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Canada's AI minister Evan Solomon said he is more concerned with fostering domestic unicorns like Cohere than with monopoly risks, asking how he can create 20 more such companies. Solomon made the remarks at BetaKit's Mo…
ByteDance is offering special stock grants to employees in its artificial intelligence division to prevent rival companies from poaching its talent. The move aims to retain key AI researchers and engineers amid intensify…
A developer built AimVantage, an AI tool that generates a full interview preparation pack from a user's CV and a job link in 90 seconds. The tool, built solo in 53 days, replaces multiple paid services like Jobscan and F…
Stord raised $250 million in Series F funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund and others, to expand its "physical intelligence" layer for commerce a…
Chinese government agencies have begun requiring top artificial-intelligence professionals at private firms, including Alibaba and DeepSeek, to obtain approval before traveling abroad, according to people familiar with t…
Xulvertik debuted an AI-powered trading platform for cryptocurrency and multi-asset markets on May 26, 2026, according to a press release distributed by GlobeNewswire. The platform features an AI-assisted market analysis…
OpenRouter raised $113 million in Series B funding led by Alphabet's CapitalG, with participation from NVIDIA, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures, valuing the company at ro…
Palantir Technologies' valuation is testing investor appetite for AI-driven growth, with the company's market capitalization tied to expectations for AI-related revenue expansion. The debate over Palantir's valuation inf…
Databricks co-founder Reynold Xin and Ada CEO Mike Murchison told a University of Toronto convocation event that Gen Z backlash against artificial intelligence stems from legitimate fears about job displacement, with Xin…
Four-Leaf's AI Stack Index analyzed 37,920 job postings from public companies and found that only 14.6% mention any of 75 tracked AI tools or skills. The most common AI skill, agentic AI, appears in just 8% of listings a…
A new visual desktop app called Claude Workflow Composer (CWC) allows Claude Code users to build multi-agent workflows by dragging agents onto a canvas, connecting them with handoff arrows, and exporting working agent fi…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who spent the past year warning that artificial intelligence would eliminate large numbers of white-collar jobs, now say those predictions were wrong. Altman said Tue…
SoftBank has hired banks to prepare for US initial public offerings of its SB Energy renewable energy unit and Roze, an artificial intelligence robotics spinoff, according to sources familiar with the matter. The listing…
SpaceX and OpenAI IPO speculation is driving a new surge in artificial intelligence stocks, with Salesforce and Snowflake earnings reports expected to further influence the sector. The rally comes as investors anticipate…
Twenty-eight-year-old entrepreneur London Jackson, who goes by London Glorfield professionally, has built a business called Kickback selling retro and "dumb tech" products to Gen Z consumers seeking a break from the AI e…
OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, raised $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Alphabet, reaching a post-money valuation of approximately $1.3 billion. The valuatio…
Rotaku, a Bay Area startup, launched the Domo humanoid robot platform starting at $2,999, targeting robotics researchers who need full-body AI capabilities without enterprise costs. The robot ships in two sizes—a 90cm De…
Sage Care, a Y Combinator-backed startup (S24), is hiring software engineers to build its AI-native operating system for home care agencies. The company’s platform automates paperwork by transcribing calls and visits int…
A new developer tool called Understand Anything generates interactive graphs that map codebases to business domains, authentication flows, and payment pipelines. The tool supports 26+ file types, offers hierarchical dril…
Most professional software engineers have not yet adopted advanced AI coding tools, according to conversations with hundreds of developers at the Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis. Staff engineers and team …