AI Startups

Founders Fund launched a new YouTube and X show Thursday featuring 12 Silicon Valley figures, including Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and Bryan Johnson, playing the deception game Mafia at San Francisco's Tosca Cafe. The 33…

California lawmakers are again considering AB 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems. The Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted an o…

The Conversation published an essay examining how AI companions are reshaping love, sex and intimacy, focusing on Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda who trained a chatbot on a deceased friend's text messages. Replika drew rou…

Insurtech Insights USA 2026 concluded after two days at New York's Javits Center, drawing more than 6,000 carriers, reinsurers, and technology builders. The conference's main-stage programming shifted the conversation fr…

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee called for artificial intelligence to preserve the web's original values of individual primacy, speaking to AFP at SXSW London 2026. Berners-Lee warned that AI models rely on the w…

New York City is emerging as a hub for applied artificial intelligence, driven by major office leases from OpenAI and other AI firms, according to reporting from NY Tech Week. Andreessen Horowitz partner David Haber pred…

Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei dismissed concerns about AI's return on investment ahead of the company's confidential IPO filing, arguing that businesses are still early in learning how to deploy the technology effe…

Flourish, a New York-based neuroscience startup, raised $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation from investors including Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital, and GV. The company is developing Cortex AI, a brain-inspired system desi…

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab, moving from AI adopter to competitor in the field. The lab's focus may center on user interaction and design, areas Chesky emphasized at Airbnb, though he will remain…

Humanoid robots continue to stumble and fall in public demonstrations, including a face-plant during a dance performance in China and a collapse at the Beijing Half Marathon, highlighting their lack of readiness for real…

A Hacker News user posted an open thread asking tech workers how they are feeling, citing a sense of collective darkness. Commenters responded with advice on maintaining a positive outlook through action and questions ab…

Humanoid robots performing acrobatic feats and household chores in viral videos do not prove they can reliably repeat those tasks in real-world conditions, robotics researchers said. The human tendency to anthropomorphiz…

Venture capitalists at NY Tech Week are betting New York City will become the "applied AI capital," with AI giants like OpenAI opening offices to tap into the city's media, finance, and healthcare industries. The optimis…

A developer has released Knowable, a free AI tutor for MacOS that uses the webcam to follow a student's handwritten work on paper and provide contextual hints. The application is available on the Mac App Store without re…

A FinOps strategist argues that generative AI is transitioning from an experimental phase to one demanding financial accountability, warning that without rigorous resource management, it risks becoming a major value dest…

Netrasemi has begun supplying engineering samples of its A2000 edge AI chip to select customers, marking the first full-feature system-on-chip developed by the startup. The 12-nanometer chip, built on TSMC’s process, del…

A developer spent 40 hours reading production logs from teams running LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen agents, then launched a $149 diagnostic service that analyzes agent traces and delivers a written report with prioritiz…

Arena.ai launched Agent Arena, a new benchmark that ranks AI agents based on their performance on live user tasks rather than static test questions. The leaderboard evaluates models using tools for web search, filesystem…

Intencion launched a product analytics tool designed specifically for AI agents in production, capturing every user interaction end-to-end including intent, agent steps, and outcomes. The tool installs with one line of c…

Heroku announced the next generation of Heroku Postgres, introducing a new Postgres Advanced tier built on AWS database technologies. The tier delivers over 4x throughput improvement, supports more than 200TB of storage,…