Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia to build an AI that runs product demos instead of humans
Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia to build an AI that runs product demos instead of humans

Sable has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build an AI system called Aidan that runs live product demonstrations, answers customer questions in real time, and switches between languages mid-conversation. The company, which is less tha…

Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals

The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That …

Apple is preparing an OLED iPad mini for October as its tablet lineup expands
Apple is preparing an OLED iPad mini for October as its tablet lineup expands

Apple is preparing the biggest overhaul of its iPad mini in half a decade, with plans to release a version featuring an OLED display by October, according to people familiar with the matter. The current model has kept the same design since 2021, receiv…

Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system
Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system

Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed roun…

Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next fortune in AI is implementation, not models
Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next fortune in AI is implementation, not models

The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies. That company is Ode with Anthropic, and it launched under it…

A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity
A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity

Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that. Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol t…

A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test
A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test

One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain. His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is si…

An F1 aerodynamicist just raised $55m to teach factory robots, using footage of people doing chores
An F1 aerodynamicist just raised $55m to teach factory robots, using footage of people doing chores

Bercan Kilic got his dream job in 2023, designing aerodynamics for Red Bull Racing while it was winning everything. He found the engineering magnificent and the point of it thin. His Munich startup, microagi, has now raised $55m, which it says is the l…

Applied Computing raises $20m to build a foundation model for the refinery
Applied Computing raises $20m to build a foundation model for the refinery

A single refinery can carry thousands of sensors measuring temperature, pressure, velocity, and viscosity. According to Applied Computing, operators make decisions using less than 8% of what those sensors tell them. The London startup has raised a $20m…

Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services
Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services

Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company’s hardware lineup. Annual plans went up by five dollars. T…