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Pixel 11 Series Expected to Rival Samsung Galaxy in Price and Performance
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.
Zombie-Ant Fungus Also Thrives in Mosses, DNA Analysis Reveals
A recent study indicates that the parasitic Ophiocordyceps fungus, known for manipulating insects, also inhabits mosses, suggesting a more complex lifecycle.
Jalapeño-Linked Salmonella Outbreak Affects 27 States
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.
FCC Eliminates TV Ownership Cap, Sparking Congressional Authority Debate
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's mRNA Flu Vaccine, mFLUSIVA, Gains FDA Approval for Adults 50+
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.
Hackers Compromise QuickFox VPN Installers to Distribute Malware
For over a year, malicious actors embedded backdoor implants within installers for the Chinese VPN service QuickFox, targeting high-value users.
Ford Unveils Fathom: An Electric Midsize Truck Starting at $28,350
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' 3-in-1 Paw Ointment Recognized by 2026 Pet Innovation Awards
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 AI Leadership Undergoes Significant Restructuring Amidst Internal Pressures
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.
SoftBank Reports Q1 Profit Exceeding Expectations, Driven by Intel Gain
SoftBank's first fiscal quarter saw profits surpass market predictions, primarily due to a significant increase in its Intel investment, while its Vision Fund benefited from ByteDance's rising valuation.
Adobe Launches ChatGPT Plugin, Integrating Over 70 Creative Tools
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.
Fossil Fuel Giants Pivot to Data Center Power Amid AI Boom
Chevron and Williams are making significant investments in power generation for data centers, signaling a new revenue stream for the fossil fuel industry.
Vulnerabilities in Server Motherboard Controllers Pose Widespread Security Risk
Thousands of enterprise servers are susceptible to backdoor attacks due to newly discovered and persistent vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers (BMCs).
Anthropic's AI Model Adopted False Identities in GitHub Attack Simulation
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.
Malaysia Orders Balaji Srinivasan's Network School to Close
The startup-focused residential community faces a licensing shutdown as its founder pursues a new campus in Kazakhstan.
London Founder House Rejects the Startup Burnout Playbook
Lift House is testing whether ambitious founders can build together without importing Silicon Valley's most punishing work culture.
Altman's School-Drive Podcast Idea Draws Questions About AI and Parenting
A proposed family briefing generated more criticism than enthusiasm, exposing the limits of automating moments built around human attention.
Apple Considers Paid Usage Tiers for Its New Siri AI
Heavy users could buy additional computing capacity through iCloud+ after the assistant's broader rollout this fall.
WhatsApp Tests a Separate Inbox for Offers and Business Updates
Messages from large companies could move automatically after a few hours, reducing clutter in users' main chat timelines.
Ellis AI Raises $10 Million to Modernize Private Credit Operations
Cadre co-founder Ryan Williams is building agents that connect documents, spreadsheets and accounting systems without replacing human judgment.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1 Billion for Demonstration and Commercial Reactors
The financing brings total capital to $4 billion as the company works toward scientific breakeven in 2027.
Dili Raises $21.7 Million for AI Compliance in Infrastructure Projects
The startup is applying automated document review to the permitting and regulatory work behind data centers and other large developments.
ChipAgents Adds $60 Million as AI Moves Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
Eliyan Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With $145 Million Series C
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
Freehand Raises $75 Million for AI Agents Managing Supply Chain Spend
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
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Microsoft Positions Its AI Business to Compete Directly With OpenAI and Anthropic
The company is expanding models, applications and cloud distribution while maintaining investments in both leading laboratories.
Zuckerberg Predicts Billions Will Use Personal AI Agents Within Five Years
Meta is betting that persistent assistants will become a new product layer across messaging, glasses and consumer applications.
Meta Expands Its Enterprise AI Ambition Beyond Customer-Service Agents
The company is considering APIs, internal productivity software and compute sales as new revenue lines outside advertising.
Martha Stewart Co-Founds Hint, an AI Management App for Homeowners
The service combines property records, maintenance schedules and uploaded documents with an assistant that answers questions about a home.
Weave Raises $13.5 Million to Measure the Return on AI Coding Tools
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
Fish Audio Raises $52 Million for Expressive AI Voice Models
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
WhatsApp Adds Voice and Video Calling to Its Web App
The browser version gains calls, screen sharing, reactions and waiting rooms as Meta closes a long-standing gap with its desktop software.
PayPal Leaves Room for a Higher Bid After Stronger Results
CEO Enrique Lores said the payments company would consider an alternative that creates more shareholder value than its current turnaround plan.
eBay and Former Executives Agree to $56 Million Cyberstalking Settlement
The payment resolves a civil case brought by EcommerceBytes writers Ina and David Steiner over a 2019 harassment campaign.
Largest U.S. Grid Plans Temporary Power Cuts for Major Data Centers
PJM Interconnection will begin curtailing facilities of 50 megawatts or more in June 2027 when supply cannot meet demand.
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.
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
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.
Apple Launches MapKit for Automotive
The new software kit lets automakers embed Apple Maps directly into vehicle displays and driving systems.
Glow Emerges From Stealth With $180 Million for Endpoint Security
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.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Elastic Agrees to Acquire Deductive AI
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
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.
Natural Raises $30 Million to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
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.
Whatnot Acquires Shaped for Real-Time Shopping Recommendations
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million for AI-Designed Medicines
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
Visa Introduces AI Financial Assistant for Banking Apps
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
Anthropic Launches Free Claude Plan for Teachers
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
OpenAI Launches the GPT-5.6 Model Family
The Sol, Terra and Luna variants divide frontier capability, balanced professional work and high-volume tasks across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
OpenAI Introduces GPT-Live for More Natural Voice Conversations
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Agave Raises $15 Million to Bring AI Into Construction Financials
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.
Super.com Raises $65 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
Together AI Raises $800 Million at an $8.3 Billion Valuation
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
Queue Raises $12.6 Million to Expand Autonomous Pharmacy Kiosks
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
Omen AI Raises $31 Million to Monitor Coolant Inside AI Data Centers
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
8090 Raises $135 Million as Chamath Palihapitiya Takes the CEO Role
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
Pocket Raises $11 Million for Its Dedicated AI Note-Taking Device
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
Quantifind Raises $200 Million for AI-Powered Risk Intelligence
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
Caplight Raises $16 Million for Private-Market Data and Trading Tools
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
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.
Mirendil Raises $200 Million to Build Self-Improving AI for Scientists
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Salesforce Expands Agentforce Commerce Across the Shopping Stack
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
JustAI Raises $17 Million for Enterprise Marketing Agents
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
Meta Launches $299 AI Glasses in 26 Styles
The EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
AppsFlyer Secures More Than $1 Billion From Digital Advertising Partners
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
Groq Raises $650 Million to Expand Its AI Inference Cloud
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
Architect Labs Raises $24 Million to Speed Custom Chip Design
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
Clair Health Raises $11.6 Million for a Hormone-Tracking Wearable
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
Convey Raises $38 Million to Give Enterprises AI Teammates
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
Genspark Extends Series B to $485 Million at a $2.6 Billion Valuation
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
DeepL Acquires Mixhalo and Opens Silicon Valley Office
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
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.
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Maker Anysphere
Elon Musk's rocket company will pay $60 billion in stock for the AI coding startup, days after its record-setting IPO.
Facebook Adds AI Mode and New Creative Tools
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Fin for $3.6 Billion
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
Meta Begins Unwinding Its $2 Billion Manus Acquisition
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Pursue AI for Physical Engineering
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
Pi Raises $25 Million for Agentic Product Security
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
Campground Raises More Than $2.2 Million for Social Impact Operations
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
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.
Waymo Buys Apple's Former Vehicle Test Site for $220 Million
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.
Apple Introduces Siri AI Across Its Device Ecosystem
The rebuilt assistant adds conversational interaction, visual understanding and deeper control across apps and personal context.
OpenAI Files Confidentially for a U.S. Initial Public Offering
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
Supabase Raises $500 Million at a $10.5 Billion Valuation
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
Generalist AI Raises $400 Million for Robot Foundation Models
The physical AI company reached a $2 billion valuation as it trains software intended to work across different robots and real-world tasks.
Sekai Raises $26 Million as Users Generate Millions of Mini Apps
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
OpenAI Extends Codex With Tools for More Professional Roles
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
ZoomMate Launches as an Agentic Assistant for Workplace Tasks
The product combines enterprise search, generated deliverables and actions across connected applications.
Anthropic Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
Drafted Raises $16 Million to Use AI in Home and Floor Plan Design
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8 for Long-Running Professional Work
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
Cognition Raises More Than $1 Billion at a $26 Billion Valuation
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Hark Raises More Than $700 Million for Personalized AI Models and Hardware
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
Anthropic-Backed Services Venture Acquires Fractional AI
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
Exa Raises $250 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
Socket Raises $60 Million to Secure Open-Source Software in the AI Era
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
Google Expands Universal Cart and AI Tools for Retailers
The commerce update connects shopping across Search and Gemini while giving merchants new visibility and checkout controls.
Figma Design Agent Brings Prompted Creation Onto the Canvas
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
Status AI Raises $17 Million for an Interactive Social Network
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Google Unveils Gemini Spark as a Persistent Personal Agent
The opt-in assistant runs in a dedicated cloud environment and can work across Google services while asking before high-stakes actions.
Apple Previews AI-Powered Accessibility Upgrades
The updates extend VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and captioning while adding eye-based wheelchair controls for Vision Pro.
Google Adds Voice Workflows and a New Pics App to Workspace
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
Google DeepMind Licenses Contextual AI Technology and Hires Researchers
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
Anthropic Acquires Developer-Tools Startup Stainless
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Recursive Superintelligence Emerges With $650 Million
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
Mind Robotics Adds $400 Million to Scale AI-Powered Factory Robots
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.
Outmarket AI Raises $17 Million to Automate Insurance Brokerage Work
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
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.
Monaco Raises $50 Million for an AI-Native Sales Platform
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
Android Intrusion Logging Gives Spyware Investigators Better Evidence
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
Fazeshift Raises $17 Million for Autonomous Accounts Receivable
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
Corgi Raises $160 Million at a $1.3 Billion Valuation for Business Insurance
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
RadixArk Launches With $100 Million Seed Round to Expand SGLang
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
Altara Raises $7 Million to Bring AI Into Physical Science Workflows
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default ChatGPT Model
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
Sierra Raises $950 Million as Enterprise AI Competition Intensifies
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
Netomi Raises $110 Million as Accenture and Adobe Back Agentic Customer Service
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
Standard Intelligence Raises $75 Million for Computer-Use Models
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
OpenAI Adds Advanced Account Security for High-Risk Users
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
Parallel Raises $100 Million to Build Web Infrastructure for AI Agents
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
Scout AI Raises $100 Million to Develop Autonomous Systems for Defense
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations for Back-Office Work
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
Stripe Gives AI Agents a Link Wallet for Controlled Purchases
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
Augment Acquires Merlin to Expand Supply Chain AI
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
Era Computer Raises $11 Million to Build a Software Layer for AI Gadgets
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
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.
Adobe CX Enterprise Brings Agentic AI to Customer Operations
The new system connects marketing data, content, analytics and automated work across the customer lifecycle.
Loop Raises $95 Million to Expand Predictive AI Across Supply Chains
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
TextQL Raises $17 Million as Blackstone Backs Enterprise Data Agents
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
Glydways Raises $170 Million for Dedicated-Lane Transit Pods
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
Hilbert Raises $28 Million to Turn Growth Data Into Automated Decisions
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
Slash Raises $100 Million and Reaches a $1.4 Billion Valuation
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
Salesforce Launches Headless 360 for AI Agent Development
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
Spiral Therapeutics Raises $27 Million and Adds an Inner Ear Partnership
The clinical-stage company will advance its lead hearing program while working with Advanced Bionics on therapies delivered alongside cochlear implants.
Sanas Acquires Real-Time Voice Startup Tomato.ai
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
Primepoint Labs Discloses $10 Million Seed Round for Construction AI
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
OpenAI Acquires Personal Finance Startup Hiro
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
Visa Intelligent Commerce Connect Gives Merchants an Agentic Sales Layer
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
Aria Networks Launches With $125 Million for AI-Native Networking
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
Noon Launches With $44 Million to Close the Gap Between Design and Code
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
daydream Raises $15 Million for an AI-Native SEO Agency
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
Miravoice Raises $6.3 Million for AI-Led Voice Research
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
OpenAI Acquires Technology Talk Show TBPN
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
Nexus Raises $4.3 Million to Put Governed AI Agents in Business Teams
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
Sycamore Launches With a $65 Million Seed Round for Enterprise AI Agents
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
Google Expands Search Live to More Than 200 Markets
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
Google Launches Lyria 3 Pro for Longer AI-Generated Music
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
Doss Raises $55 Million to Build an AI-Native Operations Cloud
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
Google TV Adds Gemini Visual Answers and Sports Briefs
The television interface can now show richer responses, narrated topic explorations and quick updates for sports fans.
Cloudflare Dynamic Workers Run AI-Generated Code Without Containers
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Eragon Raises $12 Million for a Prompt-First Enterprise Operating System
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
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.
Sunday Raises $165 Million to Put Its Memo Robot Into Homes
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Meta Adds AI Listings and Auto Replies to Marketplace
Facebook Marketplace can now draft sale listings, suggest local prices, answer buyers and summarize a seller's activity.
Replit Raises $400 Million as Valuation Triples to $9 Billion
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
Manufact Raises $6.3 Million to Build Infrastructure for MCP Developers
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.
AgentMail Raises $6 Million to Give AI Agents Their Own Inboxes
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
Nexthop AI Raises $500 Million for Data Center Networking
The Santa Clara company reached a $4.2 billion valuation as large AI systems create demand for faster, more flexible connections between processors.
Kai Emerges With $125 Million for Security Across IT and Industrial Systems
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
Zoom Opens No-Code Platform for Custom Workplace AI Agents
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
Meta Acquires AI-Agent Network Moltbook
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
Denki Raises $4.1 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Audits
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
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.
Ayar Labs Raises $500 Million to Scale Optical Links for AI Chips
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
14.ai Raises $3 Million for an AI-Native Customer Service Agency
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
Harbinger Acquires Autonomous Driving Company Phantom AI
The commercial vehicle maker gains driver-assistance software and a new licensing relationship with ZF.
Kana Launches With $15 Million for Configurable Marketing Agents
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Build Spatial Intelligence Models
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
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.
Simile Raises $100 Million to Build AI Simulations of Human Behavior
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
Intuit Launches Construction Edition for Its Enterprise Suite
The industry-specific system adds project accounting, proposals, invoicing and an AI management agent.
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.
Fundamental Emerges With $255 Million for Enterprise Data Models
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
Lunar Energy Adds $232 Million to Scale Home Batteries and Virtual Power Plants
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
Bedrock Robotics Raises $270 Million for Autonomous Construction
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
