Domain acquisition fuels rumors of a playful jab On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced Dots, an always‑on AI agent with a bubbly, blobby avatar. The launch comes as Elon Musk, the former OpenAI co‑founder who departed to create rival Grok and unsuccessfully…
Space, Pages, and Collaborative Slides Expand ChatGPT into Workplace At its DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI introduced a suite of tools that turn ChatGPT into a collaborative workspace rivaling traditional office software. The centerpiece, Space, is a…
ChatGPT Becomes a Platform for Discovery and Use During OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday, the company unveiled a suite of updates that collectively position ChatGPT as a discovery engine and execution environment for third‑party software. With 1.2 billion weekly users, the…
Travel Bookings Drive Over Half of Instinct’s Transactions In a recent podcast, Noah Shinn, founder of the invite‑only AI personal agent platform Instinct, revealed that more than 50 % of the platform’s transactions are travel‑related. Speaking with investor Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Shinn…
A Surprise in the Code: The Minecraft Poem On Tuesday the U.S. government unveiled its first public‑facing AI chatbot on America.gov, built with technical support from Google and SpaceXAI. The tool is intended to guide citizens through federal services, but…
From App Creation Tool to Agentic Messenger The AI startup Wabi, which originally let anyone craft applications by typing prompts, announced a strategic pivot this week. Founder Eugenia Kuyda, whose previous venture was the AI companion Replika, says the new…
Rapid Funding Reflects Investor Enthusiasm for Consumer AI Agents The $1 billion Series C round was first reported by The Information earlier this month, and Instinct confirmed the deal in a press release on Monday. Led by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital…
Funding Surge Driven by AI and Data Center Construction The latest Climate Week in New York unfolded against a backdrop of unprecedented venture capital flowing into climate technology, driven largely by the surge in AI infrastructure. According to PitchBook, total…
Funding Round and Valuation AI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is on the verge of closing a $750 million financing round led by Accel, according to a source familiar with the deal. The investment would value the company at $15.75 billion, more…
Checkout Expansion Contrasts With Retailers That Block AI While Amazon and, reportedly, Adidas prevent AI agents from buying on their sites, Shopify announced on Monday that browser‑based AI agents can now complete transactions on merchant storefronts. The move extends the…
