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Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation to build AI systems that understand the physical world, arguing that current large language models cannot achieve human-level intelligence. The Paris…
Kuaishou's AI video generation business Kling AI raised nearly $3 billion in external funding on July 2, with a post-money valuation of $18 billion. The round was co-led by CPE, Guofang Venture Capital, BlueFive, Tencent…
Tencent is joining a reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou's AI video generation platform Kling AI, which is expected to be valued at $18 billion. Kuaishou plans to spin off Kling AI and launch an IPO as early a…
Granola, an AI notepad, helps sales and investment professionals capture high-quality leads at networking events by converting rough shorthand into structured CRM records without interrupting conversations. The tool uses…
Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by 2026, up from under 5% in 2025, while over 40% of agentic AI projects are expected to be canceled by end of 2027 due to inadequate d…
Dawnguard raised $3.3 million in pre-seed extension funding on July 1, bringing total funding to over $6.3 million, as the company launched its security architecture automation platform and opened a New York office. The …
A developer relations professional at an AI coding startup attended 23 developer events in six months, interacting with over 3,000 developers. Key observations include a wide AI literacy gap, bottom-up adoption of AI too…
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake worth about $42.6 billion, with CEO Sam Altman pitching the idea to President Trump and top officials. The plan aims to democratize AI's economic benefits and inc…
Straiker appointed Sriram Puthucode as chief revenue officer three days after announcing a $64 million Series A, tapping the former Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks executive to turn early AI-agent security demand into glo…
Microsoft launched a $2.5 billion unit called 'Frontier Company' to embed 6,000 AI engineers directly at enterprise clients, aiming to integrate AI into core processes with measurable ROI. The move positions Microsoft as…
Meta quietly launched a new gaming app called Pocket, which lets users generate interactive mini-apps and games using AI prompts. The app, built on technology from Meta's acquisition of vibe-coded gaming platform Gizmo, …
Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion initiative with over 6,000 engineers and consultants, to help enterprises deploy AI across multiple models. The organization uses forward-deployed engineering…
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip, aiming to address chip shortages and reduce reliance on Nvidia. The company has not yet determined the chip's specifications or use case, and continues …
SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor raises questions about whether the platform will continue offering models from rival labs Anthropic and OpenAI. Cursor hopes to remain model-agnostic post-acqu…
OpenAI proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in AI labs, including itself and Anthropic, to create a sovereign wealth fund worth an estimated $600 billion. The plan faces significant hurdles, as investors are un…
Byrne Hobart predicts that AI labs will briefly operate as neoclouds, offering compute capacity to outsiders before pivoting, in a 2026 essay that also covers FDE crunch, Fable, egg futures, IBM's evolution, and surtaxes…
Microsoft launched a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 experts, to deliver enterprise AI deployments. The venture, which resists the Forwa…
SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a new AI-integrated device, a handset slimmer than an iPhone running on a proprietary SpaceX operating system, to boost interest ahead of its IPO. The device, which uses Qualcomm Sn…
BlackBerry reported Q1 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year-over-year, and EPS of 4 cents, beating estimates. The company's QNX operating system is now in 275 million cars and expanding into robotics, drones, and medic…
Australian startup Springboards has launched Flint, an LLM trained to generate more diverse responses to open-ended questions, addressing the predictability and lack of creativity in mainstream chatbots like ChatGPT and …