Poke is a new AI agent that simplifies automation for everyday tasks, allowing users to interact through familiar messaging platforms like iMessage, SMS, and Telegram. Launched in March 2026, Poke provides a personal assistant capable of managing daily tasks such as planning schedules, tracking health, controlling smart home devices, and editing photos, all through text. […]
A new venture capital fund, named Zero Shot, has emerged from former OpenAI employees. The fund aims to raise $100 million and has already secured initial investments and begun writing checks to startups. The founding team includes Evan Morikawa, Andrew Mayne, and Shawn Jain, who are joined by VC Kelly Kovacs and Brett Rounsaville. They […]
Manny Medina, renowned as the founder of sales automation platform Outreach, has successfully attracted significant funding for his latest venture, Paid. The startup raised $21.6 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Lightspeed while building upon an earlier pre-seed round of €10 million raised in March. With this new funding, Paid has amassed a […]
OpenAI is undergoing a significant reorganization of its Model Behavior team, which focuses on shaping the interactions of its AI models, including how they converse with users. In a memo to staff, Chief Research Officer Mark Chen announced that this influential group will be integrated into the larger Post Training team, responsible for enhancing AI […]
LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup, is on track to attain unicorn status with its latest funding round estimated at approximately $1 billion, led by IVP. The company initially emerged in late 2022 as an open-source project helmed by Harrison Chase, who was previously an engineer at Robust Intelligence. Following substantial developer interest, Chase established LangChain […]
Venture capitalists traditionally focus on investing in startups that leverage technology to disrupt industries or create new markets. However, some VCs are shifting their strategies by acquiring established businesses, such as call centers and accounting firms, and enhancing them with artificial intelligence (AI) to improve customer service through automation. This approach mirrors private equity roll-ups […]
Fastino, a startup based in Palo Alto, is innovating in the AI space by adopting a different approach to model architecture. Unlike major tech firms that typically develop enormous AI models requiring costly GPU clusters, Fastino has focused on creating small, task-specific models. These compact models are optimized for efficiency, allowing them to be trained […]
Last summer, mining startup KoBold captured attention by announcing the discovery of one of the largest copper deposits in over a decade in Zambia. Building on this momentum, Earth AI recently disclosed its own achievement: identifying promising deposits of critical minerals in parts of Australia that have been overlooked by other mining companies for decades. […]
Generative AI funding achieved unprecedented levels in 2024, showing no signs of slowing down despite previous concerns about a market bubble. Investments in the field, which includes a variety of AI-driven applications and tools for generating text, images, videos, speech, and music, hit a remarkable $56 billion across 885 deals. This represents a stark 192% […]
Back in May, OpenAI announced plans to create a tool allowing content creators to manage how their works would be used in its AI training data. However, as of now, the promised tool, named Media Manager, has not been released, and the deadline for its launch was set for 2025. The Media Manager was designed […]