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Fluence Energy received a "Strong Buy" rating from a Seeking Alpha analyst who argued the company is transitioning into an AI infrastructure provider with proprietary sub-100ms power-conditioning technology and supply ag…
IQIYI has onboarded more than 10,000 active creators to its AI production platform Nadou Pro within one month of its commercial launch on April 20. The platform, which has supported over 100 iQIYI original productions, i…
Robinhood launched beta support for Agentic Trading and the Agentic Credit Card on Wednesday, allowing customers to connect AI agents to automate investing and spending through the platform. CEO Vlad Tenev said the move …
Alook has launched an open-source platform that enables a single user to build and direct a structured team of AI agents, coordinating them like a company org chart with roles, reporting lines, and automated task distrib…
A developer is building ScopeAuditor.com, a privacy-first tool designed to analyze Statements of Work for scope creep before contracts are signed. The tool operates on a zero-retention pipeline, processing contract data …
Robinhood launched support for AI agentic trading and a new agentic credit card on Wednesday, allowing users to create separate accounts for AI agents that can analyze portfolios, execute stock trades, and make payments …
Box CEO Aaron Levie warned that tech executives are suffering from "AI psychosis," a delusion that artificial intelligence can fully automate complex work processes they do not personally oversee. Levie argued that CEOs,…
Robinhood announced Wednesday that its Gold card users can now authorize AI agents to make purchases on their behalf, with each agentic transaction earning 3% cash back. The company also introduced agent-based trading, a…
Sam Altman of OpenAI orchestrated a multibillion-dollar strategic miscalculation by convincing the market that AI is an intelligent mind capable of running global commerce, when it is actually an expensive, error-prone p…
A non-technical founder built automated reminder nudges into a Slack approval tool called TeamAutomation, using the background job platform Inngest and AI tools to implement the logic. The system sends escalating reminde…
In 2026, building an app on top of OpenAI or Anthropic is easier than ever, but AI wrappers—thin interfaces over foundation models—are dying because they lack defensibility. A polished UI and RAG pipelines can get a prod…
A new wave of consumer startups, including Hermo, Molo, and Poppy, is building AI-driven tools to automate parenting logistics such as scheduling and reminders. Hermo, founded by Jenna Blaicher-Brown and her husband Fabi…
Adult-AI startup Joi AI is hiring 10 "masturbation consultants" for a four-week study to test a new NSFW audio feature, requiring daily audio-guided sessions and weekly reports from participants aged 18 or older. The com…
Top YouTubers including Jordan Matter, Michelle Khare, and Samir Chaudry are backing Bedford, a new $3,750 annual program that trains aspiring creators through AI-enabled courses and professional coaching. The six-week p…
A new AI bookkeeping tool called Billpal automatically extracts invoices from users' email inboxes and matches them to bank transactions, eliminating manual accounting for freelancers. The service, which costs $29 and ha…
Zscaler shares fell more than 20% in premarket trading Wednesday after the cloud security company issued fiscal 2027 revenue and ARR growth guidance of 16% to 17%, signaling weaker-than-expected new customer additions. T…
A 25-year CEO of a fintech company argues that the current conversation around artificial intelligence has become hysterical and fails to reflect the reality of its business impact. The executive, who has navigated previ…
Airwallex has launched Latitude37, a new accelerator program offering young Australian technical founders aged 25 and under a $100,000 no-equity grant, trips to San Francisco and Singapore, and access to the Airwallex ec…
Lovable CEO Anton Osika directly appealed to laid-off Big Tech workers in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, declaring the era of US tech giants as the "safe, prestigious choice" is over. The Swedish AI startup, valued at $6.6 bil…
Bitcoin Japan Corporation, a Tokyo-listed company formerly known as a kimono wholesaler, has acquired a stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX through a private secondary market transaction. The investment, made via its U.S. subsid…