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Pie, a New York startup, raised $19.5 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to help small businesses optimize for AI search engines like ChatGPT. The company offers growth tools including AI sear…
Psychology Today warns that adults are losing childlike imagination by offloading thinking to AI and prioritizing polished outputs over playful exploration. The article highlights how businesses now pay to reintroduce th…
Warp CEO Zach Lloyd announced at the AI Engineer World's Fair that the company is pivoting to a software factory platform called Oz, which automates the entire software development loop from triage to monitoring. Lloyd b…
AI's role in creative industries is shifting from fear to innovation, with AI systems now generating music, art, and writing that challenge traditional boundaries. This evolution brings opportunities for artists to push …
A Colorado BookTok creator named Anianne is calling out a man named Kyle Cotton for using ChatGPT to turn her personal story idea into a book within days, sparking a debate about AI-generated content and creative ownersh…
British-founded startup Build raised $8.5M in seed funding led by Index Ventures to automate the due-diligence paperwork for data centres and other infrastructure projects. The company claims its AI platform cuts assessm…
Netflix's new 'Wonka' show is facing backlash for using an AI-generated voice of the late actor Gene Wilder, who died in 2016, with the consent of his estate.
Major film festivals including Tribeca and Cannes, along with production company A24 and the Generated Awards, are validating AI creators by showcasing their work, shifting the narrative from fear to recognition in the c…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 announced the Builders Stage agenda, featuring sessions on scaling startups, fundraising, hiring, and AI strategy. Speakers include Gamma CEO Grant Lee, Precedent.vc founder Leah Solivan, and Goog…
Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Gemini Flash enable a new architecture for enterprise multi-agent systems that replaces static prompting with a centralized metadata registry, dynamically injecting schemas and en…
London-founded MDOTM raised $27 million in growth-equity funding led by Expedition Growth Capital to scale its AI platform Sphere, which automates portfolio management and client reporting for banks and asset managers. T…
Martin Scorsese's role as an advisor to AI firm Black Forest Labs has sparked backlash from the Art Directors Guild, which accused the director of betraying human artists. Scorsese's team held a phone meeting with guild …
Money-saving expert Martin Lewis said he is 'losing this battle' against AI-generated scams using his face, voice, and name to trick people into fake investment schemes, with victims continuing to lose significant sums d…
Google Labs launched Dreambeans, an AI-generated media feed that pulls data from users' Google apps to create personalized stories, reminders, and inspiration. The app aims to make AI useful and fun by offering a tailore…
Jamir Nazir's short story 'The Serpent in the Grove' won the Commonwealth short story prize amid accusations of AI-generated content, sparking debate over authenticity in literature. Granta, a literary magazine, withdrew…
TikTok is expanding its search features with Local Feed, AI summaries, and shopping tools, making it a key platform for business discovery. Nearly half of U.S. consumers used TikTok as a search engine in 2026, according …
VioEvo launched a metadata-driven UI for comparing AI image and video models, enabling users to generate polished visuals from prompts, images, clips, or references. The platform offers multiple model routes including Ve…
BNB Chain launched BNB Agent Studio, a platform built with AWS that lets developers create autonomous AI agents in about 15 minutes from a text prompt. The platform integrates identity, payments, hosting and AI capabilit…
A developer at a fashion-discovery startup reduced image generation costs by 90x by switching from Google's Gemini API to running Alibaba's open-source Qwen-Image-Edit model on an RTX 4090 GPU, leveraging FP8 tensor core…
China's Kling AI, a spin-off from Kuaishou Technology, is nearing a US$3 billion fundraising round at an US$18 billion valuation, with Tencent among the investors. The company plans to start its Hong Kong listing process…