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Why This Startup Is Strapping Cameras To Housekeepers’ Heads In India

Why This Startup Is Strapping Cameras To Housekeepers’ Heads In India

On a Tuesday evening in early July, Anushka Ahuja, a dentist in Gurgaon, India, opens the door for the house help she booked ten minutes ago on...

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AI’s Early Winners Are Shopping For Their Next Big Moves

AI’s Early Winners Are Shopping For Their Next Big Moves

Early winners of the AI wave are on a bit of a shopping spree. This week, AI coding startup Cognition bought Poke, an AI assistant that texts people...

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China’s Latest Models Are Threatening American AI Hegemony

China’s Latest Models Are Threatening American AI Hegemony
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AI Startups Are Pivoting From Flashy Demos To Tech That Pays The Bills

AI Startups Are Pivoting From Flashy Demos To Tech That Pays The Bills

In early 2023, Keith Peiris’s AI-powered presentation startup Tome was growing quickly. It had become the fastest productivity tool to reach 1...

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AI Startup Reflection Inks $1 Billion Compute Deal To Challenge China’s Open Source Dominance

Reflection announced Tuesday that it inked a deal to buy $1 billion worth of compute from neocloud Nebius to train its open source models. The deal...

15.07.2026 4

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The Chinese AI Blockade Is Coming

Chinese authorities are in talks to potentially curb overseas access to the country’s leading AI models, many of which are open source, Reuters...

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Could Codex Be The Answer To OpenAI’s Problems?

ChatGPT is about to get a lot more powerful. That's because OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT and Codex, its coding agent, into a single app....

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AI Startups With No Revenue Are Using This Tactic To Supersize Their Valuations

In November 2025, David Silver, the renowned former scientist at Google DeepMind, dialed into a Zoom meeting with a venture capital firm to pitch his...

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The World’s Largest Tech Companies: Memory Chips Skyrocket Amid AI Data Center Buildout

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OpenAI Courts Advertising Bigwigs At Cannes Lions

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SpaceX’s $60 Billion Cursor Acquisition Doubles 20-Something Cofounders’ Net Worths

On the heels of its blockbuster IPO, SpaceX announced that it plans to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in an all-stock deal worth $60 billion by the...

16.06.2026 10

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This $2.2 Billion AI Startup Is Helping The Country’s Largest Landlords With Admin Work

If you’re interested in renting an apartment in one of Equity Residential’s 300 properties, chances are you’ll soon be chatting with Ella to set...

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Siri Gets An AI Face Lift

Welcome back to The Prompt, Apple’s iconic assistant Siri finally got its AI makeover. At its annual developer conference WWDC, the tech titan...

09.06.2026 10

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AI Sticker Shock Could Slow Down Anthropic’s Growth

Claude maker Anthropic confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission, taking the first step towards its highly...

02.06.2026 10

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Zach Dell’s Battery Company Is In Talks To Raise Funding At A $12 Billion Valuation

Additional reporting from Iain Martin. Austin-based Base Power, a provider of home batteries for backup power, is in talks to raise around $1 billion...

29.05.2026 10

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This AI Startup’s Army Of 15,000 Hackers Pressure Test Claude, GPT-5 And Gemini

Last spring, Kameron Bettridge participated in a security challenge hosted by AI startup Gray Swan. The objective: convince AI models from companies...

28.05.2026 10

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Sarah Guo Bet Everything On AI Pre-ChatGPT. Now She’s One Of The World’s Top Investors

In 2014, Australian entrepreneur Tuhin Srivastava had scored a meeting with Sarah Guo, then the youngest partner at storied VC firm Greylock. He was...

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IPO Season Is Here And AI Is Finally Growing Up

Welcome back to The Prompt. AI is finally starting to move from investor mania and private-market hype to public-market scrutiny. On Wednesday, SpaceX...

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Musk Vows Appeal After Losing $150 Billion OpenAI Lawsuit

Welcome back to The Prompt, On Monday, Elon Musk lost his highly publicized $150 billion lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, ending the dramatic...

19.05.2026 10

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We Have No Clue What Goes On Inside AI's Brain. This $1.25 Billion Startup Is Trying To Find Out

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xAI Cofounder Igor Babuschkin In Talks To Raise Up To $1 Billion For A New AI Startup

14.05.2026 20

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Republicans Investigate Sam Altman’s Personal Investments For Conflicts Of Interest

12.05.2026 10

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This $1.3 Billion AI Startup’s Software Watches Employees As They Work

Every company these days wants to figure out how to automate people’s work with AI. Turns out, AI can also help with that. Founded in 2019, San...

10.05.2026 10

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Anthropic Is Now Targeting Finance After Revolutionizing Coding

After upending the coding world with Claude Code, Anthropic has a new target: financial services. The company announced on Tuesday that it's...

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Inside Suno’s $2.5 Billion Bet That AI-Made Music Is Here To Stay

On a frosty February evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mikey Shulman is spinning up a new song. His electric bass guitar hangs idly on a nearby...

30.04.2026 10

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OpenAI’s Missed Targets Rattle Investors

Welcome back to The Prompt, OpenAI has missed important internal revenue and user growth targets, the Wall Street Journal reported. CFO Sarah Friar...

28.04.2026 20

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New Apple CEO’s Big Challenge: Readying The $4 Trillion Behemoth For The AI Era

In the cutthroat AI race, one name has been noticeably missing in action: Apple. That might soon change. On Monday, Apple announced that Tim Cook will...

21.04.2026 20

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Mercor’s 23-Year-Old Billionaire Founders Grapple With Employee Fraud And North Korean Infiltration

During an all-hands meeting earlier this year at data labeling startup Mercor, its then 22-year-old billionaire CEO Brendan Foody pulled up a slide...

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Anthropic Uses This Startup’s AI To Answer People’s Questions About Claude Code

In the last two months alone, Anthropic pushed out more than 50 updates to Claude Code. And with each update comes new documentation, published on its...

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Four Day Work Weeks, Public Wealth Fund: OpenAI’s Ideas For Our AI Future

Welcome back to The Prompt, What should a world with artificial intelligence that surpasses human cognitive abilities look like — and how should the...

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What Anthropic’s Leak Means For The Coming Wave Of ‘Dark Code’

Not all coding problems are AI-generated. On Tuesday, Anthropic said a leak triggered by a “human error” exposed 500,000 lines of source code...

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Why This AI Law Firm Is Ditching The Billable Hour

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This VC Invested In AI Pre-ChatGPT. Now He’s Raised $230 Million To Double Down

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This $600 Million AI Startup Is Speeding Up Paperwork So Patients Get Drugs Faster

Every week physicians spend 13 hours on average digging through patients' medical records, answering questions and preparing documentation to...

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OpenAI’s Wake Up Call

Welcome back to The Prompt, OpenAI is planning a major shift in its strategy to focus on coding and enterprise users while deprioritizing “side...

18.03.2026 30

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Google And OpenAI Staff Unite Behind Anthropic As It Sues Pentagon

10.03.2026 30

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How Anthropic’s Kerfuffle With The Pentagon Became A Optics Headache For OpenAI

03.03.2026 20

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Racist Videos And Payment Problems: The Dark Side Of This AI Startup’s Super-Fast Growth

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Moltbook: Swarm Intelligence Or AI Slop?

04.02.2026 30

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Why Some Of The Largest Book Publishers Are Hiring AI Engineers

03.02.2026 30

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While Big Tech Is Silent, AI Leaders Speak Out Against ICE Shootings

28.01.2026 30

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OpenEvidence Founder Doubles His Wealth As Medical AI Startup Hits $12 Billion Valuation

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Inside OpenAI’s Plan To Make Money

21.01.2026 30

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AI 50 2026: Submissions For Forbes’ List Of The Top 50 AI Startups Is Open

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This 28-Year-Old AI Founder Thinks His Customer Service Startup Can Beat Out Companies 10x His Size

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Gemini 3’s Success Means Google Is Back, Baby

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Four Cofounders Of Popular AI Coding Tool Cursor Are Now Billionaires

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This Startup Is Racing Duolingo To Replace Human Language Tutors With AI

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Will SoftBank Regret Selling Off Nvidia Again?

12.11.2025 30

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Why Sam Altman Won’t Be On The Hook For OpenAI’s Massive Spending Spree

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