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Naïve raises $28.5M to let AI agents spin up and run entire companies
The startup signed 30,000 developer customers within months by packaging incorporation, payments, and infrastructure behind one API.
Ditto raises $9.2M to replace dating-app swiping with AI matchmaking
The UC Berkeley dropouts behind Ditto match college students weekly via iMessage — 150,000 signups and one date per Wednesday at 7 PM.
Mirendil signs $100M+ Google Cloud deal to train self-improving AI
The seed-stage startup, founded by Anthropic alumni, is spending roughly half its funding on TPUs and Nvidia GPUs to chase recursive self-improvement.
Ex-Spotify engineers raise $10M for Malachyte, bringing Vector AI to e-commerce
The team behind 90% of Spotify's recommendations wants to rebuild online storefronts around real-time intent, not purchase history.
Suno adds song watermarking and download limits as lawsuits pile up
The AI music startup, fresh off a $400M Series D, is trying to placate labels suing it on three continents.
Google's $15B India data center project faces water and wildlife pushback
The Visakhapatnam build is Google's largest AI infrastructure bet in India, and local objections are mounting before construction begins.
Jeff Dean exits Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI-for-science startup
The 30th Google employee is leaving after 27 years, taking three top researchers with him to automate the experimental loop.
Google promotes Hassabis to Alphabet chief scientist in DeepMind reshuffle
Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over day-to-day AI leadership as Jeff Dean departs to launch a new AI research company backed by Google.
Anthropic builds custom silicon team to design its own AI chips
The Claude maker is hiring chip engineers and reportedly scouting Samsung as a fab partner, joining OpenAI and Google in vertical hardware moves.
WindBorne raises $37M Series B to sell AI weather forecasts beyond government buyers
The balloon-based forecasting startup hit a $250M post-money valuation as it pushes AI weather models into commercial markets.
AMD data center revenue doubles to $6.7B as AI demand overtakes gaming
The Data Center segment now accounts for 58% of AMD's business, while gaming revenue slid 31% to $779M year-over-year.
Anthropic signs $10B cloud deal with Volta for Norway data center
The six-year contract sends Claude compute to a 133 MW Nvidia Vera Rubin facility built with crypto miner Bitdeer.
Musk spends nearly half of Tesla earnings calls on AI and robots
A seven-year transcript analysis shows Musk now talks about AI, robotaxis, and Optimus nearly 50% of the time — up from 15-20% in 2022.
Spotify adds Merlin to AI remix and covers product, bringing 30,000 labels
The independent-label licensing group joins Universal Music Group in Spotify's opt-in, paid AI covers and remixes catalog.
Hollywood quietly runs on AI as Netflix pays $587M for Affleck's startup
Netflix says 300 shows now use generative AI, and Ben Affleck's $587M exit signals Hollywood's tech shift is already here.
Runware ships Sonic Inference Pod, a modular AI data center in a box
The startup has 10 pods running across three continents and 160 power sites lined up, betting distributed compute beats hyperscaler megaprojects.
Ati Robotics bets on India assembly as FCC bans Chinese humanoids
The Bangalore-based startup already runs several hundred robots at 50-plus US customers, with one model at less than 5% Chinese parts.
EON raises $10.75M to link data centers with orbital laser network
Endeavor Optical Networks wants to replace undersea fiber with a 20-satellite laser mesh targeting 2.4 Tbps between continents.
Reddit moderators fight AI-driven spam as chatbots make the site search's top citation
Reddit was the most-cited domain by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Mode in May, drawing a wave of covert brand promotion.
Mistral eyes $23B valuation as US export limits push Europe to open-weight AI
Revenue up twentyfold, a fresh raise in the works, and a market shift toward open-weight models has repositioned the French lab.
Palantir posts $1.9B quarter, Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'
Revenue jumped 93% year-over-year as CEO Alex Karp accused OpenAI and Anthropic of trying to capture their customers' means of production.
OpenAI's first influencer luxury retreat draws backlash online
The company flew creators to upstate New York for beekeeping and ChatGPT Work tutorials. Commenters were less charmed.
DesignArena raises $7.9M to sell human taste to frontier AI labs
The crowdsourced design-ranking platform hit $60M ARR and 5.3M users by letting labs buy scalable human feedback for image and web outputs.
AWS partners with Superblocks to pull vibe coding inside private clouds
The multi-year deal embeds Superblocks in AWS customer accounts, routing data through Amazon Aurora and Bedrock rather than external providers.
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