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Bland AI, a San Francisco-based voice AI company, is hiring a Machine Learning Research Intern for its audio stack, offering a focused research project in speech-to-text, large language models, neural audio codecs, or te…
Fireworks AI, a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion and founded by the team behind PyTorch, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for its EMEA field team in London, with the role focused on building product capabili…
ExlService Holdings Inc. completed its acquisition of iMerit Technology, a leader in AI model training and evaluation, with iMerit founder Radha Ramaswami Basu joining EXL as executive vice president and head of iMerit. …
A report from the Institute for Public Policy Research warns that Big Tech's control of cloud and AI infrastructure could prevent the UK from capturing the economic benefits of artificial intelligence, with 79 percent of…
Attimet (YC F24), a San Francisco-based AI research lab founded by veterans of Optiver, DRW, and Argo AI, is hiring members of technical staff for engineering and research roles to build LLM-powered systems and agent har…
Luma AI, a company building multimodal AI models for generating and understanding the physical world, is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in Berlin, Germany, with a hybrid work model and an unpublished salary. The role…
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf said customers placed more than $2.6 million in orders for the $399 Microduck robot within its first 24 hours on sale, causing a backlog that delays new orders by 4–6 months. The two-le…
StartupWiki, a community-driven AI-powered research directory of global startups, is offering free lifetime pro access to its platform, which provides in-depth profiles, funding data, financial metrics, competitive analy…
Nvidia Corp. reported revenue that doubled year-over-year, beating expectations, and CEO Jensen Huang said the company will remain capacity-constrained, driving its stock up nearly 9% on Thursday. The company is reported…
Moonvalley, an AI research lab, released Marey, a text-to-video and image-to-video model trained exclusively on licensed and public-domain footage, positioning it as commercially safe for professional studios and brands.…
Higharc, a homebuilding AI platform that uses a single design model to drive plans, buyer options, estimates, permits, and marketing assets, has raised a $95M Series C led by Insight Partners. Named builders on its site …
GeekyAnts, a San Francisco-based AI-powered digital product engineering and consulting company, has been named among top AI app development companies by Fixnhour in its July 2026 listing, which evaluates providers on ver…
Paxa Labs, an AI research lab in Bangkok, has launched a suite of Thai-language AI models delivered through a single API, including text-to-speech, OCR, and translation. The models are designed to handle the unique chall…
OpenAI and Thailand's Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI) launched the OpenAI x MHESI AI Accelerator in Bangkok on August 28, 2026, an eight-week program providing US$2,000 in API credi…
CollabKar, an AI-powered influencer marketing platform built for the All Things Agentic Hackathon by Google Cloud & Gemini, aims to help Indian MSMEs and D2C founders vet creators and price campaigns. The platform uses G…
UBTech has logged more than 13,000 preorders for its U1 companion robot in China, with deposits of 3,000 yuan ($450) each, ahead of first deliveries promised by September 15. The U1, priced from 119,800 yuan ($16,700) to…
AI News Digest for Aug 28 lists 30 stories, including Nvidia's $673B forecast indicating sustained AI compute demand, Alphabet losing $700B in market value, Meta potentially investing $10B in Anthropic, and Jensen Huang'…
Nvidia has agreed in principle to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion, nearly double the $7 billion valuation at which Hugging Face rejected a $500 million Nvidia investment six months ago. Separately, Z.ai released GLM…
Clara Shih left Meta this spring after AI agents let her cut a product development process that once required user researchers, designers, product managers and three kinds of engineers down to one or two people and a pro…
Dark Bloom, a distributed inference network, pays Mac owners to share idle compute for AI inference, with payouts via Stripe and models served through OpenRouter at lower prices. The project, which requires at least 48GB…