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AethexAI, a voice AI startup focused on underserved markets in Africa and the Middle East, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures, with Enza Capital, Dorm Room Fund, Mojo Ventures,

Microsoft has unveiled Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on the OpenClaw framework, designed to bring autonomous agent capabilities to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Announced on June 2, 2026, th

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has joined forces with Black Forest Labs, the German AI image-generation startup, as both a partner and adviser. The 82-year-old filmmaker confirmed to The New York

Uber has rolled out strict internal spending limits on AI tools after the ridesharing company burned through its entire annual artificial intelligence budget in just four months, according to a Bloomb

Amazon was hit with a class action lawsuit on Monday over its Ring doorbell cameras' "Familiar Faces" feature, which uses AI to identify people who regularly visit a user's home. The suit, filed in Se

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a first-of-its-kind state lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of rushing ChatGPT to market while ignoring safety

SpaceX has added a new concern to the risk factors listed in its IPO filing: access to water. The amended prospectus, filed Monday and reported by journalist Sean O'Kane on June 1, 2026, warns prospec

Alphabet is launching an $80 billion stock offering to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence capabilities. The Google parent company announced Monday that it would sell shares worth th

Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark "superchip" at Computex in Taipei on Sunday, marking the company's aggressive push into the $200 billion CPU market with a processor designed specifically for AI-powered

SoftBank Group has unveiled plans to invest up to €75 billion (approximately $87 billion) to expand data center capacity in France. The Japanese conglomerate, which counts both OpenAI as an investor a

Google's new Gemini Spark assistant runs around the clock in the cloud, allowing users to offload their digital tasks without keeping their computer powered on. CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted this dist

Groq, the AI chip startup, is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investors as it pushes deeper into the inference neocloud market, according to sources cited by Axios. Th

AI chip startup Groq is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investor base, according to sources cited by Axios. The San Jose-based company is positioning this funding roun

China's Shanghai Futures Exchange is developing a derivatives market specifically for AI tokens, joining CME Group and the Intercontinental Exchange in building infrastructure for trading AI-related f

Anthropic has closed a massive $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI company for what could be its final private fundraising before going public. The Ser

Amazon Web Services has launched a new version of OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector database specifically designed for AI agents rather than human users. Traditional cloud infra

Vertu, the luxury smartphone maker headquartered in Hong Kong, has unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable device designed specifically for business executives who need to manage company operations on the

Snowflake has committed $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services in a new cloud infrastructure agreement, the companies revealed Wednesday. The deal represents a substantial portion of Snowfl

The application window for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 closes Friday, May 27, giving early-stage founders one final opportunity to gain access to venture capital, international media exposure

Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, recently shared his perspective on the evolving AI security landscape during an interview at a Los Angeles event. Speaking with measured composure, de Souza emph

IBM has entered into a partnership with Formula One and Scuderia Ferrari HP, marking the tech giant's first major motorsport sponsorship. The move comes as F1 has surged in popularity globally, partic

Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of legal AI startup Spellbook, sparked a heated debate in the tech community last month by publicly calling out what he described as a "huge scam" among AI startups

The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily shut down public access to its docket system after discovering that AI technology had been used to recreate the voices of pilots killed in a UPS pl

Spotify is launching AI-powered features that let users generate their own personal podcasts directly within the app. The feature allows subscribers to create podcasts from ideas or custom prompts, wi

Spotify announced a partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG) on Thursday that will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs through a new paid feature. The tool will be exclusive t

Nvidia reported another quarter of record-breaking financial results, with $81.6 billion in revenue for the period ending April 26, representing a 20% increase from the previous quarter. The company's

Anthropic is on track to report its first profitable quarter, with the AI startup telling investors it expects to more than double its revenue to approximately $10.9 billion in Q2, according to the Wa

Clouted, a startup that participated in a16z's Speedrun accelerator program in 2024, has secured $7 million in seed funding to solve a major pain point in social media marketing. The round was led by

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence venture xAI reported operating losses of $6.4 billion against just $3.2 billion in revenue for 2025, according to SpaceX's recently filed IPO documents. The company

A day after Elon Musk's legal challenge against OpenAI fell apart in court, the artificial intelligence company is pushing ahead with plans to go public, according to people familiar with the matter w

A jury rejected Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI's founders and Microsoft, delivering a swift verdict that legal observers saw as validation of what unfolded in court. Musk's case was considered wea

Shay Shwartz spent his teenage years as a hacker earning money from illicit activities, but after getting caught at 16, he decided to redirect his skills toward preventing cyberattacks rather than lau

Google unveiled Gmail Live, a new conversational AI feature for its email platform, during the company's I/O 2026 developer conference. The Gemini-powered tool allows users to interact with their inbo

SandboxAQ has announced a partnership with Anthropic to embed its scientific AI models directly into Claude, aiming to make drug discovery tools accessible to researchers without requiring specialized

Anthropic has completed the acquisition of Stainless, a New York-based startup founded in 2022 by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray. The deal, valued at over $300 million according to The Informatio

A California jury unanimously rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI and its leadership, finding that his lawsuit was filed after the legal deadline expired. The verdict, delivered by nine jurors

Apple is positioning privacy as its competitive advantage in the artificial intelligence race, with a revamped Siri that will give users granular control over how long their conversations are stored.

At this year's commencement ceremonies, graduates are making it clear they're not thrilled about artificial intelligence. Gloria Caulfield, an executive from real estate firm Tavistock Development Com

General Motors has eliminated approximately 600 salaried positions from its information technology division, representing more than 10% of that department, as part of what the automaker describes as a

OpenAI announced another major reorganization Friday, consolidating product divisions and officially putting company president Greg Brockman in charge of all product efforts. In a memo obtained by The

Osaurus, a new open source platform, is bringing flexibility to Mac users who want to experiment with different AI models without sacrificing privacy. The platform acts as a control hub that lets user

The Bay Area's beloved mountain retreat, Lake Tahoe, is facing an energy crisis as its current power contract expires next May. Liberty Utilities' agreement with NV Energy is set to end in May 2027, f

Nine California jurors began deliberations in a high-stakes case that could reshape the future of OpenAI, the world's leading artificial intelligence laboratory. The trial centers on Elon Musk's alleg

Notion is expanding beyond its roots as a collaborative note-taking tool by launching a new developer platform that transforms its workspace into a central hub for AI agents. During a live-streamed ev

Elon Musk's xAI is operating 46 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center without full regulatory oversight, according to local news reports. The company has received permits for only 15 of

Origin Lab has secured $8 million in seed funding to build what it calls a marketplace connecting video game companies with AI labs hungry for training data. Lightspeed Ventures led the round, with pa

Sam Altman took the stand today in defense against a lawsuit filed by his former co-founder Elon Musk, who is challenging OpenAI's corporate structure. When asked about Musk's claim that OpenAI's othe

Amazon Ring selected AI voice startup Vapi over more than 40 competitors to handle its customer support calls during last year's holiday season. The deployment, which now covers 100% of Ring's inbound

OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative designed to identify and fix security vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. The system leverages GPT-5.5-Cyber along wi

Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder of Robinhood, has secured $275 million in Series B funding for Cowboy Space Corporation, pushing the company's valuation to $2 billion. The round was led by Index Ventures,