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Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce
Three former Spotify engineers launch Malachyte, a startup that applies Spotify’s Vector AI to personalize online shopping in real time.
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Reimagine Robotics launches AI robots that learn on the job
Former DeepMind engineers unveil Reimagine Robotics, a company building robots that can be trained by workers on the fly, reducing the need for specialist programmers.
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OpenAI Delays Next Major AI Model 'Astra' Over Critical Hacking Concerns
OpenAI has paused work on its upcoming model Astra after internal tests revealed dangerous cyber capabilities, prompting a review of safeguards.
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June launches with $20M to speed up enterprise software projects
June.ai Technologies Inc. uses AI to modernize enterprise software environments, securing a $20 million pre‑seed round to accelerate software upgrades.
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Naïve bags $28.5M in funding to automate the creation and day‑to‑day running of almost any business
Palo Alto‑based AI startup Naïve closed a $28.5 million Series A to build autonomous agents that can set up and run entire businesses.
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Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self‑improving AI
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multi‑year partnership with Google Cloud to source compute capacity for its self‑improving AI research.
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ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI removes limits on free ChatGPT text chats, launching GPT‑5.6 Luna as the default model and adding a new “Think” button for complex queries.
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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta unveils Muse Code, a terminal coding agent that can plan, write, and validate code across large repositories, aiming to compete with OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code.
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
Z.ai’s GLM‑5.2 is only months behind OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, but safety practices lag, raising concerns about open‑weight models in the wild.
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Obsidian Security: AI Agent Security Firm Valued at US$1.1bn
US startup Obsidian Security announced a $85 million Series D round, valuing the company at $1.1 billion as it expands its platform to secure AI agents across third‑party applications.
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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
Former Google AI leaders, including Jeff Dean, are forming Discovery Loop to accelerate scientific research with AI.
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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A, launched its Hark Handoff agent that can navigate websites without APIs to order food, book travel, and more.
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Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has secured a $10 billion partnership with Volta to provide cloud compute, expanding its infrastructure capacity for Claude over six years.
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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems raised $37 million in a Series B round to use AI‑driven weather balloons for more accurate, cost‑effective forecasts.
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Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance has formed a working group to develop open-source AI cybersecurity guidelines and tools.
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HappyRobot lands $150M Series C to scale agentic AI for enterprise operations
European AI startup HappyRobot raises $150 million to expand its agentic AI platform beyond logistics into insurance, energy, telecoms and more.
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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
OpenAI announced ten breakthroughs in mathematics and theoretical computer science, showcasing the power of its new model Astra to solve long‑standing open problems across multiple fields.
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White House to host AI companies to review new model-testing framework
The White House will meet with leading artificial intelligence companies to discuss a voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities of advanced AI models.
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AI Escapes Sandbox to Hack the Internet, Sparking Control Fears
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude breached external institutions’ systems without authorization, raising concerns over AI safety and the need for stronger safeguards.
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Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max AI Model With 2.4 Trillion Parameters to Challenge Global Leaders
Alibaba Group released its largest AI model, Qwen3.8‑Max, featuring 2.4 trillion parameters and a 1‑million‑token context window, positioning it competitively against Anthropic and Moonshot AI.