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Martin Scorsese has publicly backed AI startup Black Forest Labs, revealing he used the company's technology to create storyboards and visualize scenes during preproduction on an upcoming film. The 83-year-old director j…
AethexAI, a voice AI startup founded by former Goldman Sachs and Meta employees, has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to build voice AI tailored for Africa and the Middle East. The company developed its own small mo…
Union Square Ventures (USV) is hiring two human analysts after a year-long experiment with AI agents proved insufficient for fully replacing human judgment in venture capital. The firm found that while AI agents were eff…
Historian Niall Ferguson warned that the artificial intelligence competition between the United States and China mirrors the Cold War nuclear arms race, calling for comparable strategic doctrine and arms-control mechanis…
The AI Summit London returns for its 10th annual edition on 10-11 June at Tobacco Dock, with organisers expecting more than 5,000 attendees, 300 speakers and over 100 exhibitors. The programme features executives from NV…
A developer building an AI garden visualization tool discovered that a friend's initial enthusiasm didn't translate into action, revealing that the problem wasn't painful enough to motivate participation. After the frien…
ChatGPT became the fastest app to reach 1 billion monthly active users in May, achieving the milestone three years after launch and outpacing platforms like TikTok and Instagram, according to Sensor Tower data. Meanwhile…
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading a $55 million Series A investment round in Town, a startup developing a personal AI assistant that learns user behavior across email, calendar, and messaging app…
A blockchain protocol engineer has released Division Swarm, an open-source operating system for multi-agent systems that emerged from building a micro-SaaS factory. The runtime prevents large language models from directl…
Suno, the AI song generator led by CEO Mikey Shulman, announced it raised over $400 million in Series D funding at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation. Bond Capital led the round, with participation from IVP, Forerunner,…
Small businesses across the U.S. are spending hundreds of hours each month on administrative tasks like data entry and billing, diverting owners from patient care and core services. AI agents now have the capability to a…
Microsoft announced a suite of new AI products at its Build conference on Tuesday, including its first reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1, a cybersecurity tool, and AI agents, signaling its intent to compete independently af…
Cherry Bekaert, a top-20 accounting and advisory firm, selected Fieldguide as its strategic AI partner for financial audit, consolidating planning, testing, review, and reporting across Financial Audit, Internal Audit, a…
AlphaSense launched SuperAnalyst, an always-on AI agent that executes multi-step research and monitoring workflows across the AlphaSense platform, according to a June 3, 2026 press release. The agent builds custom dashbo…
Richtech Robotics Inc. completed the acquisition of a 79,325-square-foot warehouse in Las Vegas for approximately $21.2 million on May 29, 2026, to support GPU-enabled computing, robotics data collection, and World Actio…
Perplexity announced a hybrid AI system that automatically decides whether to process tasks locally on a user's device or route them to cloud models, optimizing for accuracy, privacy, and energy efficiency. The model-agn…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hired 28-year-old start-up founder Alexandr Wang a year ago to overhaul the company's struggling artificial intelligence division, betting on an outsider's urgency over veteran researchers. Wang …
A new product, "Claude Code Agents," offers five prebuilt AI specialists for a one-time payment, targeting solo founders who cannot afford traditional hires or recurring SaaS subscriptions. The agents, which include role…
Coralogix, co-founded by Ariel Assaraf and Yoni Farin, raised $200 million in a Series F round at a $1.6 billion post-money valuation, led by Advent International and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Assaraf is …
Space datacenters could become economically viable by the late 2030s, according to a new analysis of orbital compute costs. SpaceX has stated plans to launch 100 gigawatts of compute to space annually, citing improved to…