Partnership ● 1 source disputed · 5%
Events
What actually changed in AI — every launch, release, deal and ruling named once, with all supporting coverage behind it.
Funding ● 2 sources provisional · 90%
Brighteye Ventures announces a $72 million first close for its Fund III to invest in “HumanOS” companies focused on learning and work
Brighteye Ventures announced a $72 million first close for its Fund III, targeting investments aligned with its “HumanOS” approach beyond traditional edtech. The fund plans to deploy capital into up to 35 early-stage com...
Funding ● 1 source disputed · 15%
Brighteye Ventures invests in HumanOS
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 90%
Evantic invests in Profound
Profound (Cooper Square Technologies Inc.) raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, and Evantic participated in the round alongside Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins as joint leaders. The coverage describes the in...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 92%
Saga Ventures invests in Profound
Profound received a $180M Series D round at a $1.8B valuation, led jointly by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, with Saga Ventures among the participating investors. The coverage reports the funds will be used to post...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 86%
Khosla Ventures invests in Profound
Profound raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, with Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins jointly leading the round. Khosla Ventures participated alongside other existing investors such as Lightspeed...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 90%
Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in Profound
Profound raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, with Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins jointly leading the round. Lightspeed Venture Partners participated as an investor alongside other existing backers, includi...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 93%
Kleiner Perkins invests in Profound
Profound raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, with Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins jointly leading the round. The reporting says the new capital will be used to post-train or customize AI models for marketin...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 93%
Sequoia Capital invests in Profound
Profound raised a $180M Series D, which was jointly led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation. Reportedly, the funding will be used to post-train or customize AI models for marketing use cases and t...
Feature update ● 2 sources provisional · 90%
Meta launched a WhatsApp Business Tools MCP server enabling AI agents to automate WhatsApp Business account setup and configuration
Meta announced a new WhatsApp Business Tools MCP server that lets AI coding agents run a chat-based workflow to handle parts of WhatsApp Business onboarding and configuration. The agent can perform tasks such as account...
Research publication ● 2 sources provisional · 82%
Google Research introduces Retrieve-for-Train (R4T), a training-time RL-compiled approach for faster set-valued AI retrieval
Google Research presented Retrieve-for-Train (R4T), a training-time reinforcement learning method that compiles efficient query fan-outs for set-valued retrieval. The approach trains a diffusion-based retriever and repor...
Partnership ● 1 source disputed · 0%
The New York Times and Siena University announce a partnership
Partnership ● 1 source provisional · 74%
Bolt and Arcee AI announce a partnership
Bolt (Bolt.new, StackBlitz’s AI development platform) announced “Forge,” a research preview for Pro subscribers that increases usage of open-weight coding models by up to 50x through Oct. 14 in exchange for developer opt...
Model release ● 7 sources confirmed · 92%
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, new near-real-time speech-to-speech voice dialogue models
Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking as new near-real-time voice dialogue models for conversational, speech-to-speech interactions. The rollout adds capabilities such as extended thinki...
Partnership ● 6 sources confirmed · 86%
Emerald AI, Google, NVIDIA (and Anthropic) announce the AI Energy Management Alliance to make AI data centers more flexible with grid demand response
Emerald AI, Google, and NVIDIA announced the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) to develop standards and systems for AI data centers to adjust electricity use based on grid conditions. Coverage also describes the allia...
Partnership ● 1 source disputed · 72%
OpenAI and Google DeepMind announce a partnership
Funding ● 3 sources confirmed · 93%
Profound raises a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins
Profound announced a $180 million Series D financing at a $1.8 billion valuation, about seven months after its prior $96 million Series C. The funding is intended to support marketing-focused AI capabilities, including m...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 88%
Alumni Ventures invests in Evvy
Women’s health AI startup Evvy (Allora Health Inc.) reported closing a $40 million Series B funding round, with Alumni Ventures participating as one of the new investors. The round was led by Catalio Capital Management a...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 84%
Muse Capital invests in Evvy
Evvy (Allora Health Inc.) closed a $40 million Series B round, with Muse Capital participating as a new investor. The funding was described as being used to validate new AI-enabled diagnostic and care models, starting wi...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 90%
Rethink Impact invests in Evvy
Rethink Impact participated as a new investor in Evvy’s $40 million Series B funding round. The round was reported as led by Catalio Capital Management, with other new investors including the U.S. Fertility Innovation Fu...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 86%
U.S. Fertility Innovation Fund invests in Evvy
Evvy (Allora Health Inc.) closed a $40 million Series B round that included investment from the U.S. Fertility Innovation Fund, alongside Catalio Capital Management (which led the round) and other participants such as Re...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 86%
Catalio Capital Management invests in Evvy
Evvy (Allora Health Inc.) raised a $40 million Series B, led by Catalio Capital Management, with additional participation from investors including the U.S. Fertility Innovation Fund, Rethink Impact, Muse Capital, and Alu...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 78%
Keewano invests in a16z Speedrun
Keewano, which launched its event-oriented database KeewanoDB, announced it raised $12 million in funding including participation from Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Speedrun. The coverage does not specify additional deal te...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 78%
Keewano invests in Andreessen Horowitz LLC
Keewano (Sandstorm Ltd.) announced a $12 million funding round that included an investment from Andreessen Horowitz LLC’s a16z Speedrun. The article frames the investment as backing Keewano’s launch of KeewanoDB, an even...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 86%
Keewano invests in Hetz Ventures
SiliconANGLE reported that Keewano, which launched its event-oriented agent-focused database KeewanoDB, raised a $12 million funding round that included investment from Hetz Ventures. The article groups Hetz Ventures wit...
Funding ● 1 source disputed · 90%
AIUC invests in First Harmonic
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 93%
AIUC invests in Ribbit Capital
AIUC announced a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital (with participation from First Harmonic), bringing its total funding to $55 million after an earlier $15 million seed. The coverage says the investment supports...
Acquisition ● 1 source provisional · 90%
Endra acquires Planlabs
Endra acquired Swiss AI research company Planlabs as part of its expansion from electrical engineering into mechanical engineering, according to Tech.eu. The report says Planlabs’ roughly five-person team will join Endra...
Partnership ● 1 source provisional · 84%
Salesforce and NVIDIA announce a partnership
At Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, Salesforce announced its first in-house reasoning model, Koa, built on NVIDIA’s open-weight Nemotron model and post-trained with NVIDIA for CRM-focused tasks including sales, market...
Partnership ● 1 source provisional · 88%
Salesforce Inc. and Nvidia Corp. announce a partnership
At Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, Salesforce announced it partnered with Nvidia to train and release Koa, a reasoning-focused AI model for use in the Salesforce Agentforce platform. Coverage says Koa is built on Nvi...