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Domo founder Josh James was arrested for DUI after crashing his BMW into a mailbox, and the company faces a cash crunch with $137 million in debt, forcing it to seek a sale. The once-$2.8 billion software firm has seen i…
Two weeks after the US government ordered Anthropic to cut global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Asian AI labs have released competing models. Japan's Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier-class orchestrator model, while …
Austin Chen and Oliver Habryka discussed plans to improve the AI safety funding ecosystem with a better S-Process platform and a new incubator for EA/AIS software projects called Surplus. Habryka criticized philanthropy …
Notion will shut down Notion Mail on September 22, 2026, citing that more than half of users now manage email through AI agents without opening the inbox. The company is going all-in on agent-based email workflows, advis…
The Golden State Warriors announced a jersey sponsorship deal with IREN, an AI cloud provider, worth $50 million per year. Warriors owner Joe Lacob said the team is embracing AI across the organization, while IREN founde…
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin reported that the company's inbound AI agent, Amelia, booked 614 qualified sponsor meetings from 442,000 chats at the SaaStr AI Annual 2026 event, replacing the equivalent of 3-10 BDRs. The ag…
OpenAI has appointed former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, effective September. Singh will oversee growth, partnerships, and regulatory engagement in OpenAI's second-larges…
Meta holds 84% of the global smart glasses market in Q1 2026, shipping 7.4 million units in 2025—a 281% year-over-year increase—driven by AI-powered Ray-Ban glasses starting at $299, while competitors collectively accoun…
Andy has joined Simple AI as employee #16, taking on a forward deployed role after previous stints at Scale AI and as a cofounder of Shuffle. He expresses enthusiasm for working alongside cofounder and CTO Zach, citing a…
The Federal Trade Commission fast-tracked Elon Musk's acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, granting early termination of an antitrust review, while the same agency spent years investigating his Twitter purchase. The…
Hyoomn, a new service from Fairpixels, offers weekly async design reviews for B2B SaaS teams that use AI to code, providing actionable feedback on UI, UX, and brand for $1,950/month. The service targets teams whose AI-ge…
Alphabet is expanding its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business through a $5 billion joint venture with Blackstone to build 500 MW of TPU compute capacity by 2027, as Google Cloud revenue is projected to rise 64% to $96 …
Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it claims can compete with Anthropic's Mythos, while Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier model designed for agents. Both releases follow a U.S. g…
Photon Matrix Lab, a Chinese startup, raised US$2.7 million on Indiegogo for its AI-powered laser mosquito zapper, far exceeding its US$20,000 goal. The device uses AI vision and lidar to detect and kill mosquitoes mid-f…
At least 10 power infrastructure and clean technology companies have gone public in 2026, raising $11.6 billion, as investors bet on solutions to AI's growing energy demands. The IPO surge is fueled by cash-rich tech fir…
Tokyo-based Sakana AI and Beijing cybersecurity firm 360 Security launched AI tools this week as alternatives to Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable models, capitalizing on the US export ban now in its third week. Sakana…
OpenAI's decision to delay its IPO filing has triggered a sharp sell-off in AI stocks, with analysts warning that the move signals deeper troubles for the sector and could mark the beginning of a prolonged downturn in 20…
OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser declared the company is 'clearly in the advertising business now' at the Cannes Lions festival, outlining plans to shift from an 'awareness economy' to an 'intelligence economy…
Nvidia's venture arm NVentures disclosed a $10.4 million stake in Generate:Biomedicines, an AI-driven drug discovery company with a Phase 3 asthma trial and FDA Fast Track oncology candidates. The investment signals Nvid…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, 2026, imposing a 50% stock tax on major AI firms to create a $7 trillion public fund that would pay $1,000 annual dividends to every U.…