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Investors are pouring record amounts into the companies building the data, chips, and software powering the next phase of artificial intelligence. The scale of the buildout is now rewriting how private markets price risk.
Apple Upgrade replaces two existing U.S. payment programs and lets eligible customers return, buy or exchange a device at the end of the lease.
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
Day-30 retention across the category sits below eight percent, according to three separate datasets.
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
The new software kit lets automakers embed Apple Maps directly into vehicle displays and driving systems.
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
The linguistics-led startup is training speech systems to handle specialized vocabulary, varied accents and real-time customer conversations.
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
Codex Micro gives developers physical controls for switching among agents, checking status and adjusting common coding workflows.
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
The EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
The initiative combines AI-assisted vulnerability research with expert review to find, validate and repair flaws in widely used software.
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
Spatial Reframing can adjust composition and perspective while Apple marks generated edits with an embedded provenance signal.
The voice input update can improve punctuation, capitalization and formatting while new Siri voices aim for more natural delivery.
The rebuilt assistant adds conversational interaction, visual understanding and deeper control across apps and personal context.
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
The 5,500-acre Arizona proving ground gives Waymo a closed course for expanding robotaxi development.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
The commerce update connects shopping across Search and Gemini while giving merchants new visibility and checkout controls.
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
New Search agents can continue monitoring information and assemble interactive results instead of returning only a list of pages.
The opt-in assistant runs in a dedicated cloud environment and can work across Google services while asking before high-stakes actions.
The updates extend VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and captioning while adding eye-based wheelchair controls for Vision Pro.
The subscription update separates mainstream, professional and higher-compute access as Google expands Gemini across its products.
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
Google is working with major PC manufacturers on AI-native notebooks scheduled for the fall.
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
The update adds campaign automation, an AI Brief for advertiser guidance and new controls for regulated messaging.
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
The Santa Clara startup is combining navigation, communications and computing functions in silicon intended for drones and robots.
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
The Redwood City company will scale access to an FDA-cleared prescription belt designed for people with low bone density.
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
The Rivian spinoff reached a valuation above $1 billion while expanding from small electric vehicles into autonomous delivery systems.
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
The television interface can now show richer responses, narrated topic explorations and quick updates for sports fans.
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
The updated headphones add stronger noise control, Adaptive Audio, Conversation Awareness and Live Translation support.
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Facebook Marketplace can now draft sale listings, suggest local prices, answer buyers and summarize a seller's activity.
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
The new laptop doubles entry-level storage while increasing AI and graphics performance.
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
The entry model adds the A19 chip, MagSafe, a 48-megapixel camera and 256 gigabytes of starting storage.
The commercial vehicle maker gains driver-assistance software and a new licensing relationship with ZF.
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
The reported deal moves future production of the hit series inside Apple Studios.
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
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