Shipt, the same-day delivery platform owned by Target, introduced its own AI shopping assistant on September 9, 2026, joining a wave of delivery apps racing to embed conversational AI into the grocery-buying experience. The new tool, called “Ask Shipt,” is available now in the Shipt app and on Shipt.com, according to the company. Ask Shipt […]
Instinct, the AI assistant that rocketed to a $2.5 billion valuation, is giving every user a dedicated email address — a move that lets the agent act more independently when signing up for services, contacting businesses, or managing tasks on a user’s behalf. Founder Noah Shinn announced the feature on X on September 8, 2026, […]
Sequoia Capital is doubling down on a startup that aims to solve a growing problem for enterprises: securing the AI agents now handling sensitive corporate data at machine speed. The venture firm co-led a $25 million Series A round for Cymphony, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based company, with SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, valuing […]
Cognition, the startup behind the AI coding assistant Devin, has raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, the company announced Tuesday. The round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir, comes just four months after Cognition’s previous fundraise at a $26 billion valuation — a sign that venture investors still […]
French AI lab Mistral AI announced Tuesday that it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion (about $24.39 billion), confirming earlier reports. The round, which Mistral called “the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company,” was led […]
The AI industry moves fast enough that its own vocabulary can leave even seasoned technologists scrambling. On September 1, 2026, OpenAI released Astra, its new reasoning model, and with it introduced a term that has since dominated safety discussions: “opaque recurrence.” That single phrase — describing a technique where the model loops queries through its […]
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on September 5, 2026, escalating the publishing industry’s legal confrontation with generative AI companies. The lawsuit, reported by TechCrunch, alleges that the companies used the newspapers’ journalism to train AI models like ChatGPT and Copilot without authorization or compensation. The complaint […]
Instagram announced Monday that it will begin limiting the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people that are not clearly labeled as such. The platform is renaming its existing “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile,” a change the company says will make the disclosure clearer for users. The new label is designed to inform users when […]
Circleback, a Y Combinator-backed meeting notetaker, is introducing a free subscription tier as competition in the crowded meeting transcription market intensifies. The new plan, announced this week, allows users to transcribe unlimited meetings and access their history for the past 30 days, a move aimed at lowering the barrier to entry and attracting a broader […]
Elon Musk confirmed on Saturday that a secret SpaceX foundry in Bastrop, Texas, is being used to cast gas turbine blades and vanes — a component he called the limiting factor for natural gas turbine production. In a post on X, Musk said in-house casting could accelerate gas turbines coming online by up to 18 […]
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