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It's officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo&#…
After nearly two decades working as a lawyer at companies such as Amazon, Cruise, Replit and Anki, Cecilia Ziniti teamed up with engineer Bardia Pourvakil to combine their knowled…
The AI era has completely broken enterprise buying patterns, and startups haven't yet figured out how to navigate.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 9/3/2026 featuring funding details for Chariot Claims, Elm AI, and much more.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 9/2/2026 featuring funding details for David, Konko AI, and much more.
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million val…
AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.
Real estate tech startup investors are being more selective about their bets and putting more money into companies using AI and other technology to make construction, property ope…
Blue Voice is trained on department-specific laws, local ordinances, protocols, and guidelines that general-purpose AI tools can't access on the public internet.
Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were AI-focused startups, with Instinct, a developer of AI assistants, pulling in the biggest round.
A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — c…
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.
Ryan Urban and Maricor Resente left Wunderkind - the company they built into one of ecommerce's most widely used marketing engines - to go after something far bigger. Their new co…
In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies developing AI inference technol…
The U.S. employer healthcare system spends more every year and sends most of that money into a hospital-dominated machine built around volume, but a New York startup just produced…
This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or recycling, to another that prom…
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real a…
The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with…
It's the data, stupid.
"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
Our second in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Sarah Buchner, a "blue-collar worker by background" who set out to find a way to help c…
Austin-based ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, has raised a $25 million Edison Partners-led…
Monashees, one of Latin America's oldest and most influential VC firms, believes the next phase of the region's startup ecosystem requires a permanent Silicon Valley presence, ope…
Broader early-stage AI context for the NYC map.
Buy-side equity analysts cover dozens of companies, monitor hundreds more, and still rely on largely manual workflows to keep up with earnings, filings, conferences, and news. One…
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
The team that built the infrastructure powering 90%+ of Spotify's recommendations just set their sights on retail, and the problem they found makes the music challenge look easy.…
The startup's platform predicts which product a shopper wants next, learns their general taste, and fine-tunes continuously based on what they do in real time.
The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world…
The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
Founded by an educator fascinated by the educational potential of ChatGPT, MagicSchool AI leads off a series of articles featuring startup founders from non-technical backgrounds…
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
After a record-breaking June, NYC's startup funding activity cooled in July 2026. The largest rounds of the month still commanded serious capital across AI, fintech, and healthcar…
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.
Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile.
Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the w…
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/29/2026 featuring funding details for Henry AI, Pangram Labs, and much more.
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI…
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in resear…
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.
Early-stage NYC AI news with New York market relevance.
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $2…
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunch…
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Anthropic vs. OpenAI: what senior AI buyers are actually doing with their budgets. We analyzed 2,200+ structured discussions with senior AI buyers in 1H’26 and compared the results against our prior studies. Get the breakdown in this free report: https://t.co/o5Mnaef2yA https://t.co/rJoelV44dK
We've released our research paper "Emergence World: A Platform for Evaluating Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Autonomy". The paper explores a critical challenge in AI evaluation: most benchmarks measure performance on short, isolated tasks, while real-world autonomous systems operate
Registration closing soon! The countdown has begun! Registrations for our Summer School will close on 20th June. We're accepting the last few applications before we wrap up the registration process. If you haven't applied yet, this is your chance to be part of an exciting https://t.co/efRIze6dg5
We're going to start posting weekly release notes! This weeks: Cofounder v1.0.9 is live: - Self-editing agents: update an agent's prompt, integrations and skills in chat - Reset your company to a clean slate and re-onboard - Manage recurring Marketing Missions - Cancel a
Inpainting can now reference any image on your canvas. ft. FLORA Team watching NBA Finals🏀🍻 @ mention it in your prompt: type @, pick an image, and the model paints with it as a reference. No more describing the look you want and hoping it works. Keep products, characters, https://t.co/7OmYDATePU
Your hardest fashion workflow problems, solved live. Kate Burmatnova, Forward Deployed Creative at FLORA, is back with a live workshop for fashion and apparel teams. Plus a first look at our Fashion Studio, a new dedicated set of tools built around the work fashion teams do https://t.co/29mmxFpkLX
Last Saturday, we sponsored the Agent Forge AI Hackathon in Singapore 🇸🇬 hosted by @theaibuilders. Over 200 builders created 56 amazing projects, and it was great to see so many teams building with @daytonaio. Congrats to all participants for an incredible event! 🚀 https://t.co/E00oZXouUM
Our CEO & Co-Founder, Satya Nitta, joins @EvanKirstel, one of the world's leading B2B tech influencers and a trusted voice on AI and enterprise technology, for a special interview about Emergence World. The conversation will unpack why the research was launched, what emerged https://t.co/lQFLsTzRA1
Meet our Forward Deployed Creatives. They sit alongside agency and in-house brand teams as those teams adopt generative workflows for the first time. Their job: solve the biggest friction in creative AI adoption, the gap between what FLORA can do and how a team actually works. https://t.co/eCd2l37hrV
Years at Pentagram taught her the craft, and now she's using AI to extend it. Catherine Chung, Forward Deployed Creative at FLORA, walks through the workflows she actually uses: logo iteration, concepting, world building, typography, systematic design. June 22, 12pm EST. Come https://t.co/0szxtYKlkJ
Our CEO, Satya Nitta, was interviewed on @BBC Business Today this morning to discuss Emergence World, our groundbreaking long-horizon study of autonomous AI agents operating in complex simulated societies. The findings reinforce what may be one of the most important challenges
@daytonaio AI Builders meetup hits NYC 🗽 on June 23 powered by @Oracle & @Datadog. Talks from @daytonaio, @Oracle, @datadogdevs, @useblacksmith, and @AnchorBrowser: agent-driven QA, cloud architecture for AI workloads, how AI is reshaping CI, and more. We'll close out the https://t.co/BtDQqSLMi3
Try it today at https://t.co/0A0pIur1Ec !
Easily set up a content calendar - select your frequency and Cofounder works around your schedule. https://t.co/IUOwCdF5Sy
Generate and adapt posts for multiple channels, with Cofounder modifying formats and copy depending on that channel's style. https://t.co/zZQETmpWqL
Cofounder uses your ICP & competitors to suggest the right marketing channels. Then, easily connect linkedin, X, instagram, tiktok, reddit, and more to post cross platform. https://t.co/ArpR8d7S6m
Cofounder runs marketing campaigns automatically. Set a goal like "grow LinkedIn engagement" - Cofounder plans the work, drafts it for your approval, and reports back. https://t.co/vXhcUhWwWC
Introducing Cofounder's new marketing department. Cofounder sets up your marketing strategy, generates content (video, image, text), connects to channels, runs automatically, and posts on a schedule. https://t.co/5NgazyfScs
"Build me a Snake game in Vite + React" → game runs inside the chat. "Make it red themed" → the running game updates live. We worked with @CopilotKit to build a generative-UI coding agent backed by @daytonaio sandboxes. Every tool call streams as a live card. So does the https://t.co/gLZaJFV4ou
Emergence World Season 2. Coming soon. In Season 1, we asked a simple question: what happens when autonomous agents are left to govern themselves over time? The results reinforced something we believe is increasingly important. Evaluating AI on isolated tasks tells us very https://t.co/5RErYwWrGo
The AI conversation has focused heavily on bigger models and faster chips. But we've long believed that AI progress will depend on something less visible: better data. Bobby Samuels wrote about this for InfoWorld: we have a “data gap." This is the distance between what models https://t.co/yI7V2qg3Tq
Work product almost never sits in one tidy folder. It is scattered across inboxes, calendars, deal files on SharePoint, CRM records, and shared drives. That's why today we're announcing OAuth Connected Apps for Brightwave. Simply connect your Microsoft 365, Salesforce, https://t.co/6wPYnL3Usj
Glif’s agent has access to 18 image models - you can easily compare all to see which one nails the style you need. Here we gave it an anime source img, asked it to recreate it via text2image, then turn that comparison into a video showing all outputs. Which one came closest? https://t.co/xZfvEytkba
As our community continues to grow, so does our team. We're currently hiring for two exciting roles: • Research Scientist / Research Engineer: https://t.co/Fiheq9CK76 • Senior ML Engineer – Agentic Systems & AI Infrastructure: https://t.co/DOLJRInzK4
Summer School registrations are entering their final phase - applications will close on 20 June. If you haven't registered yet, now is the time to secure your place - https://t.co/M6EKr9BoIH The deadline for Student Support applications officially closed on 5 June. Thank you to
This is an amazing Seedance 2 trick: drawing your camera movements on your input image let's you tightly control any scene. Glif lets you do all of it one chat: 1. generate your scene (with any image model, Glif has most, and writes incredible prompts) 2. draw your camera https://t.co/FyptD5DHJ9
As part of NY Tech Week, FLORA gathered creatives to talk about what it means to create in the generative era, alongside installations by talented artists. Speakers from Hebbia, Art Basel, Bullish, and FLORA. Thank you to everyone who came through. https://t.co/7sHJUgCQ4k
Lastly, we at Trata deeply believe in the value of human judgement. In a future where LLMs continue to improve, our aim is to augment human capabilities and enable a fairer playing field outside of just the largest asset managers. Based on our findings, Analysts - your jobs are
Hedge-Bench tasks are built from real world traces given our proprietary data flywheel and network of actual industry practitioners. No models have seen our solutions during pre-training. Prompts are deliberately short to reflect the communication style of actual professionals.
Within the finance industry, there is a lack of objective measuring around model capabilities outside of rote mechanical work. We mainly see reliance on anecdotal evidence and a growing amount of fearmongering from more vocal personalities on social media. The purpose of
Today, Trata is excited to present Hedge-Bench, the world’s first benchmark focused on evaluating open-ended reasoning in the finance domain. We curated 102 tasks derived explicitly from the reasoning traces of professional hedge fund analysts working with relevant information https://t.co/uwyCqgPdfE
What are cybersecurity buyers prioritizing heading into 2026? We conducted 2,200+ structured discussions with senior cyber buyers to uncover where spend is growing and how vendors are being evaluated Get the free deck here: https://t.co/nwAYu6bSpH https://t.co/xt8ASHfGTT
Glif Hacks: remove unwanted music from any of your AI video clips A ton of video models produce unwanted music for the clips and it can be hard (and expensive!) to solve this with prompts. With Glif, you can just ask the agent to remove your music using SAM. Done in seconds. https://t.co/UONJxOgpzO
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