AI Business Pulse

Ex-Spotify engineers are channeling their proven recommendation expertise into vertical AI startups, targeting e-commerce's personalization gaps.

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• Hadrian raised nearly $1.4B at a $7.9B valuation—nearly 5x its January level—led by mainstream investors including JPMorgan and Baillie Gifford.
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Google Cloud secured a multiyear, $100M+ deal with Mirendil to power its recursive self-improving AI research, giving the startup access to TPUs,...

Omilia's $67M Series B highlights accelerating enterprise adoption of agentic voice AI for high-volume contact centers. Targeting regulated...

IMC, a global trading firm, is significantly scaling its CoreWeave AI cloud deployment—including CKS—to accelerate research experiments and handle...

Two AI-focused fintechs just hit unicorn status by targeting specific financial pain points with controlled automation.

• Moss raised €30m to exceed...

Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI startup automating scientific research.

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DeepSeek plans a significant price increase for its API services, per a banner on user dashboards warning customers to plan usage accordingly. The...

Google Maps is embedding agentic AI to let users order food, book hotels, and buy tickets directly in the app, shifting from search to completing...

Microsoft's AI revenue shows deep dependency on OpenAI, with filings indicating around 70% tied to the partnership. This circular setup—where OpenAI...

Investors are doubling down on specialized AI agents for enterprise, with fresh rounds signaling strong bets on vertical applications.

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Jeff Dean and longtime collaborators Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit...

Two startups highlight a clear trend: AI startups targeting climate challenges are drawing serious venture capital.

• Mitti Labs closed a $9.5M...

Reddit launches Rules Hub, an LLM tool that evaluates posts and comments against subreddit rules with better context than keyword-based Automod.

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• Cost crisis intensifies: Gartner forecasts over 40% of agentic AI projects canceled by 2027, with escalating costs cited first.
• Sapiom's edge:...

Four top Google researchers, including Jeff Dean, are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, an AI-for-science startup automating experimental loops for...

Meta is releasing Muse Code in beta to address pressure on monetizing its AI spending through developer tools.

• The terminal agent handles full...

• Thomson Reuters lifted its full-year organic revenue forecast to 8% on AI rollout momentum, with Q2 revenue up 9% to $1.95B and 32% of contract...

Anthropic is assembling an in-house team to design custom silicon for its Claude models, seeking greater control over speed, efficiency, and supply...

Moss became a unicorn with €30M Series C at over €1B valuation, hitting €70M ARR through spend management and Finance AI agents that process 2M+...