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SnapCal, a new web-based food scanner, allows users to photograph meals and receive editable nutrition estimates including calories, macros, and a food quality score. The tool also features a Macro Coach that calculates …
Axiom, a seven-month-old startup, solved all 12 problems on the 2025 Putnam exam, scoring 12/12 within the time limit and outperforming both top undergraduates and other AI systems. The feat demonstrates the company's "v…
Pitch Agent, a new AI tool integrated into the Pitch editor, generates presentations from a user's branded template rather than a generic one, eliminating the need for manual design fixes. The tool allows for real-time c…
Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also on the deal, targeting an October listing at a $965 billion valuation. SpaceX's own IPO filing reveale…
Charlie Warren, a guest on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, predicted that AI-native service companies will dominate the next decade by focusing on customer outcomes rather than internal tools. He introduced the "Sam Al…
Ideogram released Ideogram 4, its first open-weight text-to-image model, and published the inference code and weights on GitHub. The 9.3 billion parameter model, trained from scratch as a foundation model, is now availab…
Strava members who run, walk, or wheel a 5K on Wednesday, Global Running Day, can earn a free two-week Runna Premium subscription. The promotion follows Strava's acquisition of the AI-personalized running app in April, o…
A developer built Xaloia AI, a privacy-focused AI platform, but is shutting it down because the startup was based in Romania. The founder cited a lack of paying early adopters, a limited startup ecosystem, cultural frict…
Coinbase's x402 protocol surpassed 100 million agentic transactions on Base within nine months of its May 2025 launch, according to a Chainalysis report. The protocol, which repurposes the HTTP 402 status code to enable …
The era of memorizing syntax and debugging compiler errors is over, as AI-native development tools now handle coding, testing, and debugging. This shift transforms student developers from code writers into system orchest…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar declined to confirm whether the AI hardware device developed with former Apple designer Jony Ive is an earpiece, joking that revealing the form factor would prompt Ive to kidnap her teenage son. Fr…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a blueprint for a 6-foot, 150-pound humanoid robot called H2 Plus, combining a Chinese-made body from robotics startup Unitree with an American Nvidia Thor chip and advanced software. Th…
Celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary said he is "not walking away" from his proposed AI data center in Utah after a state lawmaker demanded the project be reduced by 75%. Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams called for the …
CNN filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Perplexity in a New York federal court, alleging the AI company unlawfully crawled, scraped, and reproduced "verbatim" portions of CNN articles, including …
Ramp launched Ramp Stack, an AI operating system designed for accounting firms, targeting a $150 billion market. The company reported that 92 of the top 100 CPA firms already have clients on its platform and that Stack r…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company's top internal user consumes approximately 100 billion tokens per month, a roughly 1,000,000-fold increase from the 100,000 tokens used by its leading customer six and a ha…
Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase to lead its initial public offering, following a confidential S-1 filing with the SEC on June 1, 2026. The AI company behind the Claude models is t…
Virtual reality exercise app Supernatural is relaunching this fall as an independent company called Supernatural Health, months before Meta planned to shut it down. The new app will retain all original coaches but increa…
Hyper (YC P26) launched a shared "company brain" that ingests data from Slack, email, calendars, and documents to power AI agents with comprehensive, up-to-date company context. The system builds a hybrid memory of facts…
A new framework outlines five levels for integrating AI into existing SaaS applications, ranging from basic API access via MCP servers to full conversational interfaces with history and tool states. The progression helps…