Marissa Mayer has defended using her startup’s AI assistant to describe her own daughter, after a New York Times profile drew a wave of criticism online. The former Yahoo chief executive told Alexandra Alter of The New York Times that her daughter’s te…
Bending Spoons now owns Miro, the online whiteboard used by more than 250,000 organisations. The Milan group closed the all-cash Miro deal on Monday, it said in a statement on Business Wire. Bending Spoons agreed to buy Miro in September at an enterpri…
Bedrock Robotics has closed a $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital. The round values the San Francisco startup at $4.1bn after the money, it said in a statement on Monday. It brings the company’s total funding to nearly $1bn. Bloombe…
Mistral’s chief executive, Arthur Mensch, has warned that Europe will get “leftovers” if it stops building frontier AI models. Apps built on American or Chinese models would also give Europe a “big trade balance problem”, he said on 20 October. Mensch …
Most AI assistants live in a chat window. Stockholm-based Strawberry wants them to work where people already do their jobs: inside the browser, with access to the tabs, tools, and accounts they use every day. The startup released version 1.0 of its AI …
“Since the policy was announced, two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have successfully completed the registration process and obtained open-source and overseas licensing rights.” That is what Yuyuan Tantian, a WeChat account affiliated with st…
Recursive Superintelligence, the startup trying to build AI that improves itself, has released its first model. Flint is a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop. Recursive says its own automated research system helped build nearly every par…
Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight, has raised a $150M Series A. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime led the round, Eka announced on its blog on Tuesday. The round values th…
Formic, a Chicago company that rents robots to American factories, has raised $50M. Today its robots are built for specific tasks. The money will help it move to general-purpose machines that can take on more kinds of factory work. Axios first reported…
Rivian has bought Third Dimension AI, a startup that turns real-world camera footage into 3D scenes. The carmaker will use them to train and test its driver assistance and self-driving software. Rivian announced the deal on Thursday and did not disclos…