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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 on Tuesday introduced ASSERT, an open-source framework designed to help developers test whether AI systems behave correctly for their specific products and services. Short for Adaptive Spec-

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

Microsoft is rolling out a new open-source framework called Agent Control Specification (ACS), designed to give developers more precise oversight over how autonomous AI agents behave once deployed. An

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

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is taking on a new fight: demanding greater transparency from data center operators. The activist, whose legal battle against Pacific Gas & Electric was dramatiz

Google Chrome and Apple's Safari continue to dominate the browser market in 2026, but a new wave of competitors is challenging their supremacy. Chrome maintains its lead largely due to Google's aggres

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

GitHub Copilot is shifting to a token-based billing system starting June 1, replacing its flat subscription model with a pay-per-usage approach that could significantly increase costs for many develop

Cognition has secured $1 billion in funding at a $26 billion valuation, making the two-year-old startup one of the most valuable AI companies in the industry. The company created Devin, one of the fir

In February 2026, AI research lab METR encountered a significant obstacle while attempting to update earlier research on AI coding productivity. The researchers found that most developers simply refus

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

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

Asana has purchased StackAI, a no-code agent-building platform, for $75 million as part of its push to become an AI-first workplace platform. The acquisition, announced Thursday alongside Asana's earn

Anthropic has launched Opus 4.8, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model, marking the fastest upgrade cycle in the company's recent history. The new model arrived just 41 days after Opus 4.7 hit

YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered feature that generates personalized video feeds based on text descriptions of what viewers want to watch. Users can describe their interests, mood, or specific

Google's annual developer conference I/O made it clear that AI-generated responses have taken over the front page of search results, and most companies have no idea what AI systems are saying about th

Google's AI Overview feature is making elementary spelling mistakes that have become the subject of ridicule online. The artificial intelligence incorrectly stated there are two P's in "Google" (there

Cognition, the startup behind the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has secured over $1 billion in new funding at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, the company revealed Wednesday. This marks a d

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sat down with The Verge's Nilay Patel for their fifth consecutive post-I/O developer conference interview, discussing how the company is fundamentally restructuri

The countdown is on for startup founders and tech professionals looking to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Early Bird ticket pricing, which offers savings of up to $410, expires on May 29, 2026 at 11:

DuckDuckGo has seen a significant boost in user adoption following Google's announcement of major changes to its search engine. The privacy-focused browser reported that U.S. app installs increased 18

OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, has secured $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet's growth venture fund. The company now commands a valuation of approximately $

Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok have renewed their licensing agreement with a focus on removing unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform and improving artist attribution systems. The d

Pope Leo XIV released his inaugural encyclical on Monday, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," focused on protecting human dignity amid artificial intelligence. However, the 200-page document ventures far be

Early attempts to hack AI chatbots required almost no technical skill. Users could sometimes bypass expensive safety measures with simple tricks, often just by asking the system to forget its rules. T

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

Google gave attendees at this week's I/O developer conference a chance to test its upcoming AI-powered glasses with visual displays, offering a glimpse beyond the audio-only version scheduled to launc

Spotify has launched a new desktop application called Studio by Spotify Labs that generates personalized AI podcasts on any topic, directly competing with Google's NotebookLM. The app allows users to

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

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

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

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

Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at its annual I/O developer conference, positioning the new AI model as a significant leap in autonomous agent capabilities rather than just conversational AI. The com

Google DeepMind announced at its I/O developer conference that it is connecting Street View imagery to Project Genie, its general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environ

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

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's co-founder and president, is now officially leading the company's product strategy, according to a Wired report. This move formalizes an existing arrangement where Brockman has

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

ArXiv, the widely-used preprint server for academic research, announced new enforcement measures against researchers who submit papers containing unvetted AI-generated content. Thomas Dietterich, who

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 high-profile trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman concluded this week, with closing arguments repeatedly centering on one critical question: whether the public can place trust in thos

OpenAI has brought its Codex coding assistant directly into the ChatGPT mobile app, letting developers keep tabs on their coding projects from anywhere. The feature, rolled out Thursday in preview mod

Campbell Brown, Meta's former head of news partnerships, has founded Forum AI to address what she sees as a critical gap in artificial intelligence: accuracy on complex, high-stakes topics. The 17-mon

Anthropic's Claude Code tool underwent a significant transformation in late 2025, shifting from a code generator that frequently failed to one that now produces working software almost every time. Thi

Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, believes legal tech will be the next major winner in the LLM era, and the company's financials seem to support that thesis. The 18-year-old Canadian company—wh

Anthropic appears poised to cement its position as a dominant force in artificial intelligence. The company is reportedly in talks to raise tens of billions in a funding round that could value it at a

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

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup launched last year by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has unveiled what it's calling "interaction models" — essentially, AI systems designed t