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Nvidia Reportedly Invests $5 Billion in Safe Superintelligence
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5
The flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
Etched Raises $300 Million at a $10.3 Billion Valuation
The AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
Google Adds Three Gemini Models for Faster Agent Workloads
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and the restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model target different production requirements.
Fireworks AI Raises $1.505 Billion at a $17.5 Billion Valuation
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
Oak Launches With $60 Million for an AI-Native Identity Operating System
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
Anthropic Launches Free Claude Plan for Teachers
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
Patronus AI Raises $50 Million to Simulate the Worlds Agents Work In
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Kotoba Technologies Adds $10 Million to Expand East Asian Voice AI
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
Seltz Raises $12.5 Million to Rebuild Web Search for AI Agents
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
Atom Computing Raises $100 Million to Advance Neutral-Atom Quantum Systems
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
Bland Raises $50 Million to Expand Its Enterprise Voice AI
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
Ent Emerges With $100 Million to Prevent Risky Actions Before They Happen
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
Apple Extends Intelligence Across Maps, Find My and Apple Cash
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
Judgment Labs Raises $32 Million to Improve AI Agents With Production Data
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default ChatGPT Model
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 for Professional and Scientific Work
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
NeoCognition Launches With $40 Million for Agents That Learn on the Job
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
Anthropic Previews Claude Mythos With a Security-First Rollout
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
Deccan AI Raises $25 Million to Build More Reliable Post-Training Data
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
EPIC Microsystems Raises $21 Million to Tackle AI Data Center Power Loss
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
Apple Introduces AirPods Max 2 With the H2 Chip
The updated headphones add stronger noise control, Adaptive Audio, Conversation Awareness and Live Translation support.
Nvidia Launches Toolkit for Long-Running Enterprise AI Agents
OpenShell, AI-Q and new Nemotron models aim to give companies more control over autonomous software.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4 for Professional and Agentic Work
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
Apple Brings M5 Pro and M5 Max to MacBook Pro
The 14- and 16-inch laptops add faster AI processing, higher storage floors and improved solid-state drive performance.
Apple Updates MacBook Air With M5 Chip and More Base Storage
The new laptop doubles entry-level storage while increasing AI and graphics performance.
SambaNova Raises $350 Million and Signs Multi-Year Intel Partnership
The Palo Alto AI infrastructure company will use the capital to expand its SN50 chip and SambaCloud platform as demand grows for alternatives in inference computing.
Braintrust Raises $80 Million to Measure AI Systems in Production
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
The Biological Computing Co. Raises $25 Million to Develop Neuron-Based Computers
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
Cisco Unveils Silicon One G300 for Large AI Networks
The 102.4-terabit chip is designed to move data across increasingly dense computing clusters.
OpenAI Launches Frontier to Manage Enterprise AI Agents
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
