Business & Productivity
Artificial Intelligence Shakes Up Silicon Valley's Unwritten Venture Capital Rule
Venture capital firm Benchmark acknowledges that the traditional principle of investors not funding rival comp…
NewsScarlet raises $50 million to accelerate certification of AI-based medical devices
Scarlet, a company specializing in certification of software-based and AI medical devices, has raised $50 mill…
NewsA "non-text" AI model reaches a $7.5 billion valuation in just a few weeks
Startup TypeSafe has captured the tech industry's attention with Jev, an AI model that departs from the classi…
NewsAI chip startup Etched could be valued at over $40 billion
Just months after its last major funding round, Etched is reportedly fielding investment offers that would dou…
NewsOpenAI Introduces Visual Ads in Its Image-Generation Tools
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new advertising format, embedded directly into the output of its image-generat…
NewsTrump Launches "Super Intelligence Force": A New Step in AI Regulation
The Trump administration has announced the creation of a task force dedicated to overseeing advanced artificia…
NewsOpenAI Dismisses Three Safety Researchers Following Internal Investigation
OpenAI has decided to part ways with three researchers specializing in AI safety, after an internal investigat…
NewsGoogle testing a feature that lets Gemini make phone calls to businesses on your behalf
Google is expanding its AI assistant's capabilities, allowing Gemini to place phone calls to businesses instea…
NewsElevenLabs: Companies Should Tell Customers When They're Talking to an AI Bot
ElevenLabs' CEO discusses profit margins, IPO plans, and the ethical dilemma of transparency as AI voices take…
NewsAnthropic and Nvidia Bet on Biotech: $140 Million for Basecamp Research
A British startup using artificial intelligence to speed up drug discovery has secured a massive $140 million …
NewsEnveda raises $311 million to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery
Biotech startup Enveda has secured $311 million in funding, reaching a $2 billion valuation, to develop nature…
NewsSnorkel AI Triples Valuation to $3.5 Billion Amid Surging Demand for AI Training Data
Startup Snorkel AI has raised a $350 million funding round, reaching a $3.5 billion valuation, as AI companies…
NewsAnthropic launches Opus 5.5: top-tier performance at lower prices
Anthropic has introduced Opus 5.5, the latest model in the Claude family, promising superior performance at mo…
NewsOpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna: cheaper models with fewer errors
OpenAI has introduced two new models, Sol and Luna, promising lower costs and reduced error rates, both descri…
NewsGoogle launches Googlebook at $899, a laptop built around the Gemini assistant
Google is betting on a new kind of laptop, designed from the ground up for artificial intelligence, in which G…
NewsMeta strikes again: AI assistant Muse outpaces ChatGPT at mobile launch
Meta's new AI agent, Muse, is racking up more downloads and daily active users in the US and Canada than ChatG…
NewsMagentic Raises $18 Million to Automate Industrial Operations with AI Agents
Magentic, a startup specializing in AI-powered "digital workers" for industrial companies, has closed an $18 m…
NewsTrump proposes renaming artificial intelligence and creating an "AI Force"
The U.S. president announced he wants a new name for AI and the creation of a dedicated force for the technolo…
NewsOpen-Source AI Regains Ground: Europe Bets on Technological Sovereignty and Homegrown Infrastructure
A new Mozilla report shows that open-source and open-weight models have moved past the experimental phase, bec…
NewsVantora, formerly UP.Labs, raises $100 million to build "physical AI" startups
US company UP.Labs has rebranded as Vantora and secured $100 million in funding, pivoting decisively toward ar…
NewsDario Amodei proposes to "pace the frontier" of AI, but the plan is already facing criticism
Anthropic's CEO wants coordination among AI labs in democratic countries and independent safety evaluators, bu…
NewsNew AI model from a ChatGPT co-inventor is generating excitement among developers worldwide
Jev, a model developed by one of ChatGPT's original creators, promises a faster and cheaper alternative for in…
NewsCourt Documents Reveal: Microsoft Executive Called AI Data Scraping "the Greatest Theft of Labor in History"
Unsealed court filings show that Microsoft internally acknowledged the problematic nature of OpenAI's data col…
NewsHuawei Fast-Tracks New Ascend 960DT AI Chip in Direct Challenge to Nvidia
The Chinese manufacturer is moving up its timeline for the Ascend 960DT AI chip, now scheduled for the first q…