AI Startups

Anthropic cofounder Chris Olah, a self-declared atheist and billionaire AI safety researcher, sat beside Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican last week to warn that the tech industry cannot govern itself. Olah, who serves as the …

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC on Wednesday that the winner of the artificial intelligence race will be determined by which company delivers the highest "value per watt per user," prioritizing energy effici…

OpenAI is leading a new funding round for Opal Electronics, a San Francisco startup known for its high-end webcams, as part of a broader push into hardware development. The investment will help Opal expand beyond cameras…

San Francisco homebuyers are paying millions above asking prices as an AI-fueled boom drives the city's real estate market to new extremes. A tech worker's $300,000 over-ask offer on a $1.3 million home in the Sunset Dis…

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that has operated without outside investment for 18 months, is raising approximately $7 billion in its first external funding round at a valuation between $52 billion and $59 billion. Founder…

Flok Health, a Cambridge-based company with regulatory approval to autonomously triage, treat, and discharge NHS patients without human oversight, raised $12.5 million in Series A funding led by AlbionVC. The company wil…

Megaport, an Australian networking company, raised A$827.3 million ($594 million) through a fully underwritten entitlement offer and secured four AI infrastructure contracts worth A$458.9 million ($329 million) to build …

Qianxun, a Hangzhou-based embodied AI startup, closed a RMB 1.5 billion ($205 million) A+ funding round, according to a report from Aligned News. The investment marks a significant bet on China's rapidly accelerating phy…

Gigaton, a startup formerly known as Carbon Re, raised $26 million in Series A funding on June 3 to replace legacy control software in heavy industrial plants with an autonomous AI system. The company, which has raised o…

GymCoach, a new open-source, self-hosted workout tracker, allows users to log hypertrophy training sessions and receive AI-powered coaching using their own Anthropic or OpenRouter API key. The application, built with Nex…

Developer Yogesh Chavan built Frame, a free web application that generates studio-quality portraits of users in any global location using uploaded selfies. The tool creates DSLR-level images with natural poses while pres…

A Hacker News user asked the community to identify products or projects that are rethinking human-AI interaction, noting that current frameworks like Streamlit and terminal-based tools such as Claude Code and Codex are n…

Inc42 reports that selling AI to enterprises now requires startups to navigate procurement hurdles, build trust, and prove measurable ROI rather than relying on flashy demos. Praveer Kocchar, cofounder of KOGO AI, told I…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising approximately $7.39 billion in its first external funding round, a deal that could value the company between $52 billion and $59 billion. The funding figures, reported by Reuters an…

Israel-based startup Yuvi Lab launched a free, web-based AI platform that lets children aged six and up build games, apps and learning tools without requiring a login, with support for Hebrew, English, Russian and Arabic…

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srini told CNBC that the decisive factor in the AI race will be the economic value delivered per unit of compute, placing cost efficiency above raw performance. Srini argued that investors and cust…

AI programming now enables the development of "super apps" like enterprise operating systems that were previously impractical due to the high feature threshold required for utility. Developers can build comprehensive pla…

GitLab is cutting approximately 14% of its full-time workforce, roughly 350 employees, and exiting 22 countries as part of a restructuring to realign its operating structure for the "agentic era" of artificial intelligen…

Critical Start has released SOC AI, a multi-agent AI framework that powers its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service by coordinating ten specialized agents across the full alert lifecycle. The system handles detec…

Two former staffers of the Department of Government Efficiency launched Special, a private-equity firm that plans to buy companies and use artificial intelligence to cut costs, backed by a roster of Elon Musk allies incl…