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Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying cust…

Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet

The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.…

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the funding round, sources say.…

Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said on stage.…

OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move…

OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit

OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.…

OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI…

Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta

If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can…

Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out

Anthropic's latest advert is stirring up high emotions — which is undoubtedly what it was designed t…

The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone

Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highl…

Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers

Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted w…

DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontie…