Ethics & Regulation
AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
The article discusses concerns about AI-assisted writing tools being adopted in newsrooms under the banner of...
Wired AI
Other Companies
Startups & Funding
The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap
Allbirds, a shoe company, rebranded itself as an AI company and saw its stock price surge sevenfold, exemplifying what...
The Verge AI
Startups & Funding
Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?
The article examines the widening gap between AI insiders and the general public, highlighting major spending and...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Loop raises $95M to build supply chain AI that predicts disruptions
Loop, a San Francisco startup building AI for supply chain disruption prediction, closed a $95M Series C funding round...
TechCrunch Startups
Startups & Funding
SaySo is a new short-form video app that aims to restore users’ trust in news
SaySo is a new short-form video app that addresses user concerns about misinformation and AI-generated content by...
TechCrunch Startups
Startups & Funding
Physical Intelligence shows robot model with LLM-like generalization, flaws included
Physical Intelligence, a US start-up, has introduced π0.7, a robot foundation model that demonstrates compositional...
The Decoder
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
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