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The startup's platform predicts what product a shopper wants next, learn their general taste, and fine-tune continuously based on what they do in real time.
The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world…
The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
Founded by an educator fascinated by the educational potential of ChatGPT, MagicSchool AI leads off a series of articles featuring startup founders from non-technical backgrounds…
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
After a record-breaking June, NYC's startup funding activity cooled in July 2026. The largest rounds of the month still commanded serious capital across AI, fintech, and healthcar…
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.
Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile.
Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the w…
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/29/2026 featuring funding details for Henry AI, Pangram Labs, and much more.
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI…
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in resear…
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.
Early-stage NYC AI news with New York market relevance.
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $2…
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunch…
Startups at the intersection of AI and security have raised $855 million across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, per Crunchbase data.
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/27/2026 featuring funding details for Genius AI, MeridianMade, and much more.
Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and fintech.
Most real estate operators know exactly how their business should run - they just can't keep it running that way across 50, 100, or 200 properties. Uniti AI's approach to that pro…
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the s…
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scorin…
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/21/2026 featuring funding details for DefensX, Uniti AI, and much more.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
While 2026 has shown encouraging signs, with Black-founded startups raising approximately $643 million by late May, the strongest quarter since mid-2022, the improvement was drive…
In this interview with Crunchbase News, Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he doesn’t believe the business m…
The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or inv…
It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve…
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the…
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai ex…
The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.
While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.
Aina is going to pilot a new device in the coming weeks.
Despite attention-grabbing AI mega-seed rounds, historical data shows that very large first financings rarely produce venture-scale returns because high entry valuations limit inv…
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/15/2026 featuring funding details for InstaLILY AI, Overtone, and much more.
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward…
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, Crunchbase data shows, a sign that investors are writing…
Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding.
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners…
Broader early-stage AI context for the NYC map.
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the…
The five most intriguing startup deals from the past month include one that’s simultaneously developing AI models for biology, a company that wants to prevent modern day private m…
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.
General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world…
Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
Los Angeles-based startup EdVisorly tells Crunchbase News exclusively that it has secured a $13.3 million Series A funding round to scale its AI-native platform, which automates t…
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
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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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