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Apple to Unveil Gemini-Powered Siri Assistant with Advanced Task Completion Capabilities
Apple plans to announce a significantly upgraded Siri assistant in February 2025, powered by Google's Gemini AI models, marking the first substantial realization of their AI partnership. The new Siri will reportedly acce...
Humans& Raises $480M to Build Foundation Model for AI-Powered Team Coordination
Humans&, a startup founded by former employees of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, has raised a $480 million seed round to develop a foundation model focused on social intelligence and team coordination...
Neurophos Raises $110M for Optical AI Chips Claiming 50x Efficiency Over Nvidia
Neurophos, a Duke University spinout, has raised $110 million led by Gates Frontier to develop optical processing units using metamaterial-based metasurface modulators for AI inferencing. The startup claims its photonic...
SGLang Spins Out as RadixArk at $400M Valuation Amid Inference Infrastructure Boom
RadixArk, a commercial startup built around the popular open-source SGLang tool for AI model inference optimization, has raised funding at a $400 million valuation led by Accel. The company, founded by former xAI enginee...
Apple Developing ChatGPT-Style Siri Chatbot for iOS 27, Codenamed "Campos"
Apple is reportedly developing a major Siri overhaul that will transform it into an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT, with the feature codenamed "Campos" potentially debuting at WWDC in June for iOS 27. The chatbot will sup...
Humans& Raises $480M Seed Round to Build Collaborative AI That Empowers Rather Than Replaces People
Humans&, a three-month-old AI startup founded by former researchers from Anthropic, xAI, and Google, has raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation. The company aims to develop "human-centric" AI th...
OpenAI Leads $250M Investment in Sam Altman's Brain-Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs
OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, leading its $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation. The company aims to develop non-invasive neural interfaces using mole...
OpenAI Secures $10 Billion Multi-Year Compute Deal with AI Chipmaker Cerebras
OpenAI has signed a multi-year agreement worth over $10 billion with AI chipmaker Cerebras to deliver 750 megawatts of compute capacity from 2026 through 2028. The deal aims to provide faster, low-latency inference capab...
Skild AI Raises $1.4B at $14B Valuation for General-Purpose Robot Foundation Models
Skild AI, a startup founded in 2023, has raised $1.4 billion in a Series C round led by SoftBank, valuing the company at over $14 billion. The company develops general-purpose foundation models for robots that can be ret...
Anthropic Launches Cowork: Simplified AI Agent for Non-Technical Users
Anthropic has announced Cowork, a more accessible version of Claude Code built into the Claude Desktop app that allows users to designate folders for Claude to read and modify files through a chat interface. Currently in...