Startups & Funding
Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
Character.AI is expanding beyond its chatbot platform to launch c.ai Series, short-form animated videos created with...
The Verge AI
Other Companies
Startups & Funding
Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
Ollama, an open source AI developer tool backed by Benchmark, has raised $65M in funding and grown to nearly 9M users....
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Personal Assistants
Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
Character.AI has launched microdrama productions that leverage its core technology by allowing users to interact with...
TechCrunch AI
Personal Assistants
FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer
FL Studio 2026 has upgraded its Gopher AI chatbot from a simple instruction guide to an active assistant that can...
The Verge AI
Startups & Funding
Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
Nandan Nilekani has stepped down from his general partner role at Fundamentum as the venture capital firm launches its...
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Coding Co-pilot
Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost
Databricks benchmarked the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 on its codebase and found it matched Anthropic's Opus 4.8...
The Decoder
Ethics & Regulation
The $28 Million Mistake That Inspired Estonia’s AI ‘Fuckup Finder’
Estonia developed an AI system called 'Fuckup Finder' to identify legal errors in government documents after a wording...
Wired AI
Healthcare AI
NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive womb cancer checks
NHS hospitals are implementing an AI-powered blood test to help assess women referred for potential womb cancer,...
AI News
LLM
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B: A Compressed Hybrid MoE LLM Delivering 2.03x Server Throughput at Matched User Throughput
NVIDIA released Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B, a compressed hybrid MoE language model that reduces parameters from...
MarkTechPost
LLM
Datalab Lift vs the Field: How a 9B Schema-First Extractor Compares with NuExtract3, LlamaExtract, Marker, and Docling
Datalab's Lift is a 9B schema-first document extraction tool that converts PDFs and images directly to JSON without...
MarkTechPost
Research & Papers
Robbyant Releases LingBot-VLA 2.0: An Open-Source 6B Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model for Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation
Robbyant has released LingBot-VLA 2.0, an open-source 6B vision-language-action model trained on 60,000 hours of robot...
MarkTechPost
Startups & Funding
Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are investing in AI and health tech startups as part of their diversified investment...
Wired AI
LLM
I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You
The article discusses experiments where AI is used to build and improve other AI systems, demonstrating that advanced...
Wired AI
AI Agents
Nvidia, Hugging Face Collaborate on Open Source Robot Models
Nvidia and Hugging Face have announced a collaboration to develop open source robot models, aimed at improving...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment
General Intuition is leveraging millions of hours of video game data to train foundation models for physical AI, aiming...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet
A CEO argues that video game data could be superior to internet data for training AI models, particularly for helping...
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Startups & Funding
Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents
Prime Intellect, founded in 2024, has raised $130M in Series A funding to enable enterprises to build and train their...
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Startups & Funding
Exclusive: EdVisorly Raises $13.3M Series A To Fix The Messy College Transfer Process With AI
EdVisorly, a Los Angeles-based startup, raised $13.3 million in Series A funding to scale its AI-native platform that...
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Startups & Funding
These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates
The article discusses fast-growing AI startups that are accelerating their revenue growth rates. It highlights that...
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