Events

Partnership ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago disputed · 12%

Listen Labs and Salesforce announce a partnership

Feature update ● 3 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 92%

OpenAI introduced the Agents API, a public-beta managed API for building and running long-running cloud-based AI agents

OpenAI launched the Agents API in public beta, providing a managed interface for orchestrating long-running agent sessions with tools and other capabilities powered by Codex harness. The coverage indicates developers can...

Model release ● 2 sources first seen 1 week ago provisional · 86%

OpenAI releases GPT‑Live‑1 as an API option for natural full‑duplex voice conversations, including custom voices and telephony support

OpenAI introduced GPT‑Live‑1 in its API to let developers build natural, full‑duplex voice experiences similar to ChatGPT voice mode. The update adds capabilities such as custom voices and telephony support, and the repo...

Funding ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 87%

Andreessen Horowitz invests in Lightfield

Lightfield (Magical Tome Inc.) raised a $47 million Series A round to build an AI agent-ready replacement for Salesforce and other legacy CRMs. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from multiple o...

Funding ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 86%

Goldman Sachs invests in Harvey AI Corp.

Harvey AI Corp. raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, with Goldman Sachs participating among other backers. The funds were reported as supporting expansion of Harvey’s cloud platform and proprietary AI capabi...

Funding ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 78%

Kleiner Perkins invests in Harvey AI Corp.

Harvey AI Corp. raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation to expand its cloud platform and proprietary knowledge/AI capabilities for legal teams. The round was led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners and...

Funding ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 86%

Sequoia Capital invests in Harvey AI Corp.

Harvey AI Corp. raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation to expand its cloud platform of AI tools for legal teams, including further development of its “new generalist models” and computing infrastructure for AI...

Funding ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 93%

Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in Harvey AI Corp.

Harvey AI Corp. raised $550 million at a reported $15.5 billion valuation to expand its cloud platform and AI tools for legal teams. The round was led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with other participatin...

Funding ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 90%

Diffusion invests in Harvey AI Corp.

Harvey AI Corp. raised an additional $550 million at a reported $15.5 billion valuation to expand its cloud platform of AI tools for legal teams. The round was led by Diffusion (along with Lightspeed Venture Partners), w...

Conference announcement ● 2 sources first seen 1 week ago provisional · 74%

TheCUBE Research announced its Sept. 11 “AI ROI in Contact Center Summit” focused on measuring economic value from contact center AI deployments

TheCUBE Research is hosting a Sept. 11 summit examining whether AI used in contact centers produces measurable ROI rather than only broad automation benefits. The coverage says the agenda will emphasize KPI-based evaluat...

Security issue ● 8 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 86%

US NSA, CISA, and FBI issued an advisory accusing six Chinese AI firms of bulk distillation of capabilities from US frontier models

The US National Security Agency, CISA, and the FBI alleged that six Chinese AI firms used industrial-scale distillation to extract capabilities from US frontier AI models and incorporate them into their own systems. Cove...

Deployment ● 3 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 90%

Amazon makes its agentic AI platform Quick generally available for desktop on Windows and macOS and adds an updated mobile activity feed

Amazon announced that its agentic AI platform Quick is now generally available on desktop for macOS and Windows for enterprise use. The update also includes an updated mobile activity feed on iOS and Android that consoli...

Partnership ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 85%

Apple and Quest announce a partnership

Apple announced a partnership with Quest as part of its revamped Apple Health app, which will integrate lab biomarker results via a 50-biomarker panel priced at $119. The update adds features such as a readiness score an...

Partnership ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 92%

Google and Fortum announce a partnership

Google announced a €13bn investment package for AI infrastructure in Finland, including a 22-year contract with Fortum to purchase up to 50% of the electricity output from the Loviisa nuclear power plant. The coverage sa...

Executive move ● 2 sources first seen 1 week ago provisional · 78%

Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee

Paul Christiano was appointed to the OpenAI Foundation’s board and to its Safety and Security Committee. Coverage describes the move as strengthening governance related to AI safety and oversight, including amid renewed...

Policy change ● 2 sources first seen 1 week ago provisional · 66%

ControlAI executive Connor Leahy argues for U.S. legal limits on developing superintelligent AI, citing the proposed Sanders–Casar “Ban Superintelligence Act”

On TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, ControlAI’s U.S. Executive Director Connor Leahy said that banning or limiting superintelligence should rely on legal limits rather than alignment and containment alone. He pointed to the...

Product launch ● 7 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 92%

Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max with a variable-aperture main camera and a new Photo verification feature

Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, featuring an A20 Pro chip and a variable-mechanical aperture main camera. The devices also introduce “Reference Image,” a feature intended to verify whether iPhone...

Incident ● 2 sources first seen 1 week ago provisional · 35%

Public backlash followed claims that a Wall Street Journal op-ed was AI-assisted, renewing debate over disclosure for AI-assisted writing

An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal was suspected by some readers and commentators of being drafted with AI, prompting public backlash and counterarguments about authorship and disclosure. The coverage also conne...

Benchmark result ● 2 sources first seen 1 week ago provisional · 48%

New benchmarks and benchmark results were published to evaluate AI agents’ end-to-end commercial performance and their ability to build other agents

Alibaba’s Accio team released CommerceAgentBench, an open-source benchmark that scores AI agents based on end-to-end outcomes in e-commerce tasks rather than only model reasoning. Separate coverage also reported results...

Product launch ● 10 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 90%

Apple unveiled and began pre-orders for its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, alongside iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, and Siri/Apple Intelligence updates

Apple held its fall iPhone hardware launch event featuring the first-ever foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, with pre-orders beginning October 16 and shipping starting October 23. The event also included updates across iPh...

Acquisition ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 74%

Simon & Schuster acquires H.M. Wolfe

The coverage reports that Simon & Schuster picked up science fiction romance novelist H.M. Wolfe’s self-published best-selling novel in a “seven-figure” deal after her book had gained popularity. Shortly thereafter, Wolf...

Funding ● 1 source first seen 1 week ago provisional · 92%

Igor Tulchinsky invests in British Museum

Fortune Startups reports that billionaire Igor Tulchinsky, founder of WorldQuant, donated £5m (about $6.8m) to the British Museum to support the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition in 2026. The coverage links his funding to World...

Product launch ● 4 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 90%

Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, featuring the S11 chip and new health sensing and Apple Intelligence features

Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, including a move to the S11 chip and upgrades to health sensing capabilities. The announcement also covers new Apple Intelligence–powered watch and Apple...

Feature update ● 5 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 72%

Apple announced an iOS 27 release on September 14 featuring Siri AI beta rollout and new platform AI capabilities

Apple said iOS 27 will launch on September 14 with a Siri AI beta starting on English-only devices, with additional languages planned for October. Coverage also describes broader “intelligent personal hub” AI positioning...

Feature update ● 4 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 86%

Apple announces Apple Watch Series 12 and related models with new “Audio Intelligence” Siri features for on-device live transcription and audio recaps, including a Live Rewind function

Apple announced new Apple Watch “Audio Intelligence” capabilities that let Siri transcribe and summarize ambient audio, including a Live Rewind feature that replays and transcribes the last 15 seconds of recently detecte...

Funding ● 3 sources first seen 1 week ago confirmed · 90%