Startups & Funding
Sector Snapshot: Autonomous Vehicle Funding More Than Triples In 2026 To Hit Record Amount
Autonomous vehicle funding surged in Q1 2026 with multiple multibillion-dollar deals, reflecting investor confidence in...
Crunchbase News
Other Companies
LLM
Qwen Team Open-Sources Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: A Sparse MoE Vision-Language Model with 3B Active Parameters and Agentic Coding Capabilities
Qwen Team has open-sourced Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) vision-language model that uses only 3...
MarkTechPost
Healthcare AI
Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere
OpenProtein.AI, founded by Tristan Bepler and Tim Lu, provides open-source AI models and tools for protein engineering...
MIT News AI
Startups & Funding
Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises
A three-year-old startup focused on AI coding tools for enterprises has reached a $1.5B valuation after raising $150M...
TechCrunch AI
AI Agents
Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project
Luma launches an AI-powered production studio in partnership with the Wonder Project to create faith-focused content,...
TechCrunch AI
Research & Papers
Building Transformer-Based NQS for Frustrated Spin Systems with NetKet
This article describes a technical guide for building Neural Quantum States using Transformer architectures combined...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report
Upscale AI, an AI infrastructure company founded seven months ago, is reportedly in talks to raise a third funding...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught
Physical Intelligence, a robotics startup, has unveiled π0.7, a new robot brain model that can perform tasks without...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
The UK government has launched a $675 million sovereign AI fund to support homegrown AI startups and reduce...
Wired AI
Research & Papers
Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0
Nvidia has released Lyra 2.0, a system that generates large, coherent 3D environments from single photographs for...
The Decoder
AI Agents
India's 1.5 million annual IT graduates face an industry that's moving on without them
India's IT industry is rapidly adopting agentic AI, leaving the country's 1.5 million annual IT graduates unprepared as...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong
InsightFinder raised $15M in funding to help companies monitor, diagnose, and understand where AI agents fail within...
TechCrunch AI
AI Agents
AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
Adobe reports that AI traffic to U.S. retail sites surged 393% in Q1, with a 269% jump specifically in March. AI-driven...
TechCrunch AI
AI Agents
Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games
Roblox has introduced new agentic AI tools designed to assist game creators throughout the entire development process,...
TechCrunch AI
AI Agents
Nvidia Partners with Chip Software Maker to Close Sim-to-Real Gap
Nvidia has expanded its partnership with Cadence Design Systems to improve robot training accuracy and reduce the...
AI Business
Ethics & Regulation
Bytedance rolls out Seedance 2.0 to 100+ countries but keeps the US off the list
ByteDance is rolling out its AI video generation model Seedance 2.0 to over 100 countries, but notably excluding the...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster
Runway's CEO argues that AI technology could enable film studios to produce 50 films for the cost of a single $100M...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Exclusive: GetWhys Raises $5.2M To Help Companies Like Intel And Verizon Better Understand Their Customers
GetWhys, an AI-powered customer intelligence platform based in Boise, Idaho, has raised $5.2 million in funding to help...
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Personal Assistants
Character.AI’s new Books mode turns reading into roleplay
Character.AI launches a new "Books" mode featuring interactive roleplay experiences with over 20 classic public domain...
The Verge AI