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Orbital Industries, a startup using AI to design advanced materials, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Plural, with participation from Nvidia's venture arm and other prior invest…
Box CEO Aaron Levie said the rise of AI agents will shift software usage from human interfaces to "headless" API-driven access, requiring vendors to adapt business models to monetize agent consumption. Levie stated Box i…
Luxury smartphone brand Vertu unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable phone starting at $6,880 that uses an AI agent to connect with enterprise software and coordinate workflows for executives. The device, which features a pr…
Google announced a new cohort of 15 AI-first startups for its Google for Startups Accelerator: Middle East, North Africa & Turkey program, beginning June 1. The selected companies, spanning sectors from healthcare to e-c…
Wix is cutting approximately 1,000 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, in the largest layoff round in the company's history after its stock price collapsed nearly 50% since the start of the year and it posted a net loss of $5…
Swedish AI company Sana requires new employees to spend a week on a small island outside Stockholm as part of its onboarding process. New hires join a group chat asking about their cooking plans and survival skills, and …
Major technology firms including Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have publicly linked layoffs to AI adoption, eliminating tens of thousands of roles, with Meta cutting about 8,000 positions in an AI-focused restructuring. D…
The shift from human-only to agent-assisted form submissions is reshaping form design, as operators increasingly ask whether AI assistants can complete signups, registrations, and vendor onboarding on their behalf. FORML…
A developer analyzed 1,000 AI-generated blog posts using a programmatic quality pipeline built for the content automation tool PostAll. The analysis measured five dimensions of quality—readability, grammar, structure, ke…
Two competing settlement layers for the agent economy have emerged, each answering a different version of the same question. OKX Agent Payments Protocol (APP) operates as a custodial venue layer, offering broad multi-cha…
Nudge Security has expanded its AI security platform to include browser-based discovery of shadow AI agents, addressing a critical gap where other solutions rely on platform APIs that many agent-building tools do not yet…
Alibaba.com launched Accio Work, an AI-powered business support platform for South Korean small and medium-sized enterprises, on Thursday. The system automates tasks from market research to global marketing, aiming to gi…
Seoul is opening its parks, bridges, hospitals and public squares to startups as part of the expanded "Testbed Seoul 2.0" program, allowing companies to test AI, robotics and smart infrastructure technologies in real urb…
XAI released version 0.2.3 of its Grok Build coding agent on May 27, 2026, adding a /remember command that allows developers to save notes and project context that persist across coding sessions. The update, which also i…
Muddy Waters Capital is reevaluating plans for an India-focused long-short fund as artificial intelligence reshapes labor markets and sector opportunities. Founder Carson Block, known for activist short-selling, has rule…
A developer built a production AI application for just $10/year by combining HuggingFace Spaces (free tier) with a Cloudflare Worker (free tier) and a custom domain. The setup provides 16GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 50GB disk, and un…
China's April exports surged 14.1% year-over-year, nearly double the median forecast, driven largely by AI-related goods and integrated circuits that accounted for roughly half of the growth. Integrated circuit exports a…
Vercel's v0 AI tool can generate functional React UI components with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui from natural language prompts in under 15 seconds, according to a developer who tested it by generating 35 components over a…
Animoca Brands invested $1 million in Superior.Trade on April 1, integrating the protocol-layer platform into its Minds ecosystem to enable AI agents to autonomously research, backtest, and execute crypto trades. The par…
An indie developer's web game reached 130,000 monthly active users with zero marketing spend, driven by an accidental multi-language launch that first attracted Spanish-speaking audiences before pivoting to higher-value …