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Thai generative AI integration platform Amity has raised $100 million in a funding round to accelerate its product rollout and prepare for a stock-mar...
Luma Labs has released Uni-1, a foundational image model that uses an autoregressive transformer to reason about user intent before generating pixels....
Luma AI released Uni-1, a single transformer model for image understanding and generation. It ranks first in human preference tests for style/editing...
Chinese humanoid robotics firm Unitree Robotics has filed for an IPO on Shanghai's Star Market, seeking to raise 4.2B yuan ($607.8M). The listing is s...
Hardware startup Violoop has secured multi-million dollar funding to develop the world's first 'physical-level AI Operator,' aiming to move AI interac...
YC-backed Cumulus Labs launches IonRouter, a high-throughput inference API that promises to slash AI deployment costs by optimizing for Nvidia's Grace...
K9 Audit introduces a revolutionary causal audit trail system for AI agents that records not just actions but intentions, addressing critical reliabil...
Bota Bio has rebranded as Enhe Technology and launched SAION AI, a pioneering Physical AI platform for biomanufacturing. The platform claims state-of-...
Former Google AI researchers have launched Integral AI in Tokyo, aiming to transform Japan's massive industrial robotics sector with AI models that te...
Balyasny Asset Management has built a sophisticated AI research system using OpenAI's GPT-5.3 models, implementing rigorous evaluation frameworks and...
SamarthyaBot is a privacy-first, self-hosted AI agent operating system that runs entirely on local machines. Unlike cloud-based assistants, it perform...
Boston startup CollectivIQ is tackling AI reliability by aggregating responses from up to 14 different language models simultaneously. The platform ai...
YC-backed startup Cekura launches a testing platform that uses synthetic users and LLM judges to simulate thousands of conversational paths for voice...
Chinese AI drug discovery firm XtalPi projects its first annual profit in 2025 following a 193% revenue surge, marking a pivotal moment for AI-driven...
OctaPulse, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is deploying robotics and computer vision to automate fish inspection in aquaculture. Their system aims to r...
AI company Altana reports a 213% spike in tariff calculations as businesses scramble following the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential tariff autho...
AI-powered accounting platform Basis has achieved unicorn status with a $1.15 billion valuation, reflecting growing investor confidence in AI's abilit...
Moonshot AI's Kimi chatbot generated more revenue in just 20 days than in all of 2025, achieving a $10 billion valuation in just over two years. This...
Zhipu AI's shares plummeted nearly 23% as computing resource constraints and user complaints reveal systemic challenges facing China's AI ambitions. T...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that Peter Steinberger, founder of the viral AI agent OpenClaw, is joining the company. The move signals OpenAI's deep...
European cloud provider Nebius acquires AI search startup Tavily for $275 million, integrating agentic search capabilities into its AI cloud platform...