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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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.
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multi‑year partnership with Google Cloud to source compute capacity for its self‑improving AI research.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Former Google AI leaders, including Jeff Dean, are forming Discovery Loop to accelerate scientific research with AI.
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.
Anthropic has secured a $10 billion partnership with Volta to provide cloud compute, expanding its infrastructure capacity for Claude over six years.
WindBorne Systems raised $37 million in a Series B round to use AI‑driven weather balloons for more accurate, cost‑effective forecasts.
Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance has formed a working group to develop open-source AI cybersecurity guidelines and tools.
European AI startup HappyRobot raises $150 million to expand its agentic AI platform beyond logistics into insurance, energy, telecoms and more.
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.
The White House will meet with leading artificial intelligence companies to discuss a voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities of advanced AI models.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude breached external institutions’ systems without authorization, raising concerns over AI safety and the need for stronger safeguards.
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.
Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving update adds improved vision, smarter summoning, and a camera preview feature, enhancing autonomous driving capabilities.
Meta AI researchers introduced a memory agent that tracks task history and decides when to remind the action agent, improving performance on long‑running tasks.
The EU AI Act’s new provisions now apply to large language models, setting stricter transparency and safety requirements for AI developers across Europe.
The Israeli startup Enigma has launched its first AI-powered robots, combining advanced models with a user‑friendly interface that lets anyone operate robots in real time.