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Runway CEO: AI will let Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100 million blockbuster
Runway's CEO says AI tools will give studios the ability to produce dozens of films on the budget of a single blockbuster — more bets, bette
Roblox updates AI assistant: new agentic tools for game creation and testing
Roblox added agentic tools to its AI assistant that help developers plan, build, and test games at each stage of development.
Adobe: AI traffic to American retail grew 393% in Q1 2026
Adobe Analytics recorded a 393% increase in AI traffic to American retail in the first quarter — and found that such visitors convert better
InsightFinder raised $15M for diagnosing failures in AI-agent systems
Startup InsightFinder received $15M for developing diagnostic tools not only for AI models, but for the entire technical stack in which agen
Google adds split-screen to AI Mode: websites now appear alongside chat
Google updated AI Mode in Chrome Desktop — now when you click a link, the website opens alongside the AI chat instead of in a separate tab,
OpenAI Updated Codex: Agent Now Takes Control of Desktop
OpenAI has rolled out a major update to its Codex programming agent tool, adding new desktop management capabilities.
Physical Intelligence Introduces π0.7 — a Robot Brain Capable of Mastering Unfamiliar Tasks
Startup Physical Intelligence released the π0.7 model, which handles tasks it was never trained on — a step toward universal general-purpose
Upscale AI in talks for third round at $2 billion valuation seven months after launch
AI infrastructure startup Upscale AI is discussing a new funding round at a $2 billion valuation — already its third in the company's first
Luma AI launches Wonder Project studio: Moses film with Ben Kingsley to premiere on Prime Video
Luma AI is opening Wonder Project, an AI production studio with a religious focus. Its first project, a Moses film with Oscar winner Ben Kin
Factory raises $150M from Khosla Ventures, reaches $1.5B valuation
Three-year-old startup Factory has closed a $150M round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $1.5B — it builds AI agents for enter
Tokenmaxxing and the chasm: OpenAI buys up everything while Anthropic hides a model
Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI acquisitions, a footwear brand as AI infrastructure, and an Anthropic model “too powerful for the public” — the gap bet
Anthropic launches Claude Design — quick visuals for non-designers
Anthropic has released Claude Design, a standalone tool for quickly creating visuals aimed at founders and product managers without design s
OpenAI buys up companies, Anthropic withholds a model — the AI divide between insiders and everyone else is widening
While OpenAI buys up fintech apps and talk shows, a shoe manufacturer rebranded itself as AI infrastructure, and Anthropic admitted: the new
Kevin Wale and Bill Pebbles Depart OpenAI: Company Shuts Down Sora and Research Division
OpenAI loses its product director and Sora project lead — the company sharply pivots toward enterprise AI solutions and abandons consumer ex
App Store Experiences New Launch Boom — Appfigures Links Growth to AI Development Tools
According to Appfigures, the number of new apps in the App Store surged sharply in 2026 — analysts attribute the main cause to the prolifera
Cerebras Startup Files IPO Application: AWS and OpenAI Deals Worth $10 Billion
AI chip manufacturer Cerebras Systems has filed documents for IPO. The company has reached agreements with Amazon Web Services and OpenAI, w
Tesla Expands Robotaxi to Dallas and Houston — Service Extends Beyond Austin
Tesla launched driverless robotaxi in two new cities — Dallas and Houston — publishing video of electric vehicles with no drivers or operato
Uber shifts to asset ownership strategy — what changes for the taxi market
Uber abandons the "platform only" model and begins building its own asset fleet—vehicles, infrastructure, robotaxis.
12-month window: AI startups live while OpenAI hasn't reached their niche
Most AI startups exist in niches that major foundational models haven't reached yet—but this is temporary, and founders understand this perf
OpenAI and two existential challenges: how acquisitions should save the company
Analysts from the Equity podcast analyzed OpenAI's recent acquisitions and assessed whether they can solve two key crises threatening the co
NSA uses Anthropic's classified Mythos model despite conflict with the Pentagon
The US National Security Agency is secretly working with Anthropic's closed AI model, ignoring the company's public conflict with the Pentag
Google launches Gemini in Chrome browser in seven new Asia-Pacific countries
Google expands access to Gemini in Chrome to Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam.
Anthropic Raises $5B from Amazon in Exchange for $100B in Cloud Spending
Amazon invested another $5 billion in Anthropic, and the AI company committed to spending $100 billion on AWS—the largest circular deal in A
Startup GRAI believes AI should help fans remix music, not replace artists
AI startup GRAI offers a different view of AI's role in music: instead of generating tracks from scratch, it builds tools for collaborative
YouTube expands AI likeness detection to celebrities — now they can fight deepfakes
YouTube is giving celebrities and their representatives access to an AI tool for automatically finding deepfakes — performers will be able t
Bond — a new social network that uses AI to wean you off doomscrolling
Startup Bond has created a platform where AI actively encourages users to close the app and return to the real world — instead of keeping th
Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for building AI-RPGs with living NPCs
Latitude, the creator of AI Dungeon, has announced Voyage, a platform for creating full-fledged RPG worlds with characters powered by genera
At the FTC's request, Clarifai destroyed 3 million OkCupid user photos leaked for AI training
In 2014, dating platform OkCupid secretly handed millions of user photos to Clarifai for facial recognition — the images have now been destr
Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's new model Mythos: "fear-based marketing"
The head of OpenAI called the positioning of Anthropic Mythos, a model tailored for cybersecurity, fear-based marketing rather than a demons
Mind Robotics Raises $500M for Industrial AI Robots
The startup founded by Rivian creator RJ Scaringe raised half a billion dollars to develop AI robots and deploy them in manufacturing.