The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund

In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups. [...]

Remebering Be Incorporated - the early 90s startup whose fate was decided by Steve Jobs

Former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée co-founded Be Inc in the early 1990s, hoping to take on Silicon Valley titans. [...]

‘The weekend is disappearing’ for Silicon Valley’s AI startup workers

Once outlawed in China, the grueling "996" workweek is gaining traction in San Francisco as startups race to ship AI products [...]

GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close

In the race to deploy generative AI for coding, the fastest tools are not winning enterprise deals. A new VentureBeat analysis, combining a comprehensive survey of 86 engineering teams with our own ha [...]

Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fin [...]

OpenAI debuts Sora 2 AI video generator app with sound and self-insertion cameos, API coming soon

OpenAI today announced the release of Sora 2, its latest video generation model, which now includes AI generated audio matching the generated video, as well.It is paired with the launch of a new iOS a [...]

This browser-based AI wants to kill the worst part of your job

Composite, a startup that turns web browsers into intelligent automation engines, has raised $5.6 million in seed funding to eliminate what its founders call the "digital grunt work" plaguin [...]

Snowflake builds new intelligence that goes beyond RAG to query and aggregate thousands of documents at once

Enterprise AI has a data problem. Despite billions in investment and increasingly capable language models, most organizations still can't answer basic analytical questions about their document re [...]

OpenAI’s “Hacktivate AI” report urges Europe to cut red tape and harmonize digital regulations

Just days before the EU is set to release its "Apply AI Strategy," OpenAI and Allied for Startups have published a report called "Hacktivate AI." The document puts forward 20 polic [...]