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Sources: former Google exec Jeff Dean is in talks for $1B in funding at a ~$10B valuation for his new science and engineering-focused AI startup, Discovery Loop (www.businessinsider.com)
1 day ago Google Startup AI

Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise $150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least $750M (www.businessinsider.com)
3 days ago Startup AI

Gravity, which places text-based ads within AI chatbots, raised a $30.5M Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed, taking its total funding to $38.5M (www.businessinsider.com)
8 days ago AI chatbot

Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B (www.businessinsider.com)
9 days ago Jack Ma Startup AI Insurance

Elon Musk says SpaceX has decided to “build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture” (www.businessinsider.com)
9 days ago Elon Musk Nvidia SpaceX

Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a “multi-chip approach” (www.businessinsider.com)
9 days ago

Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech (www.businessinsider.com)
9 days ago Google Startup AI

Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (www.businessinsider.com)
13 days ago AI

Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (www.businessinsider.com)
17 days ago Amazon AI

Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (www.businessinsider.com)
19 days ago Microsoft AI

Adam Mosseri says Instagram will take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of strangers in public places (www.businessinsider.com)
22 days ago Instagram

OpenAI introduces Presence, to help companies better connect AI agents to their internal systems and automate customer support, sales, and other tasks (www.businessinsider.com)
23 days ago AI

Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-13

NYC-based Vendelux, a live B2B event information platform for CMOs and marketing and sales teams, raised a $50M Series B led by Tribeca Venture Partners (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-12

Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-8 Amazon

xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and debuts a new logo (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-7

Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an “order of magnitude more compute than Avocado” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-3

Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-1 Microsoft Xbox

Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M+ (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-24 Startup AI

Convey, which is building AI “teammates” to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-16 Microsoft AI GitHub

A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and its testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was mainly a research effort (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-16

Coram AI, which helps organizations use AI with their existing security equipment to find incidents, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to $66M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-11 AI

Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-4 AI

X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by “programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-26

Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its commercial chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-22 Microsoft

Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-22 Microsoft Startup AI

Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-20 Google Google I/O

Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 AI

A look at a new class of jobs created by AI companies, including AI storytellers or “evangelists”, forward deployed engineers, AI chiefs, and AI gig workers (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 AI

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