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Anna Tong / Forbes: Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs — The same Silicon Va
Samantha Subin / CNBC: Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing — - Palantir CEO Alex Karp
Wall Street Journal: OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI labs seek lasting streams of enterprise revenue — Pitched battle for
This episode discusses the growing landscape of open-source AI models, contrasts the approaches and philosophies of Model Labs versus Agent Labs in AI development, and explores fundamental limitations
Latent Space reports on a rebranding or reorganization where Model Labs have been renamed or converted into Agent Labs, reflecting a shift in focus toward AI agent development and capabilities. This c
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab — S
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of 402M, vs. 488.8M est., and a 4.03B operating loss, vs. 4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B+ in losses since late 2020 — As Meta pumps incr
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the frequently pondered question of whether the AI labs have been deliberately training models to draw
Pangram Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab that develops AI detection software, today announced it raised 9 million, led by Menlo Ventures, to improve the accuracy of its core text det
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI — Black Forest Labs, a German artif
Blockchain privacy company Aztec Labs Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Obsidion Labs Ltd., the British startup behind zero-knowledge identity protocol ZKPassport. The deal comes as government
Airis Labs Ltd., a provider of video analysis software for government agencies, launched today with 60 million in funding. The startup raised just over half the capital through a Series A round led by
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sooth Labs, founded by ex-Meta employees to build AI models that let businesses forecast geopolitical events, is raising ~50M at a ~335M valuation — Sooth Labs, a new art
Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di
Bloomberg: Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs — The $15.6 billion legal st
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a 100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal — Twelve Labs Inc.
Artificial intelligence chipmaking startup Oxmiq Labs Inc. says it wants to become the next Arm Holdings Plc. after raising 35 million in an early-stage A funding, bringing its total amount raised to
Juro Osawa / The Information: Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after backlash — Anthropic is
Pritam Biswas / Reuters: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery spinoff from Google DeepMind, raised 2.1B led by Thrive, after raising 600M in its first round in March 2025 — Isomorphic Labs, a
Bloomberg: Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug di
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West — Lesson
Chris Metinko / Axios: Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a 23M Series A — Collov Labs, which tu
Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — I
Krystal Hu / Reuters: Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest 300M and the US invests 500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training — The US government and
World Labs Inc., the high-profile and well-funded artificial intelligence startup co-founded by the renowned computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has just dropped Atlas, which promises to be a game-cha
Bespoke Labs Inc., a startup working to streamline the post-training phase of artificial intelligence projects, has raised 40 million in funding. The company stated today that the capital arrived in t
Isomorphic Labs Inc., an Alphabet Inc. unit using artificial intelligence to speed up drug development, is reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round. Sources told Bloomberg today that the inves
Salesforce Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire artificial intelligence customer research startup Listen Labs Inc., three weeks after reports first surfaced that the two companies were in
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes can
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base — The race t
New York Post: Sources: the US FTC is expanding a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs, and plans to issue formal demands to turn over information — WASHINGTON — The Federal
As director of HPE Labs, Andrew Wheeler (pictured) is uniquely positioned to observe rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and new developments for the emerging field of quantum computing. Yet
Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a 50 million early-stage funding round to ma
Tom Giles / Bloomberg: Zuckerberg says “Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security” and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before acting — Meta Platforms In
Networking technology startup Ayar Labs Inc. said today it has extended its recent late-stage funding round to 650 million after raising an additional 150 million from an unnamed investor. The company
Stephen Council / Business Insider: A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products — Inside A
Ina Fried / Axios: Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang — Prominent AI researcher Lu
Artificial intelligence startup HeyDonto AI Technology today announced that it has established DFT Labs, a research subsidiary dedicated to pursuing a physics-based framework for machine learning. The
Reuters: Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs — The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hac
Miami-based City Labs launched BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability), the world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, aboard SpaceX Transporter-17 on July 7, 2026. The mission demonstrat
Madison Mills / Axios: Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman — Meta Superintellige
Rental screening startup 100 today announced that it has acquired Cobblestone Labs Inc., a fraud detection and income verification platform built by former engineers from corporate card company Ramp B
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a 40M Series A at a 200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona — Gray Swan works
Artificial intelligence startups are facing two massive headaches: There’s too much AI-generated code to deal with, and not nearly enough computing power to run it all on. Modal Labs Inc., which has j
Search startup Exa Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised 250 million in funding to purchase more infrastructure. The round was led by Andersen Horowitz. It comes less than a year after Exa’s pr
Together AI and Pearl Research Labs announced a partnership aimed at lowering the cost of AI inference through collaborative research and development efforts. The partnership likely combines Together
Process mining software company Celonis SE said today it has snapped up the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-linked decision intelligence startup Ikigai Labs Inc., planning to use it to power a n
Networking chip company Astera Labs Inc. is trying to ease the traffic congestion in artificial intelligence data centers with the launch of the latest generation of its Scorpio smart data fabric swit
Anna Tong / Forbes: AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces — Defunct startups are b
New York Magazine: Q&A with AI researchers Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo, Alex Turner, and others on leaving AI labs, AGI's dangers, planned IPOs, AI safety, oversight, and more — Exit interviews with
Anthropic: Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated — AI systems are becoming expo
Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider: Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a 50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating — A sta
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism — Decision to exclude Ai
Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of 3.2B, up from 300M in April, and is profitable — Twenty three year-old Spencer
Alix Coutures / The Information: Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired — Eight
Solv Labs built a governed agent-payments workflow on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, where every transaction is authorized, attested in an AWS Nitro Enclave, priced for risk, and anchored to a pub
Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models — New la
Liam Knox / Bloomberg: Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched — People are anxious t
Wall Street Journal: How US companies flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations — Companies big and
Max Spero / Pangram Labs: An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% — A first look