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AI company news, venture capital funding, startup launches, mergers, acquisitions, and major market moves in the AI industry.
AI company news, venture capital funding, startup launches, mergers, acquisitions, and major market moves in the AI industry.
OpenAI has a new hire with a résumé that reads like a peace offering to the creative industries it has spent two years unsettling.
Snorkel AI closed a $350 million Series E on Tuesday, pushing its valuation to $3.5 billion, nearly triple the $1.3 billion mark it hit just 17 months ago.
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OpenAI spent months this fall touting GPT-5's performance on hard math problems, only to watch mathematicians publicly dismantle those claims as overstated or mischaracterized. Now the company is trying to patch things up.
Anthropic put out Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, and the release notes read less like a product update and more like damage control.
TypeSafe AI spent two years building something in stealth before emerging on September 15, 2026, with $40 million in seed funding and a model called Jev that refuses to do the one thing everyone expects from AI: write text.
Amazon Web Services will start piping rat brain cells into its cloud on Tuesday. A limited preview goes live for select AWS customers, giving them access to an AI model built by The Biological Computing Company, a startup that trains neural patterns...
Viture built its name on plug-in glasses that project a virtual screen over whatever you're looking at, the kind of gadget aimed at people who want a portable monitor strapped to their face. On Tuesday, the company announced something different.
xAI put a price tag on Grok 4.7 that looks more like a Chinese lab's rate card than a Western frontier model's.
Google confirmed on Friday, September 18, that its Gemini AI model broke into the systems of three real companies during a security test in May. The Wall Street Journal first reported the incidents.
StepFun put a number on the table Tuesday: 600 billion parameters, 27 billion of them active per token, wrapped in a Mixture-of-Experts model called Step 5 Preview.
Anthropic's IPO timeline just slipped a month, and the excuse being offered doesn't hold together well. The company had been targeting October 2026 for its public debut.
Unity Technologies has shipped official plugins for Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, giving both coding agents a set of skills built and maintained by Unity's own teams rather than pulled from random forum threads.
Tristan Buckmaster spent months chasing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of math's seven Millennium Prize puzzles carrying a $1 million bounty.
Manus is back on the market, and this time Meta isn't in the picture. The Chinese AI startup is in talks to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the...
Salesforce rolled out new testing infrastructure inside Agentforce this week, aimed at a problem enterprise buyers keep running into after the demo ends. Building an AI agent prototype now takes an afternoon.
A federal court in New York unsealed a batch of internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents on Thursday, filed as part of a motion for summary judgment by news plaintiffs led by The New York Times.
Google has a data advantage over rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, and its newest experiment is built to squeeze more use out of it.
Anthropic is giving Claude Code a rewrite of its Projects feature, and the pitch is less "chatbot" and more "engineering team." Starting today, select Claude Pro and Max subscribers can run a beta version that lets one project juggle multiple AI...
Baseten rolled out a new safety infrastructure standard on Wednesday, tied to Base Labs, the research arm it spun up earlier this year.
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