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Reset filtersReports suggest OpenAI may be facing renewed scrutiny over its AI agents, with the Wikimedia Foundation raising concerns about potential unauthorized data access.
Reporting: inc42.com
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OpenAI researcher Alexander Embiricos will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, just days after the launch of Dots, a new AI product.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Tab has emerged from stealth with a $300 million valuation and an AI agent that books flights and calls businesses directly within iMessage.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Artificial intelligence companies are pivoting from selling intelligence as a standalone product to owning entire vertical markets, according to a report by Inc42.
Reporting: inc42.com
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Mistral has closed a €3 billion Series D, the largest AI-focused funding round in Europe to date.
Reporting: sifted.eu
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Leo AI founder and CEO Maor Farid argues that the era of easy AI funding is over.
Reporting: news.crunchbase.com
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Tab has emerged from stealth with a $300 million valuation and an AI agent that books flights and calls businesses via iMessage.
Reporting: techjuice.pk
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AMD has acquired AI world-model startup World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock, just seven months after leading a $1 billion funding round at a $5 billion valuation.
Reporting: inc42.com
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His remarks come alongside Prosus’s decision to increase its fintech investments, which could suggest changing priorities in capital allocation.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model small enough to run on a smartphone.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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The round, if completed, would join a series of high-profile AI funding deals this year.
Reporting: cn.ibtimes.com
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Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a large language model built on a mixture-of-experts architecture.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Sigil Wen, a Silicon Valley-backed AI founder, has launched Underdog, an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable of everyday tasks.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Hark, an AI lab, has released a personal assistant designed to compete with Instinct AI, Muse, and Dots, positioning itself as a privacy-focused alternative.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Pune-based AI startup CurvetAI has raised ₹6 crore in a pre-seed round led by Merak Ventures.
Reporting: analyticsinsight.net
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Foundations Design and Engineering has launched a service to match businesses with AI founders-for-hire.
Reporting: geekwire.com
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The startup argues that LLM-based approaches may not fully meet the needs of enterprise decision-making, according to TechCrunch.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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DeepSeek is negotiating to nearly double its latest funding round to as much as $14.9 billion, sources told CNBC.
Reporting: msn.com
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Vinod Khosla has placed an early marker on Wajo, the AI agent startup founded by a former DeepMind engineer.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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ElevenLabs has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Karnataka government to provide voice AI services, focusing on safety frameworks.
Reporting: yourstory.com
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