UK to develop AI hardware plan

The UK government will develop an AI hardware plan, the Technology Secretary announced today, just days after US AI giant OpenAI paused a major UK data centre project. The announcement of the plan eme…

“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”

It started with word, cave, and storytelling,A line scratched on stone walls:“Meet me when the young moon rises.”The first protocol for connection.Coyote tales, forbidden scripts,Medieval texts hidden from flame.What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics …

OpenAI and Microsoft’s alliance fractures as cloud exclusivity deal ends — Azure’s single-provider monopoly for ChatGPT is officially over

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a restructuring of their relationship. No longer will Microsoft pay OpenAI a revenue share, but it will continue to flow the other way. Microsoft will also retain model access and a firs…

Meet The $250 Million Startup Challenging Salesforce With AI Agents

Actively AI has raised $45 million to scale up its AI sales agents, which can automate a chunk of the work reps typically do manually.

Freepik rebrands as Magnific, unifying its AI creative stack as enterprise and “no-collar” growth accelerates

Freepik today announced its relaunch as Magnific, a new identity that confirms its transformation into the world’s most comprehensive AI creative platform, set against the backdrop of a new creative i…

Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers
Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers

Blackbird is doubling down: it led both the pre-seed and now the seed, and now holds 34% of the company. Icehouse Ventures also participated. The founders -Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, and Ben Robertson, retain ~27% each. US expansion is next. Marloo, t…

News site linked to OpenAI super PAC sent bots posing as journalists to interview real people — site has published nearly 100 articles with real quotes gathered by fake writers

The site has published 94 articles since late December using a fully automated pipeline that drafts stories, reviews them, and deploys bots to solicit quotes from real people under fake bylines.

Always Friday raises €1.05M to automate corporate event planning with AI agents

Always Friday, an Italian AI-native platform for corporate event planning, has raised a €1.05 million Pre-Seed round led by Vento Ventures and P3 Ventures, with participation from Marco Migliore, Arn…

Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents
Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents

The round brings total raised to €9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model. C…

Redpine secures €6.8M to power AI with premium data

Swedish AI company Redpine hasraised €6.8 million in a seed funding round led by NordicNinja, withparticipation from Luminar Ventures and node.vc. The investment will supportthe company’s internationa…