Startups & Funding
Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech
Sarvam, a Bengaluru-based AI startup, has achieved unicorn status with a $234 million funding round led by HCLTech,...
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Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Anthropic Forced to Disable New Models by US Government
Anthropic has been forced to disable new AI models by the US government following the release of two powerful new...
AI Business
Ethics & Regulation
Pokémon Go data helped train AI now linked to military drones
Pokémon Go players' AR scan data was used to train Niantic's spatial AI models, which are now being integrated with a...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities
NewCore has raised $66M in funding to address enterprise security challenges posed by AI agents as they become...
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AI Agents
A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means
An Earth observation satellite successfully located a target autonomously for the first time in April, demonstrating...
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Startups & Funding
Rebellions Aims to Take on Nvidia in AI Inference Chip Battle
Rebellions, a South Korean startup, is developing AI inference chips to compete with Nvidia in the AI infrastructure...
AI Business
AI Agents
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
This Import AI newsletter edition discusses the current state of AI alignment, introduces FrontierCode, and explores...
Import AI
Startups & Funding
Rewriting Your Pitch: SaaS Isn’t Dead, But The Playbook For Founders Is Changing
The article discusses how AI and LLMs are transforming the traditional SaaS business model, requiring founders to shift...
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Startups & Funding
The AI Startup Funding Boom Is Not A Global Phenomenon
U.S. AI startups have captured nearly 80% of global seed through growth-stage funding in 2026, a significant shift from...
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AI Agents
HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China
Huawei launched HarmonyOS 7, positioning it as the beginning of the agent era and capitalizing on Apple's decision not...
AI News
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
Anthropic shutdown sparks sovereignty debate across Europe
The European Commission is evaluating the impact of a US order that shut down Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models...
The Decoder
AI Agents
Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents
Accenture's 2026 Consumer Pulse Research survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries found that 74% of respondents...
AI News
Ethics & RegulationMicrosoft
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of "a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns"
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that concentrated AI power among a few large models could monopolize economic returns...
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Research & Papers
Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs
Flash-KMeans is an open-source, IO-aware GPU implementation of k-means clustering that achieves significant performance...
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AI AgentsMeta
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Meta partnered with Rank One, a Pentagon supplier with former CIA and FBI leadership, to develop face recognition...
Wired AI
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic
The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble
Anthropic's implementation of US export controls resulted in its two most powerful AI models going offline globally on...
AI News
Ethics & Regulation
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
As AI companies conduct mass layoffs affecting tens of thousands of workers, a small group of AI insiders is...
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LLM
Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch
Z.ai launched GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, featuring a 1-million-token context window and two thinking-effort levels...
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Startups & Funding
Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers
Orbio announced a $21 million Series A funding round led by Dawn Capital to support its platform that automates hiring...
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