal tests of an AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to send messages, make voice calls, and navigate mini-programs via text and voice commands. The feature, confir…
Twolabs, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2026, develops modular humanoid robots and a software platform for training and deploying robots in elder care facilities. The company aims to address labor shortages in …
Rex, an AI-native service deploying specialized agents to manage enterprise order-to-cash operations, launched in 2026 with backing from Y Combinator and Vercel. Founded by Merlin Kafka and Lewis Blackwood, the London-ba…
Jennifer Martinez, a 35-year-old product manager at an AI startup in New York City, earns over $1,000 a month from four side gigs including dog-sitting, ceramics, TikTok content creation, and product consulting. She star…
Marketers are shifting content budgets toward creators, agency services, and tools to influence AI-generated search results, rather than spending heavily on AI search ads. Brands like Butterball and Priceline are testing…
Infera, an AI-native laboratory operating system startup founded in 2026 and backed by Y Combinator, converts natural language experiment descriptions into validated protocols, material orders, instrument execution, and …
Skild AI, a startup founded in 2023, has raised a $1.4 billion Series C led by SoftBank to develop a general-purpose AI brain for any robot, aiming to overcome the fragmentation in robotics AI. The company's omni-bodied …
Yann LeCun called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned that frontier AI labs face a bubble burst due to unsustainable investor subsidies, citing xAI's $2.5 billion quarterly loss. LeCun, who left Meta to found AMI Labs, …
Software engineer and author Kent Beck, now 65 and recently diagnosed with Parkinson's, argues that the time value of money makes long-term financial promises worthless to older individuals, as a billion dollars in 30 ye…
Runway's fourth annual AI Film Festival in Santa Monica showcased ten AI-generated short films, highlighting rapid advancements in generative AI tools for filmmaking. Industry figures argued that AI democratizes filmmaki…
OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing IPOs in the US amid record equity highs and strong demand for AI-linked listings, while Jio Platforms and the NSE face subdued investor appetite in India's less enthusiastic IPO market,…
Apple raised MacBook prices by up to $400 as a memory-chip shortage driven by AI data center demand squeezes consumer electronics supply. Data centers are expected to consume 70% of global memory production in 2026, with…
Apple supplier Lingyi iTech is seeking up to HK$8.3 billion (US$1.1 billion) in a Hong Kong IPO to fund expansion into AI hardware and humanoid robotics. The Shenzhen-listed components maker plans to debut on Friday, off…
Instinct, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company, launched a mobile trading app that uses AI and quantitative tools to help retail traders act on their instincts in global and crypto markets. Founded by former Squarepoint Ca…
The United States now accounts for more than half of the global credit impulse, adding roughly $800 billion in net new credit over the past year, driven primarily by artificial intelligence spending, according to UBS ana…
RealPact, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company founded by Dartmouth students, has launched voice-powered AI agents that automate real estate transactions by retrieving property records, filling contracts, and managing work…
Zenbu, a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company founded by former Next.js core team member Rob Pruzan, launched an extensible IDE purpose-built for managing AI coding agents. The tool addresses operational complexity from para…
Spyne, an AI-native automotive retail tech company, migrated its real-time CDC pipeline from a self-managed Debezium/Kafka stack to ClickPipes and ClickHouse Cloud, eliminating 1.5+ hours of manual work per table onboard…
AI companies selling inference must choose between cost-plus and value-based pricing to maintain margins. Cost-plus caps margins as inference commoditizes, while value-based pricing decouples revenue from inference costs…