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Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.

OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPhone maker.

A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

The company pivoted to being a data provider in 2023 and now supplies datasets of images, videos, design assets, and gaming and 3D content to AI labs.

"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers," Campbell Brown said at StrictlyVC.

Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.

Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.

The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.

For founders and investors, Anthropic's new offering signals that the AI platform wars are expanding downmarket and that the next major battleground for user acquisition isn't the Fortune 500; it's the 36 million small businesses that make up the backbone of the U.S. economy.

Alexa for Shopping offers a voice- and touch-enabled shopping experience across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show smart displays. Alexa for Shopping provides more personalized recommendations and automates the shopping experience across Amazon and other online retailers.

Meta said these incognito conversations are not saved, and messages will disappear by default once you close the chat.

A survey compiled from fintech firm Ramp’s clients’ expense data shows 34.4% of participating businesses are paying for Anthropic services, more than any other AI lab, while only 32.3% pay for OpenAI.

Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.

Adaption's new AutoScientist tool is designed to let models adapt to specific capabilities quickly through an automated approach to conventional fine-tuning.

There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.

Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew "founders who had control usually did not give it up."