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Bumble launched AI assistant Bee for matching based on goals and compatibility
Bumble unveiled Bee, an AI assistant that changes the dating format: instead of swipes, it matches partners based on goals and compatibility.
AI startup Rox valued at $1.2 billion: a new competitor in the CRM market
Rox AI, a startup founded by former New Relic chief growth officer, has been valued at $1.2 billion, offering an AI-native replacement for CRM systems.
Peacock bets on AI video, mobile sports and games to grow streaming
NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock is expanding into AI video, vertical clips and mobile games in an attempt to find growth without joining the race for content budgets.
Google bought Wiz for $32 billion — the largest venture-backed acquisition in history
Google has closed its purchase of cybersecurity startup Wiz for a record $32 billion — after a rejection a year ago, antitrust reviews, and a renewed bet on AI, cloud, and security.
xAI starts from scratch again: Musk builds an AI coding tool with a team from Cursor
The xAI lab admitted that its first approach to building an AI coding tool failed and is starting over — with two senior executives poached from Cursor.
TechCrunch: the biggest AI events of 2026 — deals, protests, and high-stakes negotiations
TechCrunch took stock of the first months of 2026: major acquisitions, successes by independent developers, public protest, and negotiations with existential stakes.
Nyne raises $5.3 million to give AI agents personal user context
Father-and-son startup Nyne has closed a $5.3 million seed round from Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons to build personal context infrastructure for AI agents.
Meta considers laying off 20% of staff to fund AI infrastructure
Mark Zuckerberg's company could lay off one in five employees, with the savings directed toward aggressive investment in AI infrastructure and related acquisitions.
Lawyer in AI psychosis cases: chatbots are now linked to mass-casualty risk
A lawyer handling AI psychosis lawsuits warns that chatbots are already appearing in cases involving mass-casualty threats, while the technology is outpacing safeguards.
Google and Accel selected 5 Indian startups from 4,000 applications — and none was an AI wrapper
Google and Accel reviewed more than 4,000 applications for the Atoms accelerator and found that 70% of applicants were building wrapper products on top of other companies’ AI models.
Jensen Huang at GTC 2026: Nvidia sets the course for the future of AI and computing
Nvidia is holding its flagship GTC 2026 conference — Jensen Huang's keynote will define the company's AI and computing strategy for the coming years.
Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica Sue OpenAI Over 100,000 Articles
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster accuse OpenAI of unlawfully using nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train language models — without permission and without compensation.
Fuse raised $25 million to displace legacy systems in U.S. credit unions
Startup Fuse built an AI-native platform for U.S. credit unions and announced a $5 million rescue fund that covers penalties for early termination of contracts with legacy vendors.
Nvidia DLSS 5 uses generative AI for photorealism in games and beyond
Nvidia’s fifth-generation DLSS creates pixels from scratch using generative AI and structured scene data — Jensen Huang already sees applications for the technology beyond gaming.
Lawsuit against xAI: Grok allegedly turned real photos of children into sexual content
Three minors filed a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the Grok chatbot created sexualized images based on their real photos.
Memories.ai is developing a visual memory layer for wearables and robots
Startup Memories.ai is building a large visual memory model that will allow wearables and robots to index and retrieve video recordings of real-world events.
Nvidia unveils NemoClaw — an enterprise platform for AI agents with a focus on security
Nvidia has announced NemoClaw — an open enterprise platform for AI agents based on the viral OpenClaw, aimed at solving the main problem of enterprise AI: security.
Picsart Opens AI-Agent Marketplace: Content Creators Can Hire AI Assistants
Picsart has launched a marketplace where content creators can "hire" specialized AI agents for creative tasks — with four assistants at launch, new ones appearing weekly.
Gamma launches Gamma Imagine — AI image generation to rival Canva and Adobe
Gamma's AI presentation platform introduces Gamma Imagine — a tool for creating branded visuals from text prompts directly within the workspace.
Startup Niv-AI Emerges from Stealth with $12M to Combat GPU Power Spikes
Niv-AI raised $12M in seed funding to measure and manage GPU consumption spikes — a problem costing data centers billions in underutilized computing capacity.
Rana el-Kaliouby: "boys' club" in AI threatens to entrench the gender income gap
Investor Rana el-Kaliouby warns: women receive only about 2% of venture AI funding, and if nothing changes, the gender income gap will become structural.
Google Expands Personal Intelligence to All US Users
Google launches Personal Intelligence to all Americans — the AI assistant gains access to Gmail and Google Photos to provide personalized responses.
BuzzFeed showcased AI apps at SXSW, but the audience was unimpressed
At the SXSW conference, media company BuzzFeed unveiled new AI apps for social media in search of new revenue streams, but the demos failed to impress the audience.
Gary Tan’s Claude Code setup: thousands tried it, opinions split
The CEO of Y Combinator posted his Claude Code configuration on GitHub — and it triggered a wave of debate among developers and even the AI models themselves.
Mistral Forge: training enterprise AI from scratch on proprietary data
Mistral has launched Forge, a tool for training enterprise AI models from scratch on customer data, challenging the approaches of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Pentagon calls Anthropic a national security threat due to ethical restrictions on AI
The U.S. Department of Defense has designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk because the company reserves the right to disable AI during military operations.
Berkeley PhD students became the AI industry's chief judges: how Arena decides which model is best
The Arena startup has become the main public ranking of language models, influencing funding rounds and product launches throughout the industry.
Microsoft hired Cove startup team with Sequoia backing — service shutting down April 1
Microsoft recruited the entire team of Cove, an AI collaboration platform backed by Sequoia Capital. The service is shutting down April 1, with user data being deleted.
Sequen raises $16M for TikTok-style personalization technology for consumer companies
Startup Sequen closed a Series A round at $16 million to scale its AI content ranking engine—an analog of TikTok's algorithm—now accessible to any consumer brand.
Arena: AI model ranking that can't be gamed — and funded by those it judges
Arena (formerly LM Arena) became the leading public ranking of frontier LLMs, influencing investments and launches — while being financed by the very companies it evaluates.