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AWS Machine Learning
Jun 22, 2026

Embed the world: Multimodal AI for searchable aerial imagery at scale

In this post, we walk through the problem space, our architecture on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, the evaluation methodology we built on OpenStreetMap ground truth, four experiments that compared embedding models, fusion strategies, captioning, and search methods, and the practical guidance you can apply when building a similar system. You'll learn which design choices move the needle for geospatial semantic search, including why Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings delivered the highest F1 scores across both benchmark queries in our evaluation. The work described here evolved

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Crunchbase M&A
Jun 22, 2026

Sector Snapshot: Robotics Startups On Fire As Venture Funding Surges To Record Numbers In 2026

Globally, robotics startups have so far raised $18.8 billion in 2026, compared to $15 billion in the full year of 2025. The figure also handily surpasses the $14.1 billion raised in the peak venture funding year of 2021, and we still have more than six months of fundraising left. We use Crunchbase data to see where the funding went.

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Crunchbase News
Jun 18, 2026

The Boardroom Blind Spot: When Success Hides Disruption

Boards should not wait for poor performance before confronting disruptive technologies like AI and quantum computing. Instead, writes guest columnist and strategic adviser Itay Sagie, they should evaluate the cost of inaction, challenge successful business models while they are still thriving, and proactively imagine how a technology-driven competitor could disrupt their company.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 16, 2026

Zapier pricing: Why Zapier is a better value than Make, n8n, and other automation platforms

When evaluating software, pricing is about more than the dollar amount: it's about the return on your investment. One business might fixate on price-per-task, while another might care more about speed to market, reliability, or the ability to scale without hiring. Neither is wrong. But the tools that deliver real business value-consistently, predictably, and at scale-tend to pay for themselves quickly. Zapier is one of those tools. With transparent pricing, powerful built-in features, and the ab

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AWS Machine Learning
Jun 15, 2026

AI Agent Failure Detection and Root Cause Analysis with Strands Evals

In this post, we walk you through calling the detector functions to diagnose real agent failures. You learn how to interpret their structured output: categorized failures with confidence scores, causal chains linking root causes to downstream symptoms, and fix recommendations specifying whether a change belongs in your system prompt or tool definitions. You also learn how to integrate detection into your evaluation pipeline for automated diagnosis on every test run.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 14, 2026

As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?

On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts discuss what looks like a hot IPO summer driven by AI companies racing to go public. SpaceX went public this week in the largest IPO ever, making CEO Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, and competitors OpenAI and Anthropic may soon follow with their own public debuts. The hosts argue that public market capital is shifting away from consumer and social networks toward AI labs and deeptech, with other startups trying to ride the SpaceX IPO wave.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 12, 2026

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch's live coverage tracks SpaceX's initial public offering, the largest in history. The company priced 555.6 million shares at 135 dollars each to raise 75 billion dollars, a deal set to make CEO Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. Shares opened at 150 dollars on the Nasdaq, soared as much as 30% in midday trading and closed at 160.95 dollars, up 19%. The piece also covers winners such as the underwriting banks, a notable comment from COO Gwynne Shotwell, and figures from the company's S-1 filing.

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Crunchbase News
Jun 12, 2026

The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: NinjaOne Leads With $400M As Large Deals Also Go To Blockchain, Cloud Infrastructure, Biotech And Robotics

Crunchbase News's weekly roundup lists the 10 biggest US startup funding rounds, led by enterprise software company NinjaOne with over $400 million. The week's largest deals overall went to European companies: Germany's Neura Robotics raised $1.4 billion and Finland's Iceye landed $520 million. The US list spans enterprise software, blockchain, AI cloud infrastructure, biotech, robotics, and assistive technology. The roundup is a recurring feature tracking $100 million-plus venture deals.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 12, 2026

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources, that French AI lab Mistral AI is in early discussions to raise about 3 billion euros (roughly 3.5 billion dollars). The round would value Mistral at around 20 billion euros (about 23.15 billion dollars), nearly double the 11.7 billion euro valuation from its Series C last September. Mistral has positioned itself as an open, sovereign European alternative to American AI labs, though it has raised far less capital than rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.

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The Verge AI
Jun 12, 2026

Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire

Elon Musk's net worth has passed the trillion-dollar mark after SpaceX's IPO, making him the world's first trillionaire. His wealth, around $800 billion before the IPO, now includes the value of his 4.8 billion shares in SpaceX plus holdings in other companies like Tesla, with SPCX shares trading well above the $138 benchmark needed for a 13-figure net worth. Musk reached the milestone 110 years after John D. Rockefeller became the world's first billionaire in 1916.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 12, 2026

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI's hot IPO summer

On an episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts break down a hot IPO summer led by a new set of companies. The piece frames a new acronym, MANGOS, standing for Meta or Microsoft, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX, with half of that group heading to public markets in the same window. The hosts discuss what the moment means for investors and valuations and what it says about the AI infrastructure race, including Google's reported $920 million compute deal with SpaceX.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 12, 2026

It's hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe

On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane discuss a revived IPO market led by a new group of companies they call MANGOS, replacing the older FAANG acronym. MANGOS stands for Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX, with several of them heading to public markets in the same window. The episode also covers Apple's WWDC, Waymo, and a large compute deal between Google and SpaceX.

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The Verge AI
Jun 12, 2026

SpaceX's massive IPO: all the latest news

The Verge is tracking SpaceX's initial public offering, which let the public buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time. The offering raised enough money to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire on paper, with his wealth tied to a business that includes launching AI data centers into space. The stock, trading as SPCX, opened at $150 per share.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 12, 2026

SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch's continually updated guide covers the SpaceX IPO, which it calls the largest in history. The company priced 555.6 million shares at $135 each to raise $75 billion, and shares opened at $150 on the Nasdaq, an 11% pop. The deal looks set to make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire, even as the company's S-1 shows it lost $4.9 billion on more than $18 billion in revenue in 2025.

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The Verge AI
Jun 12, 2026

Jeff Bezos' AI startup aims to build an 'artificial general engineer'

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, aims to build an artificial general engineer, according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. The startup is developing AI-powered tools to help design physical products across industries such as robotics, drug design, and manufacturing. The disclosures follow a $12 billion funding round that values Prometheus at $41 billion.

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Crunchbase News
Jun 12, 2026

SpaceX Launches Largest IPO Of All Time

SpaceX made its market debut on the Nasdaq in what Crunchbase News calls the largest IPO in history, with shares closing up 19 percent and trading up as much as 22 percent in early trading Friday. The offering is slated to raise about $75 billion and values the company at nearly $1.8 trillion. The IPO turns Elon Musk into the world's first trillionaire and delivers a major exit for early investors.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 12, 2026

Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn't specialize in anything

Theker, a robotics startup based in Barcelona, raised $85 million in a Series A round led by the American venture firm CRV, with backing from Samsung and Aglae Ventures, the investment vehicle tied to LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault. The company says it is Europe's largest robotics Series A on record. Unlike humanoid robots built around one fixed shape, Theker's machines swap hands, arms, and overall form so a single system handles many factory and warehouse jobs instead of specializing in one. The round arrived less than a year after the company's seed funding and came in at roughly double its original target.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 12, 2026

Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world

Prometheus, a physical-AI startup co-founded and now co-led by Jeff Bezos, raised $12 billion in a Series B round at a $41 billion valuation. The company is building what it calls an "artificial general engineer," AI software meant to automate the design and manufacturing of complex physical products such as jet engines, chips, and drug compounds. The round marks Bezos's first operational chief executive role since he stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, and lifts the company's total funding past $18 billion.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 11, 2026

SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever

SpaceX priced its initial public offering at $135 per share, selling 555.6 million shares to raise roughly $75 billion. That makes it the largest IPO in history, far surpassing the $24.9 billion Saudi Aramco raised in 2019. The space and AI company, formally Space Exploration Technologies Corp., trades on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX at a valuation near $1.77 trillion, and the deal positions Elon Musk to become the world's first trillionaire.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 11, 2026

SpaceX SPV investors won't know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift

Many people who bought into SpaceX through special purpose vehicles will not learn how many shares they actually own until well after the company's public debut, because those vehicles were stacked four or five layers deep. Each layer adds a 30-day window to pass shares down the chain, so the lowest-tier backers might wait eight to nine months after lock-ups lift before real shares reach their accounts. Manager fees shrink final holdings at every level, and a few vehicles could turn out to be fraudulent.

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Crunchbase News
Jun 11, 2026

Base10 Partners Closes 2 Funds Totaling $850M To Invest In Real Economy Automation

San Francisco venture firm Base10 Partners closed two new funds totaling $850 million to back companies automating the real economy with AI, sectors like logistics, payroll, and construction. The raise lifts the firm's assets under management to $2.6 billion. Co-founder Adeyemi Ajao frames the strategy as using technology to give the other 99 percent of businesses the capabilities once reserved for the top 1 percent.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jun 11, 2026

Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit

AWS Labs released Agent-EvalKit, a free open-source toolkit under the Apache 2.0 license that tests AI agents by tracing their full execution path, not only their final answers. It plugs into AI coding assistants including Claude Code, Kiro CLI, and Kilo Code, running evaluation through six phases inside the developer's workspace. In a sample travel research agent, the toolkit caught the agent inventing exchange rates and temperatures when its web search came back empty, a failure that polished-looking output alone would hide.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 10, 2026

xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims

A former xAI engineer named Devin Kim has sued xAI and SpaceX in California state court, claiming he was fired in retaliation for repeatedly raising safety concerns about the Grok chatbot. The suit landed days before SpaceX's stock market debut, set to be the largest initial public offering on record at roughly $75 billion raised. Kim, who left xAI in September 2025, now serves as president of the nonprofit Center for AI Safety.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 10, 2026

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

Niteshift, an AI coding startup founded by two early Datadog engineers, has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock partner Jerry Chen. The company runs a cloud platform that routes coding work across rival AI models such as GPT, Claude, and open source options, picking the best fit for each project. Its core pitch is freedom of choice, betting that businesses want control over their developer tools instead of being locked into a single model maker.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 10, 2026

The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX's unbelievable IPO

SpaceX priced the largest IPO on record at $135 per share, valuing the rocket maker near $1.77 trillion and raising about $75 billion through the sale of roughly 555.6 million shares. Most of that price rests not on today's rocket and Starlink business but on three unproven hard-tech bets: fully reusable Starship rockets, mass-produced AI satellites, and a chip foundry. Independent analysts value the company far lower, with Morningstar at $825 billion, treating the gap as a wager on space-based data centers.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 10, 2026

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business

Jedify, a New York startup, raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Norwest to help companies feed AI agents context about their own operations. The round lifted total funding to about $33 million and brought Snowflake Ventures in as a strategic investor that is integrating Jedify into its AI products. The pitch is that enterprise agents stay weak until they understand a company's data, permissions, workflows, and internal terminology.

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Crunchbase News
Jun 10, 2026

Sector Snapshot: Semiconductor Startup Funding Still Running Hot

Investors have put roughly $10.7 billion into semiconductor startups during 2026 so far, a pace set to pass all of 2025. The standout event was the Cerebras Systems IPO in May, which raised about $5.5 billion. Three other chip startups, MatX, Ayar Labs, and Etched, each pulled in $500 million private rounds, with money concentrating on a small group of firms building hardware to challenge Nvidia in artificial intelligence.

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Google DeepMind
Jun 10, 2026

Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Google DeepMind and four partners opened a research funding call worth up to $10 million to study how AI agents behave when many of them interact at scale. The money targets safety risks that surface only when independent agents built by different organizations work together, a gap most current safety testing ignores. Academic and independent researchers worldwide can apply by August 8, 2026, with award decisions expected in autumn 2026.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 9, 2026

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Justin Ernest, founder of the firm Sabertooth, invested nearly $500 million into 10 late-stage startups over 12 months without raising a traditional venture fund. He instead used special purpose vehicles and a captive group of about 30 institutional investors, mostly family offices, to buy stakes in companies such as Anthropic, SpaceX, Databricks, PsiQuantum, and Base Power. Checks ran from $10 million to $275 million per deal, and the firm has already booked one exit through Groq's $20 billion sale to Nvidia.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 9, 2026

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

TechCrunch profiles Justin Ernest, founder of Sabertooth Capital, who invested nearly $500 million into high-profile startups without raising a traditional venture fund. Instead of spending 12 to 18 months launching a formal fund, Ernest used a captive network of about 30 smaller institutional investors and structures like special purpose vehicles and nominee arrangements. Over 12 months, Sabertooth backed 10 companies including Anthropic, Databricks and SpaceX.

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Google Cloud AI
Jun 9, 2026

How to unlock true ROI in software development - a deep dive into the latest DORA research

Google Cloud's DORA research team says the return on AI coding tools follows a J-curve: a short productivity dip during early adoption, then a climb to long-term gains. The report's central finding is that AI works as an amplifier, so the biggest returns come from strong engineering foundations and team workflows rather than the tools alone. Nearly all surveyed teams already use AI at work, yet financial results differ widely depending on how well an organization is set up to absorb the change.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 9, 2026

Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams

Sandstone, a startup building AI tools for corporate legal departments, has raised a $30 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The round arrived six months after a $10 million seed led by Sequoia, bringing total funding to $40 million in under a year. The company says revenue grew more than 40x over the prior 90 days as it signed customers including Wayfair, Grindr, and ElevenLabs.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 9, 2026

How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers

Orbital, a Los Angeles startup founded by former Spin e-scooter CEO Euwyn Poon, raised a $5 million seed round to build AI data centers in space. The round was led by venture firm a16z through its Speedrun accelerator. Orbital wants to deploy 10,000 satellites that together deliver a gigawatt of computing power for AI inference, with each satellite supplying about 100 kW. The company aims to reach full scale once SpaceX Starship flies on a regular schedule.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 9, 2026

Mercor's Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of 'dual-pricing' valuation tricks

Brendan Foody, co-founder of the $10 billion AI talent platform Mercor, publicly accused Sequoia of "dual-pricing," a tactic where a lead investor buys most of its equity at a low valuation while a tiny slice goes in at a far higher price to set the announced headline number. Foody said he has seen about a half dozen rounds in the past six months where Sequoia invested in two tranches at two different prices. Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire pushed back, calling the two-tranche structure a response to outside investors willing to overpay, not deception. The fight, played out on X, exposes how AI-era funding rounds report eye-catching numbers that sit well above what most invested capital paid.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 8, 2026

As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman's eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says

Tools for Humanity, the identity verification startup chaired by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is laying off staff as it struggles to generate steady revenue, according to a Business Insider report. The company runs World, formerly Worldcoin, and its iris-scanning Orb device, and raised funding at a valuation of roughly 2.5 billion dollars from backers including Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital. The cuts landed the same week OpenAI confidentially filed for its initial public offering, drawing a sharp contrast between two Altman ventures heading in opposite directions.

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The Verge AI
Jun 8, 2026

OpenAI files for IPO, following Anthropic

OpenAI told the public on Monday, June 9, 2026, that it confidentially submitted a draft Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the first formal step toward going public. The move came about one week after rival Anthropic filed the same paperwork on June 1, turning a year-long race between the two AI labs into a public-market contest. Because the filing is confidential, key numbers such as revenue, executive pay, and business risks stay private for now. OpenAI was last valued near 852 billion dollars and is reportedly targeting a public valuation approaching 1 trillion dollars.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 8, 2026

OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic

OpenAI confidentially filed a draft registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 8, 2026, the first formal step toward a public stock listing. The move came a little more than a week after rival Anthropic made the same filing, lining up the two most-watched AI companies for Wall Street debuts at the same time. OpenAI was last valued at $852 billion and serves roughly 900 million weekly active users, though the company said it has not set a timeline and warned a listing might take a while.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jun 8, 2026

Evaluate your Amazon Nova Sonic voice agent at scale, no microphone required

In this post, we walk you through the Nova Sonic Test Harness, an open source framework that we built to solve both problems. It serves as a rapid iteration tool for tuning system prompts and tool configurations (run a conversation, see results, adjust, repeat) and as a comprehensive evaluation framework for validating voice agent quality at scale. It runs complete multi-turn conversations with Amazon Nova Sonic automatically, evaluates them using LLM-as-judge techniques, and can even detect cases where the model's audio output doesn't match its text output (audio hallucinations). No microphon

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Crunchbase News
Jun 5, 2026

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: On-Demand Custom Manufacturing, Underwater Geothermal Energy, And Adventure Group Travel

Crunchbase News rounds up five notable startup funding deals from the past month that flew under the radar. The featured rounds include SendCutSend, a custom metal manufacturer that took its first outside funding, and Nourish, a metabolic health startup. The column highlights deals spanning manufacturing, healthcare and other sectors.

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NVIDIA Blog
Jun 3, 2026

NVIDIA Enables the Next Era Of Physical AI Research With Agent Skills For Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics And Vision AI

At CVPR, NVIDIA unveiled new physical AI agent skills meant to speed development of autonomous vehicles, robots, and vision AI systems. The skills, powered by NVIDIA Cosmos 3, help researchers with data generation, simulation, policy training, and evaluation. NVIDIA frames the core challenge as building a full workflow around models rather than only making stronger models, since steps like scene reconstruction and scenario generation are often fragmented across separate tools. The announcement spans autonomous vehicle, robotics, and vision AI workflows.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jun 2, 2026

Why Aren't We Measuring How AI Affects Humans?

Most AI evaluation measures what models can do on technical tests, but very little measures what AI does to the humans who use it. Imran Khan, who leads psychosocial evaluation of AI at the nonprofit Center for Humane Technology, argues in a Substack essay and an IEEE Spectrum interview that this is a strange paradox. He says high-profile harms such as teen suicides and AI psychosis are already visible, and that the industry should start measuring AI's effects on cognition, relationships and well-being before broader societal harms become entrenched.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
May 25, 2026

AI with Model-Based Design: Virtual Sensor Modeling

This on-demand webinar, sponsored by MathWorks and presented with IEEE Spectrum and Wiley, covers a workflow for AI-based virtual sensor modeling. It shows how AI-based virtual sensors can estimate signals that are difficult or costly to measure, such as battery state of charge in Battery Management Systems. The session demonstrates designing, training, validating, verifying, compressing, and deploying these models to embedded processors within a single environment.

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Crunchbase M&A
Apr 20, 2026

Cybersecurity Funding Holds Up At Robust Levels

Cybersecurity funding stayed strong in the first quarter of 2026, with investors putting $4.9 billion into security- and privacy-focused startups globally, according to Crunchbase. Funding dipped slightly on a sequential basis but remained well above year-ago levels, with round counts holding steady at just under 200. AI was the dominant trend, capturing most cybersecurity funding and shaping the quarter's largest acquisitions.

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Crunchbase M&A
Apr 1, 2026

Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To $300B

Crunchbase data shows global venture investment hit an all-time high in the first quarter of 2026, with investors putting $300 billion into 6,000 startups, up more than 150% both quarter over quarter and year over year. AI drove the surge, capturing $242 billion, or 80% of total global venture funding. A small group of US-based frontier labs and a self-driving company accounted for most of the largest deals, with funding heavily concentrated in late-stage rounds.

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VentureBeat AI
Jan 22, 2026

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform with two million developers, raised $100 million in a Series B round to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure. The company argues that legacy deploy tools designed for a slower era have become bottlenecks now that AI coding assistants generate working code in seconds. TQ Ventures led the round, and Railway claims deployments in under one second after deciding in 2024 to leave Google Cloud and build its own data centers.

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VentureBeat AI
Jan 16, 2026

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Listen Labs, a startup building AI-powered customer interviews, raised $69 million in Series B funding led by Ribbit Capital. Founder Alfred Wahlforss drew attention with a $5,000 San Francisco billboard that hid a coding challenge based on the Berlin nightclub Berghain. The round values the company at $500 million and brings total capital to $100 million. Listen replaces traditional surveys and one-on-one interviews with an AI researcher that finds participants and conducts in-depth interviews.

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OpenAI
Dec 18, 2025

Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability

OpenAI introduces a new framework and evaluation suite for chain-of-thought monitorability, covering 13 evaluations across 24 environments. Our findings show that monitoring a model's internal reasoning is far more effective than monitoring outputs alone, offering a promising path toward scalable control as AI systems grow more capable.

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OpenAI
Oct 29, 2025

gpt-oss-safeguard technical report

gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b are two open-weight reasoning models post-trained from the gpt-oss models and trained to reason from a provided policy in order to label content under that policy. In this report, we describe gpt-oss-safeguard's capabilities and provide our baseline safety evaluations on the gpt-oss-safeguard models, using the underlying gpt-oss models as a baseline. For more information about the development and architecture of the underlying gpt-oss models, see the original gpt-oss model model card⁠.

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OpenAI
Jan 23, 2025

Operator System Card

Drawing from OpenAI's established safety frameworks, this document highlights our multi-layered approach, including model and product mitigations we've implemented to protect against prompt engineering and jailbreaks, protect privacy and security, as well as details our external red teaming efforts, safety evaluations, and ongoing work to further refine these safeguards.

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OpenAI
Jan 31, 2024

Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

We're developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not large enough to be conclusive, our finding is a starting point for continued research and community deliberation.

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OpenAI
Jun 13, 2022

AI-written critiques help humans notice flaws

We trained "critique-writing" models to describe flaws in summaries. Human evaluators find flaws in summaries much more often when shown our model's critiques. Larger models are better at self-critiquing, with scale improving critique-writing more than summary-writing. This shows promise for using AI systems to assist human supervision of AI systems on difficult tasks.

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OpenAI
Apr 16, 2020

Improving verifiability in AI development

We've contributed to a multi-stakeholder report by 58 co-authors at 30 organizations, including the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Mila, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and Center for Security and Emerging Technologies. This report describes 10 mechanisms to improve the verifiability of claims made about AI systems. Developers can use these tools to provide evidence that AI systems are safe, secure, fair, or privacy-preserving. Users, policymakers, and civil society can use these tools to evaluate AI developme

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OpenAI
Aug 22, 2019

Testing robustness against unforeseen adversaries

We've developed a method to assess whether a neural network classifier can reliably defend against adversarial attacks not seen during training. Our method yields a new metric, UAR (Unforeseen Attack Robustness), which evaluates the robustness of a single model against an unanticipated attack, and highlights the need to measure performance across a more diverse range of unforeseen attacks.

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