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Turnout Announces $35 M Series A to Put an AI Advocate in Every American's Corner
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (356+ words) PRESS RELEASE'Turnout, an AI-powered consumer advocacy service that reimagines how Americans navigate complex government and financial bureaucracies, has announced a $35 million Series A, bringing the total company valuation to $400 million. The round was led by High Post Capital, with participation…...
Open AI Hires Transformer Co-Author Noam Shazeer and Former White House AI Official Dean Ball Ahead of IPO
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (162+ words) Open AI has recruited two high-profile figures as it prepares for its public market debut: Noam Shazeer, one of the foundational architects of modern generative AI, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official. The twin hires…...
AWS Moves Toward Selling Trainium AI Chips to Third Parties in Direct Challenge to Nvidia's Data Center Dominance
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (341+ words) AI Insider AWS Moves Toward Selling Trainium AI Chips to Third Parties in Direct Challenge to Nvidia's Data Center Dominance Amazon Web Services is in early talks to sell its proprietary Trainium AI chips to external companies for use in…...
Anthropic Becomes First AI Startup to Join Frontier Carbon Removal Collective in $915 M funding Tranche
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (230+ words) Anthropic has joined Frontier, the carbon removal collective founded by Stripe, Google, and Shopify, becoming the first pure-play AI company to participate in the group. The move is part of a new $915 million funding tranche that nearly doubles Frontier's total…...
G7 Leaders Warn Over US AI Access Risk as Anthropic Model Ban Exposes Dependency Threat
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (203+ words) World leaders used the G7 Summit to raise urgent concerns about the United States" ability to cut off access to American AI models without warning, in a debate shaped directly by the Trump administration"s recent ban on Anthropic"s Mythos…...
Endoscopic Robotics Company Channel Robotics Raises $4. 6 M in New Funding
6+ hour, 35+ min ago (271+ words) Channel Robotics has raised $2. 5 million in Seed+ funding as the medical robotics startup works to commercialize a handheld robotic platform designed to bring advanced robotic capabilities to endoscopic procedures. The round was led by True Ventures and brings the company's…...
Most Americans Hold Negative Views of AI Despite Rising Daily Use, Pew Research'Finds
1+ day, 39+ min ago (169+ words) Young people under 30 are the most pessimistic cohort, with just 14% expecting a positive societal impact. Nearly two-thirds of all Americans feel AI development is moving too fast. Despite this, daily AI use is rising. Around a quarter of Americans use…...
Alibaba Releases Qwen for Robotics with Suite for Navigation, Manipulation and World Modeling
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (448+ words) Alibaba has introduced a new suite of robotics foundation models designed to help robots navigate, manipulate objects and predict how the physical world will respond to their actions. "The Qwen family of foundation models already gives strong perception and reasoning…...
Google Launches $99 Home Speaker Built Around Gemini AI, with Premium Subscription Tier
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (160+ words) Google has unveiled its first smart speaker designed specifically around its Gemini AI, the Google Home Speaker, priced at $99. 99 and available for preorder now. It marks the company's first standalone audio device since the Nest Audio in 2020, and represents a…...
Niteshift Secures $7 M to Build Model-Agnostic AI Coding Infrastructure as Frontier Labs Threaten Vertical Markets
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (333+ words) AI Insider Niteshift Secures $7 M to Build Model-Agnostic AI Coding Infrastructure as Frontier Labs Threaten Vertical Markets Niteshift, an AI coding infrastructure startup founded by former early Datadog engineers Sajid Mehmood and Conor Branagan, has raised a $7 million seed round…...