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OpenAI Launches Presence for Enterprise Voice Agents and Chatbots
OpenAI announced Presence on Wednesday, a new enterprise product built to let large companies deploy and manage AI agents that handle customer service calls, chatbots and internal workflows.
Passionfroot Secures USD 15M to Grow U.S. Creator Marketplace
Passionfroot has closed a $15 million Series A led by Insight Partners, money the Berlin startup plans to use to push into the U.S. market.
Japan’s AI Boom Benefits Toilet Maker and MSG Giant
Toto, the company better known outside Japan for its high-end toilets, has become an unlikely name in the country's chip-driven boom. So has Ajinomoto, the seasoning maker behind the MSG in kitchens worldwide.
Samsung eyes billion-euro stake in Europe's Mistral AI
Samsung is in talks to put up to one billion euros into Mistral AI, the Financial Times reported, a deal that would value the French startup at around 20 billion euros.
Glow Launches With USD 1.2B Valuation, Uses AI From Anthropic and Google
Glow came out of stealth on Wednesday with a $1.2 billion valuation, having raised $180 million in an all-equity Series A.
Synthesia’s AI Platform Moves From Training Videos to Live Coaching
Synthesia has spent five years selling companies on a simple idea: skip the film crew, skip the actors, and let AI generate a training video from a script in minutes.
Meta Tests 'StoryKit' AI App for Children's Bedtime Stories
Meta has built an app that writes your kid's bedtime story for you, and it wants you to know that's a feature, not a shortcut. The app is called StoryKit, and 9to5Mac spotted it listed on the App Store before Meta confirmed anything publicly.
Google launches cost-effective AI security model Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Google rolled out Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday, a security-focused AI model built to hunt down and patch software vulnerabilities without the price tag of rival systems.
Zillow's AI strategy: Build before measuring ROI, own the chat layer
Zillow doesn't get a tidy, single conversation with the people who use it. Someone browses listings on their phone in March, talks to a loan officer in June, and sits down with a real estate agent in August, and Zillow expects to remember all of it.
Monitoring Beats Testing for Catching AI Failures, Experts Say
A single customer support conversation with an AI agent can read as flawless when scored on its own, then turn out to be a symptom of a product that's failing at scale.
Bristol Myers Squibb Builds SuperDuperPOD on NVIDIA Vera Rubin
Bristol Myers Squibb is putting eight NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to work on drug discovery, a second SuperPOD deployment that the pharmaceutical company says will be the most powerful and energy-efficient AI cluster in life sciences.
OpenAI's Miles Wang in Talks for USD 2B AI Drug Discovery Startup
Miles Wang is leaving OpenAI to start a company that applies AI models to drug discovery, according to four people familiar with his plans.
DeepSeek Seeks More Capital Weeks After USD 7B Funding Round
DeepSeek closed a $7 billion funding round in late May at a $52 billion valuation. Barely two months later, the Hangzhou-based AI lab is back in front of investors, this time talking about a pre-money valuation of roughly $71 billion.
Anthropic's New AI Ad Campaign Draws Criticism for 'Creepy' Tactics
Anthropic released a new ad this week called "There's Hope in Hard Questions," and it's already becoming a case study in how not to sell an AI product.
Reflection Signs USD 1 Billion Compute Deal With Nebius
Reflection AI has locked in a $1 billion compute deal with Nebius, giving the open-model startup access to Nvidia's newest chips through the European infrastructure company.
1Password expands into AI cost management as model pricing diverges
1Password launched a new feature Tuesday called AI Spend and Consumption Management, built into its existing SaaS Manager platform.
PixVerse Hits USD 2B Valuation With 150M Registered Users
Singapore-based PixVerse closed an extended Series C round worth $439 million, pushing its valuation past $2 billion.
PixVerse Raises USD 439 Million at Over USD 2 Billion Valuation
PixVerse has closed a $439 million Series C extension, pushing its valuation past $2 billion, the Singapore-based video generation startup told TechCrunch.
Nous Research in Talks for New Funding at USD 1.5 Billion Valuation
Nous Research is closing in on a new funding round that would value the AI startup at $1.5 billion, according to three people familiar with the deal. Robot Ventures is leading the raise, with USV putting in a sizable check alongside other investors.
Sen. Warren urges Trump admin to expand AI credit after OpenAI letter
Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from the Trump administration. Her focus: a quiet request from OpenAI.
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