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Business
Voice AI Startup Rime Raises $24M to Fix Enterprise Calls
SAN FRANCISCO: Rime raises $24 million in Series A funding to make AI voices stop butchering brand names on customer...
Business
Companies Are Giving More Than Just Money to AI, Microsoft CEO Warns
New York: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has put out a blunt warning that most businesses using AI tools are unknowingly...
Technology
Meta Pulls Back Image Feature From Instagram, Here’s Why!
California: Meta has shut down a controversial AI image feature on Instagram just three days after launching it, following a...
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 in Three Tiers, Takes Direct Aim at Anthropic
New Delhi: OpenAI has moved its GPT-5.6 model family out of limited preview and into general availability, rolling it out...
Business
Nvidia Backs French Voice AI Startup Gradium at $100M Seed
PARIS: Gradium extends its seed round past $100 million, adding roughly $30 million with Nvidia as the headline new investor....
Business
Ollama Raises $65M to Become AI’s Local Platform Layer
PALO ALTO, Calif.: Ollama closes a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures. The number worth staring at, though,...
Artificial Intelligence
Meta Ships Muse Spark 1.1 As Its First-Ever Paid Plan
MENLO PARK, Calif.: Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1 and, for the first time, charges developers to use one of its...
Artificial Intelligence
xAI Takes Grok 4.5 Public as Cheap Coding Model at $2 Rate
PALO ALTO, Calif.: xAI releases Grok 4.5 to the public on July 8, pricing it to undercut every frontier rival....
Technology
China’s New Brain Chip Leaves Nvidia’s A100 Far Behind in Neural Modelling
Beijing: A team of scientists in China has built a chip that can reconstruct the surface of a human brain...
Artificial Intelligence
Smart Glasses Maker Even Realities hits $1B for Camera-Free Glasses
SHENZHEN, China: Even Realities raises $150 million in pre-Series B funding for smart glasses built around a contrarian idea: no...