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Two former OpenAI founders, Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, launched In the Weights, a free tool that measures how strongly AI models like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 can identify and describe a person from their internal …
NVIDIA has reportedly acquihired the team from Essential AI, including co-founder and Transformer paper co-author Ashish Vaswani, to join its Nemotron research group. The move strengthens NVIDIA's in-house model research…
Carles Reina, employee #4 at ElevenLabs, built a go-to-market system that drove $500M in revenue. The AI Corner details an 8-agent GTM stack with operator rules, three workflows, and a 30-day rollout plan to automate sou…
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood purchased 223,690 shares of Snowflake worth $52.45 million and $22 million in Tesla on June 18, signaling a capital rotation toward AI-adjacent growth stocks. The firm also trimmed its Roku pos…
OpenAI is partnering with Japan's Open Network Lab to host a startup pitch contest in Kyoto on July 1, 2026, offering up to $1 million in API credits and $100,000 in cash to early-stage founders building for a post-AGI f…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh held interest rates steady at 3.50%-3.75% during his first FOMC meeting on June 17, 2026, removing forward guidance and declining to submit his own dot-plot projection. The move leaves s…
KKR launched Helix Digital Infrastructure on June 10 with over $10 billion in capital commitments from KKR, Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA, and Vistra to build AI infrastructure. Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky leads t…
Former OpenAI designers Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn launched In the Weights, a website that queries multiple AI models to measure how well they recall a person without using web search, assigning a strength score. The s…
Prem AI announced multi-GPU confidential inference is now available in production through Fluso, its secure AI workspace for sensitive workloads. The move targets regulated industries needing hardware-backed data protect…
Block Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey co-authored an essay arguing that AI makes middle management obsolete, as the company cuts 40% of its workforce. The new model replaces managers with individual contributors, DRIs, and player-c…
Velane launches an open-source n8n alternative that lets AI agents build, test, and deploy workflows autonomously via MCP, eliminating manual coding of integrations. The platform supports 800+ tools, sandboxed execution,…
A 38-year-old VP of Sales quit her job and used $20,000 from her house sale to fund a travel blog, giving herself one year to make it profitable. As the money ran out and her blog crashed, she nearly returned to corporat…
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and current CEO of Wabi, warned that protests over AI-driven job losses are imminent, citing her own decision to stop hiring junior engineers as a sign of the trend. She told Platformer'…
Chinese investors including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent are in talks to buy back AI startup Manus from Meta for $2 billion, the same price Meta paid six months ago, after Beijing mandated the deal's unwinding on national …
Exa launched Exa Agent on June 16, transforming its AI-native search API into a research agent endpoint for developers. The product automates structured web research tasks like deep research and entity enrichment, priced…
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and CEO of Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 in a plane crash near La Baule, France, on June 19. He and a flight instructor were killed when their Cessna 421 crashed en route to an…
Nobel laureate John Jumper announced Friday he is leaving Google DeepMind for rival AI startup Anthropic after nearly nine years. Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, will join …
Sarvam AI raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, becoming India's newest unicorn as sovereign AI moves from slogan to necessity after US restrictions on Anthropic models highlighted foreign dependency risks. Th…
Bitdeer Technologies sold all 3,231 BTC it held since February 2026, generating over $205 million to fund a pivot into AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The Singapore-based miner now holds zero Bitcoin, u…
A startup called 'Now & Here' launched an Android app three months ago that lets users request near-real-time video of any location and pays nearby people to record it, aiming to solve the trust problem with outdated or …