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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says fear of failure is 'the stupidest thing' holding people back, urging a focus on offense and risk-taking. Srinivas, who grew up in a lower-middle-class family in India, co-founded the …
Warner Music Group acquired startup Sureel, which partners with Swedish copyright agency STIM to track AI training data usage and pay musicians. SoundVerse advocates for ongoing artist royalties from AI outputs. These in…
EarnOS, the company behind the ero mobile app, raised $6 million in a Pre-Series A round led by 1kx, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Circle Ventures, to combat AI-generated internet traffic. The funding inc…
OpenAI plans to relaunch its robotics program, highlighting a race among AI labs to train physical-world machines. Startup XDOF, emerging from stealth with $70 million in funding, aims to solve the data bottleneck by bui…
OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively hired approximately 100 Salesforce employees over the past 18 months, with Anthropic hiring more than 45 and OpenAI nearly 40, primarily in sales, marketing, and go-to-market roles.…
Autonomique, a Montreal- and Menlo Park-based startup, has deployed its physical AI software at a F&P Manufacturing production line in Tottenham, Ontario, directing semi-humanoid robots to assemble chassis and suspension…
Mistral AI has emerged as a major force in the AI startup landscape, with its models gaining significant traction and attention. The company's latest developments, including competitive pricing and strong benchmark perfo…
Convey, an AI startup founded by a former DoorDash employee, raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to sell AI 'teammates' instead of agents, aiming to automate back-office tasks like order pro…
Conduct, a London-based AI startup founded by former Palantir engineers, raised a $60mn Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ, with SAP investing. The company builds an AI operating system that maps custom enterpr…
Pramaana Labs, an AI startup founded by Ranjan Rajagopalan, raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to develop formal verification systems for large language models. The company targets rule-heavy domai…
Google announced its first new smart speaker in six years, the $99 Google Home Speaker, which ships June 25. The device is built around Gemini for Home, but key features like Gemini Live and Home Briefs require a $10/mon…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attended a working lunch with G7 leaders in France on June 17, days after US export controls on Anthropic's models triggered a global access shutdown and renewed Europ…
Pramaana Labs, a San Francisco-based AI startup, raised a $27M seed round led by Khosla Ventures to build a verification layer for AI that makes outputs provable in high-stakes industries like law, healthcare, and tax co…
Pramaana Labs raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to apply formal verification to AI systems, targeting high-stakes fields like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation. The startup combines large l…
The US Department of Commerce awarded AI startup SandboxAQ $500 million under the CHIPS Act to develop new semiconductor materials, reducing reliance on Chinese supply chains. The government takes an equity stake and roy…
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb's Third Point hedge fund sold oil and steel holdings in Q1 2026 and bought $40.8 million worth of Hut 8 Corp shares, betting on the former Bitcoin miner's pivot to AI data centers. The move …
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb's Third Point hedge fund acquired a $40.8 million stake in Hut 8 Corp., a Bitcoin miner pivoting to AI data centers, during Q1 2026. The investment reflects growing institutional interest in…
Klipy, a GIF and meme content startup, raised $3.8 million from Google's AI Futures Fund and venture capital firms to grow its platform, which lets users create and share GIFs, stickers, and video clips. The company aims…
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb's hedge fund Third Point held 275,000 shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as of Q1 2026, making TSMC his top AI bet, while reducing its Nvidia stake and adding Bitcoin miner…
Sinclair has invested in IRCODE, a computer vision startup that enables interactive and shoppable TV, and will roll out the technology in Salt Lake City and Austin starting July 2026. The system lets viewers use their ph…