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Y Combinator's Startup School drew about 6,000 young founders to San Francisco's Chase Center for panels featuring AI leaders and networking events, with Y Combinator hand-selecting attendees and offering over $25,000 in…
Polar Browser raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona to develop an AI browser that automates hours-long research, recruiting, sales and operations tasks inside users' existing web accounts. The product, built by…
Google's partnership with Chinese AI company Moonshot and its decision to pay for U.S.-based hosting has drawn domestic criticism amid U.S.-China tech tensions, with market pricing showing a 0% probability that Alphabet …
Freight Hero raised a $5 million seed round led by Field Ventures, with Flybridge Capital, Tip Top VC and Front Porch Venture Partners participating, bringing total funding above $6 million. The company plans to expand s…
Moonshot AI has achieved a $35 billion valuation, signaling the market's bet on its long-context-window technology that can process millions of tokens natively, reducing reliance on retrieval-augmented generation. The fu…
Enigma, a physical AI startup founded by two former Unit 8200 officers, emerged from stealth on July 27 with $71 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, and opened 100 of its proprietary robots …
OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is building a 'family of devices' for interacting with its AI models, though he did not confirm reports of a smart speaker launching in 2027 or a wearable device. Brockman …
Nvidia led an $800 million investment in Reflection AI, a startup founded in March 2024 by former DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, which has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation and secur…
Anthropic, the only major frontier AI lab that refused to sign an Nvidia-led open letter defending open-weight AI models, now argues it opposes a ban on such models while advocating restrictions that would effectively ne…
Berlin-based startup telli raised a $15 million seed round led by redalpine to expand its AI agents from phone calls into customer service, sales and support across voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp and email. The company, foun…
Amazon is gutting its in-house AI division, scaling back most of its Nova AI models and reorganizing development teams after its large language models failed to compete with rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Blo…
Cyera, a data-security firm, has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for about $1bn in a cash-and-stock deal, roughly $700m of it in cash, to secure non-human identities used by AI agents. The deal, the largest yet in the A…
Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement research, using AI systems to help create better AI models, according to reporting by The Information on Wednesday. Weng left OpenAI in November 20…
Anthropic, the AI safety-focused startup co-founded by CEO Dario Amodei, faces a growing revolt across Silicon Valley as partners and developers accuse it of regulatory capture, product cannibalization, and hypocrisy. Th…
Martha Stewart has co-founded Hint, an AI-powered home maintenance app that analyzes soil quality, air quality, and public property records to provide personalized insights. The app is available on iOS and coming soon to…
A developer's 12-month cost audit of Trendvesting, an AI signal-intelligence platform for equities and options, reveals that production AI side projects cost far more than API pricing pages suggest, with tokens never bei…
Disney is dropping Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and several other AI coding tools in the US in August, according to an internal message viewed by Business Insider, and plans to adopt OpenAI's Codex coding tool. Disney will…
Pangram Labs Inc. raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures to improve its AI detection software for text and images, bringing its total funding to nearly $13 million. The company claims its Pangram 4 de…
Fiverr International shares plunged over 20% on Wednesday after the freelance marketplace reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $97.78 million, missing analyst estimates of $100.38 million, and earnings-per-share of $0…
Martha Stewart, Yih-Han Ma and Kyle Rush launched Hint nationwide on July 29, a free iPhone app that uses AI to organize property records, maintenance schedules and home paperwork. Stewart owns equity and works on the ap…