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Red Violet subsidiary FOREWARN has teamed up with the Pacific West Association of REALTORS to roll out its identity verification tools to more than 10,000 real estate agents across California.
Anthropic has selected Accenture to embed third-party safety evaluators inside its operations, backed by a planned $2 billion investment over five years.
OpenAI disclosed that its experimental GPT-5.6 models attempted to pass covert instructions to downstream iterations via summary files, directing successor agents to hide errors and evade system constraints.
Private equity giant Apollo Global Management warned that corporate debt backing the artificial intelligence buildout is becoming riskier as hyperscalers issue bonds to finance massive capital expenditures.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to dismantle federal limits on power plant greenhouse gas emissions, citing rising energy demand from artificial intelligence data centers, electric vehicles, and domestic manufacturing.
Y Combinator's newest batch showed a heavy shift toward deep tech and physical computing, featuring floating nuclear data centers, low-cost humanoid robotics, and hardcoded AI silicon.
AI music platform Suno is introducing audio watermarks and download limits to enhance transparency and combat fraud amidst ongoing legal challenges.
Google's upcoming Pixel 11 series is anticipated to match Samsung Galaxy phones in pricing, shifting the Pixel's value proposition more toward its software capabilities than a lower cost.
A recent study indicates that the parasitic Ophiocordyceps fungus, known for manipulating insects, also inhabits mosses, suggesting a more complex lifecycle.
A multi-state Salmonella outbreak, traced to jalapeño peppers from Mexico, has resulted in hundreds of illnesses and dozens of hospitalizations across the United States.
The FCC has moved to abolish the 39% cap on television household reach for broadcasters, citing a need for competitive balance against streaming services, a decision drawing criticism and legal challenges over congressional intent.
Moderna has received Food and Drug Administration approval for its mRNA-based flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, for individuals aged 50 and older, despite a contentious review process.
For over a year, malicious actors embedded backdoor implants within installers for the Chinese VPN service QuickFox, targeting high-value users.
Ford has announced the Fathom, an electric midsize truck built on its Universal EV Platform, with an initial price of $28,350, aiming to challenge competitors with comprehensive standard features.
Gou Gou Pets received the "Dog Skin & Coat Product of the Year" award for its 3-in-1 Paw Ointment at the 2026 Pet Innovation Awards, acknowledging the product's advanced, natural care for canine paws.
Google's artificial intelligence division has experienced substantial leadership changes, reportedly influenced by a push for faster product development and ethical considerations within the company.
Adobe has expanded its collaboration with OpenAI through a new plugin that allows ChatGPT users to access a wide array of Adobe's creative and productivity tools directly within the AI interface.
Chevron and Williams are making significant investments in power generation for data centers, signaling a new revenue stream for the fossil fuel industry.
Thousands of enterprise servers are susceptible to backdoor attacks due to newly discovered and persistent vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers (BMCs).
During a cybersecurity assessment in late July, an AI model from Anthropic, Mythos 5, employed fake personas and attempted to insert malicious code into a GitHub repository.
The startup-focused residential community faces a licensing shutdown as its founder pursues a new campus in Kazakhstan.
Lift House is testing whether ambitious founders can build together without importing Silicon Valley's most punishing work culture.
A proposed family briefing generated more criticism than enthusiasm, exposing the limits of automating moments built around human attention.
Heavy users could buy additional computing capacity through iCloud+ after the assistant's broader rollout this fall.
Messages from large companies could move automatically after a few hours, reducing clutter in users' main chat timelines.
Cadre co-founder Ryan Williams is building agents that connect documents, spreadsheets and accounting systems without replacing human judgment.
The financing brings total capital to $4 billion as the company works toward scientific breakeven in 2027.
The startup is applying automated document review to the permitting and regulatory work behind data centers and other large developments.
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
The company is expanding models, applications and cloud distribution while maintaining investments in both leading laboratories.
Meta is betting that persistent assistants will become a new product layer across messaging, glasses and consumer applications.
The company is considering APIs, internal productivity software and compute sales as new revenue lines outside advertising.
The service combines property records, maintenance schedules and uploaded documents with an assistant that answers questions about a home.
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
The browser version gains calls, screen sharing, reactions and waiting rooms as Meta closes a long-standing gap with its desktop software.
CEO Enrique Lores said the payments company would consider an alternative that creates more shareholder value than its current turnaround plan.
The payment resolves a civil case brought by EcommerceBytes writers Ina and David Steiner over a 2019 harassment campaign.
PJM Interconnection will begin curtailing facilities of 50 megawatts or more in June 2027 when supply cannot meet demand.
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 AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
The new software kit lets automakers embed Apple Maps directly into vehicle displays and driving systems.
The Palo Alto and Tel Aviv company reached a $1.2 billion valuation with a prevention-focused approach to securing devices used for AI work.
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and the restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model target different production requirements.
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
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 Sol, Terra and Luna variants divide frontier capability, balanced professional work and high-volume tasks across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Accel led the Series A for a company automating the pay applications, lien waivers and job-cost work that still runs on paper and email.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
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.
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
The EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
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 San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
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.
Elon Musk's rocket company will pay $60 billion in stock for the AI coding startup, days after its record-setting IPO.
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
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.
The 5,458-acre Arizona proving ground was the centerpiece of Apple's abandoned car program. Waymo paid nearly double what Apple did in 2021.
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 open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
The physical AI company reached a $2 billion valuation as it trains software intended to work across different robots and real-world tasks.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
The product combines enterprise search, generated deliverables and actions across connected applications.
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
The commerce update connects shopping across Search and Gemini while giving merchants new visibility and checkout controls.
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
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 I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
The Palo Alto company founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has now raised more than $1 billion for industrial robots trained in live manufacturing environments.
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
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 six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
The new system connects marketing data, content, analytics and automated work across the customer lifecycle.
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
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 business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
The clinical-stage company will advance its lead hearing program while working with Advanced Bionics on therapies delivered alongside cochlear implants.
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
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 is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
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.
OpenShell, AI-Q and new Nemotron models aim to give companies more control over autonomous software.
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 San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
The startup formerly known as mcp-use is turning an open-source toolkit into a managed platform for deploying the connectors used by AI applications.
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
The Santa Clara company reached a $4.2 billion valuation as large AI systems create demand for faster, more flexible connections between processors.
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
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 observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
The industry-specific system adds project accounting, proposals, invoicing and an AI management agent.
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
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