XAI Releases Grok Build, A New AI Coding Agent For The Terminal
xAI has launched Grok Build, an AI‑powered coding agent that operates from the terminal. The tool is in early beta and available to SuperGrok and X Premium Plus subscribers, letting developers ask Grok for planning, editing, and diff reviews without leaving their command line. Grok Build supports plan mode, clean diffs, sub‑agents, plugins, and headless automation, positioning it as a full‑stack coding partner rather than a simple chat bot. By embedding AI directly into the developer’s workspace, the product aims to speed up bug fixes, feature work, and code reviews.
Perplexity Releases Bumblebee As An Open Source Scanner For Dev Teams
Perplexity has open‑sourced Bumblebee, a read‑only security scanner for macOS and Linux developer machines. The tool inventories local package metadata, editor and browser extensions, and AI tool configurations to identify risky versions without executing any code. It outputs structured NDJSON...
Foundation Closes $6.4M Round for Human Authority Hardware
Foundation, a hardware security startup, closed a $6.4 million round led by Fulgur Ventures, bringing its total capital to $16.5 million. The funding will fund the launch of Passport Prime, a U.S.-made device that merges a Bitcoin wallet, FIDO key, two‑factor authentication,...
Gemini 3.5 Flash Update Makes Google AI More Useful for Developers
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a generally available AI model optimized for coding and autonomous agents. The model supports multimodal inputs—text, image, video, audio and PDF—and can execute code, manage files, and run command‑line tasks via the Gemini API....
AI in Mental Health Care: Why Chatbots Raise New Risks
AI‑powered mental‑health chatbots are proliferating as low‑cost, 24‑hour alternatives to traditional therapy, which averages $122‑$227 per session and often has long waitlists. While they can help users track mood, practice breathing exercises, and organize thoughts before a therapist visit, they...
Flick Raises $6M for Filmmaker-First AI Video Tools
Flick, an AI‑native filmmaking platform founded by Zoey Zhang and Ray Wang, closed a $6 million seed round led by GV, True Ventures and other prominent investors. The startup aims to fill a market gap by offering non‑linear AI video tools...
AI Events Around the World in 2026: The Main Annual Meetings To Know
AI events in 2026 span research‑heavy conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR and AAAI, as well as industry‑focused summits like the AI Summit London, World Summit AI, NVIDIA GTC and SuperAI Singapore. Attendance figures illustrate the scale—NeurIPS recorded over 13,000...
Judgment Labs Raises $32M to Build the Improvement Layer for AI Agents
San Francisco‑based Judgment Labs announced a $32 million seed‑plus‑Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding will accelerate development of its infrastructure platform that monitors, diagnoses, and iteratively improves “deep” AI agents using production data. The company already has enterprise...
AI Startup Knit Health Raises $11.6M in Seed Funding
AI startup Knit Health, spun out of UC Berkeley, announced a $11.6 million seed round led by Uncork Capital and Frist Cressey Ventures. The company is building a Large Clinical Behavior Model (LCBM) that learns from real clinical decision patterns across...
Quantum Motion Raises $160M to Bring Quantum Into Data Centers
Quantum Motion, a UK silicon‑based quantum computer maker, closed a $160 million Series C round led by DCVC and Kembara, making it the best‑funded UK quantum firm. The company argues its CMOS qubits cut cost by 100‑fold and energy use by 1,000‑fold...
Interview: Vishal Sharma, CTO of SearchUnify
SearchUnify’s CTO Vishal Sharma outlines how its Agentic AI Suite transforms enterprise support from simple document retrieval to autonomous, end‑to‑end case handling. The platform uses purpose‑built agents, federated retrieval‑augmented generation (FRAG), and real‑time orchestration to triage, resolve, and assist across...
AI Unicorns 2026: 25 Private AI Startups to Know
The 2026 AI unicorn landscape now spans 25 private firms valued at $1 billion or more, ranging from data‑lakehouse leader Databricks ($134 B) to sector‑specific players in coding, robotics, healthcare, defense and cloud infrastructure. Companies such as Cursor/Anysphere ($1 B ARR, $50 B valuation)...
17 Best ChatGPT Plugins (Now GPTs) Worth Using in 2026
OpenAI has retired ChatGPT plugins and introduced GPTs—customized, task‑specific extensions that activate instantly from the Explore GPTs menu. The guide reviews 17 of the most useful GPTs for 2026, ranging from data analytics and Wolfram’s computation engine to design tools...
Orkes Raises $60M to Scale AI Workflow Orchestration
Orkes announced a $60 million Series B round, led by AVP with new investor Prosperity7 Ventures joining existing backers. The funding follows a $20 million Series A in 2024 and brings total capital raised to roughly $80 million. Orkes, built by the engineers behind Netflix’s...
C-Infinity Raises $16M to Close the Gap Between Product Design and Production
C-Infinity, an AI-driven manufacturing process‑planning startup, closed a $16 million Series A led by Canaan Partners, with participation from Inventus Capital, Bee Partners and Radius Capital. Its AutoAssembler platform automates the translation of CAD models into factory‑ready assembly plans, cutting weeks‑long manual...