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Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
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Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
Deductive AI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Vikram Taneja, head of AT&T Ventures, shares why he believes that while AI has drastically lowered the barrier to building software, it…
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made rea…
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.
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The greatest long-term value in AI will come from companies solving deep technical challenges at the model and infrastructure level rather than application-layer products built on…
Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.
Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by…
Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.
Respond.io, one of Malaysia's startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/15/2026 featuring funding details for Interchecks, Hypha AI, and much more.
So far in 2026, U.S. companies have pulled in nearly 80% of global seed- through growth-stage financing, per Crunchbase data. That’s a sharp divergence from the years leading up t…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/10/2026 featuring funding details for F2 AI, Concentrate AI, and much more.
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
Most investment firms have evaluated hundreds of deals - but when a new opportunity lands, their teams start from scratch anyway, rebuilding models and recreating analysis that al…
Sandstone's Series A comes just six months after a Sequoia-led seed round.
Two out of every five patients prescribed home nursing care in America never actually receive it and the reason has nothing to do with whether clinicians are available. One New Yo…
After a very profitable decade on Microsoft's board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down to focus on his AI drug discovery startup Manus.
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for…
Startup investors were in a spendy mood this week, backing more than a dozen rounds in the multiple hundreds of millions. Of those, the biggest one went to spend-management platfo…
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for…
One in five commercial healthcare claims is processed inaccurately - and the industry's answer so far has been more staff and more AI models trained to fight each other, a dynamic…
The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn't struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren't quite ready.
On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequentia…
Poke, the startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, has become the first AI agent approved for Apple’s Messages for Business platform.
All-in-one software ecosystem provider Scotch is a Denver-based AI-native operating system designed specifically for liquor store owners.
The startup's own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.
Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.
A new AI compliance service sits between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a compliance problem.
Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.
WindBorne benefits from its unique combination of model-building and data collection. The company now has about 400 balloons in flight gathering sensor readings at any given time,…
When AI agents hallucinate up to 70% of financial data points, the outputs become unusable and that's the problem most firms building investment AI are quietly sitting on. A New Y…
The startup has apparently taken down the ads using KC Green's "This is fine" meme.
The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 5/30/26 featuring funding details for Flexpirce, Triomics, Saris AI, and eighteen other deals representing $52.1B in new fun…
"If you're 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you're 19, oh my God, this means you're really good; y…
South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
Europe’s startup ecosystem has matured significantly; its founders are increasingly willing to scale companies domestically instead of immediately looking to relocate to the U.S.
Sesame’s new iOS app brings its conversational AI agents to the public, offering more natural back-and-forth interactions designed to feel less like traditional chatbots and more…
The share of U.S. startup funding going to companies with Black founders in 2025 remained low, even as overall funding ticked slightly higher, Crunchbase data shows.
The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures.
Payroll service provider Remote recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and became cash-flow positive, thanks to a 50% increase in revenue per employee r…
Historically “uninvestable” sectors are getting more opportunities to bring in funding, creating a rare opportunity for specialized founders and investors to disrupt trillion-doll…
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OpenRouter has raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG. Its 5x growth in usage over six months indicates the multi-AI-model future is here.
Human Archive, a startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world…
The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.
Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it.
Along with the usual heavy dose of AI, this week’s list also includes large deals for aerospace and defense, fintech, and retail technology.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 5/21/2026 featuring funding details for Farther, Transient.AI, and much more.
Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expect…
What happens when a Harvard-trained quantum computing researcher nearly dies in a hospital ICU and realizes the staff couldn't fill the shift fast enough? For Douglas Ford, that a…
Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone.
Slapping "AI" on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood's ARK Invest for a…
Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.
Slapping "AI" on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood's ARK Invest for a…
NanoClaw was created as a secure alternative to OpenClaw to assist the Cohen brothers with their AI marketing firm that used agents to do much of the work. But instead of running…
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Anthropic vs. OpenAI: what senior AI buyers are actually doing with their budgets. We analyzed 2,200+ structured discussions with senior AI buyers in 1H’26 and compared the results against our prior studies. Get the breakdown in this free report: https://t.co/o5Mnaef2yA https://t.co/rJoelV44dK
We've released our research paper "Emergence World: A Platform for Evaluating Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Autonomy". The paper explores a critical challenge in AI evaluation: most benchmarks measure performance on short, isolated tasks, while real-world autonomous systems operate
Registration closing soon! The countdown has begun! Registrations for our Summer School will close on 20th June. We're accepting the last few applications before we wrap up the registration process. If you haven't applied yet, this is your chance to be part of an exciting https://t.co/efRIze6dg5
We're going to start posting weekly release notes! This weeks: Cofounder v1.0.9 is live: - Self-editing agents: update an agent's prompt, integrations and skills in chat - Reset your company to a clean slate and re-onboard - Manage recurring Marketing Missions - Cancel a

Inpainting can now reference any image on your canvas. ft. FLORA Team watching NBA Finals🏀🍻 @ mention it in your prompt: type @, pick an image, and the model paints with it as a reference. No more describing the look you want and hoping it works. Keep products, characters, https://t.co/7OmYDATePU

Your hardest fashion workflow problems, solved live. Kate Burmatnova, Forward Deployed Creative at FLORA, is back with a live workshop for fashion and apparel teams. Plus a first look at our Fashion Studio, a new dedicated set of tools built around the work fashion teams do https://t.co/29mmxFpkLX

Last Saturday, we sponsored the Agent Forge AI Hackathon in Singapore 🇸🇬 hosted by @theaibuilders. Over 200 builders created 56 amazing projects, and it was great to see so many teams building with @daytonaio. Congrats to all participants for an incredible event! 🚀 https://t.co/E00oZXouUM
Our CEO & Co-Founder, Satya Nitta, joins @EvanKirstel, one of the world's leading B2B tech influencers and a trusted voice on AI and enterprise technology, for a special interview about Emergence World. The conversation will unpack why the research was launched, what emerged https://t.co/lQFLsTzRA1

Meet our Forward Deployed Creatives. They sit alongside agency and in-house brand teams as those teams adopt generative workflows for the first time. Their job: solve the biggest friction in creative AI adoption, the gap between what FLORA can do and how a team actually works. https://t.co/eCd2l37hrV

Years at Pentagram taught her the craft, and now she's using AI to extend it. Catherine Chung, Forward Deployed Creative at FLORA, walks through the workflows she actually uses: logo iteration, concepting, world building, typography, systematic design. June 22, 12pm EST. Come https://t.co/0szxtYKlkJ
Our CEO, Satya Nitta, was interviewed on @BBC Business Today this morning to discuss Emergence World, our groundbreaking long-horizon study of autonomous AI agents operating in complex simulated societies. The findings reinforce what may be one of the most important challenges

@daytonaio AI Builders meetup hits NYC 🗽 on June 23 powered by @Oracle & @Datadog. Talks from @daytonaio, @Oracle, @datadogdevs, @useblacksmith, and @AnchorBrowser: agent-driven QA, cloud architecture for AI workloads, how AI is reshaping CI, and more. We'll close out the https://t.co/BtDQqSLMi3
Try it today at https://t.co/0A0pIur1Ec !
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Generate and adapt posts for multiple channels, with Cofounder modifying formats and copy depending on that channel's style. https://t.co/zZQETmpWqL
Cofounder uses your ICP & competitors to suggest the right marketing channels. Then, easily connect linkedin, X, instagram, tiktok, reddit, and more to post cross platform. https://t.co/ArpR8d7S6m
Cofounder runs marketing campaigns automatically. Set a goal like "grow LinkedIn engagement" - Cofounder plans the work, drafts it for your approval, and reports back. https://t.co/vXhcUhWwWC
Introducing Cofounder's new marketing department. Cofounder sets up your marketing strategy, generates content (video, image, text), connects to channels, runs automatically, and posts on a schedule. https://t.co/5NgazyfScs

"Build me a Snake game in Vite + React" → game runs inside the chat. "Make it red themed" → the running game updates live. We worked with @CopilotKit to build a generative-UI coding agent backed by @daytonaio sandboxes. Every tool call streams as a live card. So does the https://t.co/gLZaJFV4ou
Emergence World Season 2. Coming soon. In Season 1, we asked a simple question: what happens when autonomous agents are left to govern themselves over time? The results reinforced something we believe is increasingly important. Evaluating AI on isolated tasks tells us very https://t.co/5RErYwWrGo
The AI conversation has focused heavily on bigger models and faster chips. But we've long believed that AI progress will depend on something less visible: better data. Bobby Samuels wrote about this for InfoWorld: we have a “data gap." This is the distance between what models https://t.co/yI7V2qg3Tq

Work product almost never sits in one tidy folder. It is scattered across inboxes, calendars, deal files on SharePoint, CRM records, and shared drives. That's why today we're announcing OAuth Connected Apps for Brightwave. Simply connect your Microsoft 365, Salesforce, https://t.co/6wPYnL3Usj
Glif’s agent has access to 18 image models - you can easily compare all to see which one nails the style you need. Here we gave it an anime source img, asked it to recreate it via text2image, then turn that comparison into a video showing all outputs. Which one came closest? https://t.co/xZfvEytkba
As our community continues to grow, so does our team. We're currently hiring for two exciting roles: • Research Scientist / Research Engineer: https://t.co/Fiheq9CK76 • Senior ML Engineer – Agentic Systems & AI Infrastructure: https://t.co/DOLJRInzK4
Summer School registrations are entering their final phase - applications will close on 20 June. If you haven't registered yet, now is the time to secure your place - https://t.co/M6EKr9BoIH The deadline for Student Support applications officially closed on 5 June. Thank you to
This is an amazing Seedance 2 trick: drawing your camera movements on your input image let's you tightly control any scene. Glif lets you do all of it one chat: 1. generate your scene (with any image model, Glif has most, and writes incredible prompts) 2. draw your camera https://t.co/FyptD5DHJ9

As part of NY Tech Week, FLORA gathered creatives to talk about what it means to create in the generative era, alongside installations by talented artists. Speakers from Hebbia, Art Basel, Bullish, and FLORA. Thank you to everyone who came through. https://t.co/7sHJUgCQ4k
Lastly, we at Trata deeply believe in the value of human judgement. In a future where LLMs continue to improve, our aim is to augment human capabilities and enable a fairer playing field outside of just the largest asset managers. Based on our findings, Analysts - your jobs are
Hedge-Bench tasks are built from real world traces given our proprietary data flywheel and network of actual industry practitioners. No models have seen our solutions during pre-training. Prompts are deliberately short to reflect the communication style of actual professionals.
Within the finance industry, there is a lack of objective measuring around model capabilities outside of rote mechanical work. We mainly see reliance on anecdotal evidence and a growing amount of fearmongering from more vocal personalities on social media. The purpose of
Today, Trata is excited to present Hedge-Bench, the world’s first benchmark focused on evaluating open-ended reasoning in the finance domain. We curated 102 tasks derived explicitly from the reasoning traces of professional hedge fund analysts working with relevant information https://t.co/uwyCqgPdfE
What are cybersecurity buyers prioritizing heading into 2026? We conducted 2,200+ structured discussions with senior cyber buyers to uncover where spend is growing and how vendors are being evaluated Get the free deck here: https://t.co/nwAYu6bSpH https://t.co/xt8ASHfGTT
Glif Hacks: remove unwanted music from any of your AI video clips A ton of video models produce unwanted music for the clips and it can be hard (and expensive!) to solve this with prompts. With Glif, you can just ask the agent to remove your music using SAM. Done in seconds. https://t.co/UONJxOgpzO
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