How AI mega-rounds make life harder for VC firms
Fewer-but-bigger deals mean investors are having to put more eggs in a single basket
Fewer-but-bigger deals mean investors are having to put more eggs in a single basket
UK watchdog will set out its response to the rise of the latest frontier models
Fish Audio released Drama 3, a 35B mixture-of-experts text-to-speech model with about 3B active parameters. It takes plain-language direction, covers 83 languages and ships open weights under a revenue-capped community license.
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Datalab released OmniParseBench, an open OCR benchmark with 16,288 yes/no tests on 2,937 pages in 92 languages. Every score is a pass rate you can slice by tag, script or language.
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SpaceXAI just released Grok Voice 3.0. Grok Voice 3.0 is a SpaceXAI speech-to-speech model that listens, reasons, calls tools and speaks. It now ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index with a score of 86.9. For developers, the endpoint, events and $0.08 per minute price are unchanged from Grok Voice 2.0. TL;DR What is […]
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Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in minutes.
With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts weeks of malware analysis to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats.
AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.
YouTube is adding a “Made with AI” label to tracks that were “altered or fully generated” using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn’t sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI tools in making music, but according to YouTube, it […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding. James is among 40 bipartisan AGs who filed a notice of interest in Character.AI’s bankruptcy case “to put all parties on notice of the regulatory issues that […]
Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest […]
OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed separately by Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana, allege OpenAI unlawfully put profits over safety when […]
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. The AI simulation “aims to reflect 80% of the scenarios McKinsey consultants might encounter in their day-to-day work,” the […]
Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.
The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as AI involved in composition and vocals.
Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.
Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the “storm tracker for the internet,” […]
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.
Figma is also releasing its code layers feature in open beta.
Arrest of computer engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan has shocked tech figures in Saudi Arabia, where he is deeply connected
Exchange discussed putting legal tech unit into separate entity before valuations fall
Blended teams of humans and AI agents add an extra layer of complexity, and require careful management
Semiconductors, financial services and space technology led for new Unicorn Board counts with the remainder hailing from a broad swath of industries including biotech, AI infrastructure, AI training, security and frontier labs.
Complex, interconnected problems like compliance require a comprehensive product from the outset, argues guest columnist Daniel Kjellén, CEO and co-founder of Freda. Drawing on his experience selling Tink, he explains how repeat founders can combine capital, credibility and hard-earned lessons with AI’s development speed to pursue bigger ambitions without shrinking their vision.
In this Crunchbase News exclusive, we spoke to Marklo AI founder Jessica Herrin about her solution to the marketing problems she encountered when building earlier startups, and how a group of investors, led by Forerunner, are backing that early experience with a $5 million seed funding round.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight 24B Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model with 2B active parameters. It targets local agents, scoring 48.09 on LiveClaw and decoding 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max.
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Marktechpost ranks the 9 best AI gateways for 2026. We compare Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong, TrueFoundry, Cloudflare, Vercel, OpenRouter and Orq.ai on latency, pricing, licensing, governance and deployment.
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New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value.
With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use.
See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.
“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED.
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.
Epic Games is announcing a big refresh of its PC games launcher today in preview, saying that the new version is “way faster” and now supports Linux. But the company, which has been publicly making a big push into AI-assisted development, also notes that the refresh was “vibe coded.” “Programming is hard,” Epic says in […]
Are legions of smart devices – fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs – conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, […]
Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It’s called the Square Kiosk. Square says the Kiosk, which has a large pill shape, has an “agentic, conversational voice layer” that “fully understands a seller’s menu and listens and responds in real […]