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OpenAI Group PBC today launched ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program giving 100,000 scientists free access to advanced ChatGPT features as part of a $250 million initiative to support scientific projects. The prog…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot's Kimi K3 open-weight model, unveiled on Jul 17, reportedly rivals frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI at a fraction of the cost, suggesting China may not need to build better AI than th…
Meta Platforms said Wednesday that its artificial intelligence investment of up to $145 billion this year is already boosting its advertising business, even as heavy spending slashed free cash flow to $784 million from $…
Andrew Garfield said he was not entirely surprised Amazon MGM Studios dropped the Luca Guadagnino-directed film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and OpenAI, noting the company was supportive during production and helped the…
Onyx Security raised $113 million in Series B funding on July 29, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, to build a control plane for AI agents in corporate systems. The round, which values the company at an estimated $640 mi…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on July 29, 2026, that personal AI agents will be "the foundation for our next wave of products and revenue lines" as the company reported second-quarter results and outlined a con…
AI startups have stopped publishing detailed research papers, shifting from academic transparency to corporate secrecy to protect proprietary models and maintain competitive advantage. This lack of transparency forces de…
SPC hosted its largest Demo Faire to date in San Francisco, with over 25 portfolio companies presenting live demos ranging from hypersonic space launchers and generative fashion intelligence to AI agents for enterprise w…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on the company's Q2 2026 earnings call that Meta is planning a major push into personal AI agents that can work 24/7 on users' behalf to help with goals in health, relationships, financ…
Polar launched its AI browser for knowledge work on July 29 and said it raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona, with participants including former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Phia founder Phoebe Gates. The brow…
Tokenless, a San Francisco startup founded by Princeton PhD student Rohit Agarwal and UC Berkeley alumni Andrew Liu and Kevin W., has launched an LLM router that begins each request on multiple models, observes their ear…
Alphabet increased head count by 11,830 employees to 198,933 between June 2025 and June 2026, while Meta's workforce shrank by over 2,000 to 75,472 as of June 30, 2026, a 1% year-over-year decrease. The changes come as B…
Arm Holdings forecast second-quarter revenue of $1.38 billion, above Wall Street's $1.34 billion estimate, driven by surging demand for its chip blueprints in AI data centers. The British chip designer also beat first-qu…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature an AI Stage from October 13–15 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, presented by Google for Startups, focusing on AI business models, security gaps, and new job categories. Speakers in…
Meta Platforms raised its 2026 capital expenditure floor to $130 billion from $125 billion, with a new range of $130 billion to $145 billion, as it intensifies AI data center investments. The company also lifted its full…
XAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, a speech-to-speech model that scored 82.9% on Artificial Analysis' benchmark, up from 75.7% for version 1.0 and ahead of GPT-Realtime-2.1 at 79.1%. The model costs $0.08 per minute…
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, stepped down citing health issues, then rejoined OpenAI to lead a top-level team focused on accelerating internal research, including recursive self-improvement. OpenAI confi…
SalesPatriot (YC W25), an AI-native supply-chain platform for aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense sectors, is hiring Field Deployment Engineers (FDEs) to work onsite with customers and at its San Francisco HQ…
Elio, a sensor startup founded by former Meta AR/VR engineers Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, raised $21 million in Series A funding co-led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora, with participation from Kevin Weil and Scri…
Runlayer sued Rippling on July 28, alleging that a customer evaluation gave Rippling access to its complete application source code and other confidential systems before Rippling developed a competing gateway for AI agen…