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These Two Founders Left Goldman and Meta to Build Voice AI for Markets Everyone Else Overlooked
AethexAI, a voice‑AI startup targeting Africa and the Middle East, closed a $3 million pre‑seed round led by 4DX Ventures. The founders—former Goldman Sachs and Meta employees— built proprietary small‑scale language models and an orchestration layer to overcome latency and dialect challenges that larger providers cannot address. Their Kora series, ranging from 300 million to 1.7 billion parameters, now powers over 17,000 daily calls for use cases such as debt collection, customer activation and KYC. The company is launching an enterprise platform with APIs, SDKs and on‑site support to accelerate adoption.
Coralogix Raises $200M on Bet that Someone Needs to Watch the AI Agents
Coralogix announced a $200 million Series F round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $1.6 billion. The Boston‑based observability startup says the surge in autonomous AI agents is driving demand for next‑generation monitoring tools. Revenue has risen more than 60% year‑over‑year, with over...
Anthropic Scales Claude Mythos to Critical Infrastructure in 15+ Countries
Anthropic announced that its Project Glasswing will now include roughly 150 new organizations across more than 15 countries, giving them access to its Claude Mythos AI model for scanning critical software. The expansion follows the company's confidential IPO filing after a...
ZeroDrift Raises $10M to Protect AI Models From Themselves
ZeroDrift announced a $10 million seed round backed by a16z Speedrun, Reign Ventures, Pitchdrive and U&I Ventures. The startup offers an AI compliance layer that sits between large language models and end users, flagging messages that breach standards such as SOC 2...
This AI Weather Startup Is Out-Forecasting Government Agencies
WindBorne Systems unveiled WeatherMesh‑6, an AI‑driven weather model that delivers hourly forecasts at 3 km resolution across the U.S. and Europe. The startup claims the model’s five‑day accuracy matches what traditional physics‑based systems achieve a day earlier, especially for surface temperature....
‘What a Joke’: Github Copilot’s New Token-Based Billing Spurs Consternation Among Devs
Microsoft is replacing GitHub Copilot's flat‑rate subscription with a token‑based billing model effective June 1. The new system charges users per token consumed, prompting fears of steep cost increases—some developers claim monthly fees could jump from $29 to $750. While larger...
Does Your CEO Have AI Psychosis? Aaron Levie Thinks Most of Them Do.
Box founder Aaron Levie warned that many CEOs suffer from “AI psychosis,” over‑hyping AI while misunderstanding real job functions. The episode highlighted recent trends such as ClickUp’s 22% staff cut for AI agents, rising 2026 layoff rates, and growing user...
Has the Hunt for AI Compute Uncovered the Next Cerebras?
General Compute, a new AI inference neocloud, closed a $15 million seed round at a $60 million post‑money valuation. The startup will power its service with SambaNova’s upcoming SN50 chips, which claim 600‑700 tokens per second—well above typical GPU rates. Because the...
Vertu Wants CEOs to Run Companies From an AI Foldable Starting at $6,880
Vertu unveiled the Alphafold, a luxury foldable smartphone priced from $6,880 to $46,800 for premium finishes, aimed at CEOs and other executives. The device embeds an AI agent, Hermes, that links to ERP, CRM and over 80 applications, allowing natural‑language...
AI Is Being Used to Resurrect the Voices of Dead Pilots
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) temporarily shut down its public docket after AI tools recreated the voices of pilots killed in UPS Flight 2976 using a spectrogram of the cockpit voice recorder. YouTuber Scott Manley demonstrated that the image...
Trump Delays AI Security Executive Order: ‘I Don’t Want to Get in the Way of that Leading’
President Donald Trump postponed signing an executive order that would mandate pre‑release security reviews of advanced AI models. He cited dissatisfaction with the order’s language, especially provisions requiring companies to share models with the government 14 to 90 days before...
With Aluminum Prices up 20%, Recycling Startups Bet on AI to Cash In
Aluminum prices have jumped roughly 20% as geopolitical tensions drive up commodity costs, making the metal one of the most valuable items in the waste stream—often exceeding $1,000 per ton. In the United States, only about 20% of aluminum scrap...
OpenAI Barrels Toward IPO that May Happen in September
OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering as early as September 2026, according to Wall Street Journal sources. The AI leader is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to submit a confidential registration statement within days...
OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic’s Pre-Training Team
Andrej Karpathy, co‑founder of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic’s pre‑training team. He will lead a group focused on using Claude to accelerate large‑scale model training, a compute‑intensive phase of LLM development. The move signals...
Anthropic Has Acquired the Dev Tools Startup Used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Anthropic announced it has acquired Stainless, the AI SDK startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray and backed by Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz. The deal, reported to exceed $300 million, gives Anthropic control of a tool that automatically generates and...