Synthflow AI raised $20 million in Series A funding to scale its no-code enterprise voice AI platform. Synthflow claims its platform has processed 45 million calls for more than 1,000 customers, and saved 5 million hours of contact center operations.
Abridge raised $300 million in Series E funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to scale its AI platform that converts medical conversations into compliant documentation in real-time. Abridge currently serves over 150 health systems; studies show it reduces clinician burnout by up to 70%.
Meta's aggressive AI recruiting campaign, featuring multi-million-dollar compensation packages and outreach directly from Mark Zuckerberg, has successfully poached key researchers from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Newly hired talent will be organized as a new "superintelligence" division.
Harvey AI, a legal AI startup, raised $300 million in Series E funding at a $5 billion valuation—a 67% increase from just four months ago. Harvey plans to expand its workforce and diversify beyond legal services into other professional areas, like tax accounting.
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has raised $2 billion for her mysterious six-month-old startup, Thinking Machines Lab, at a $10 billion valuation. Notably, the startup has revealed virtually no details about its actual product or plans.
Cluely, the controversial AI startup that helps users "cheat on everything," raised $15 million from Andreessen Horowitz just months after raising a $5.3 million seed round.
The BBC is threatening legal action against Perplexity AI for allegedly reproducing BBC content without permission, marking the first time the British broadcaster has taken such steps against an AI company over copyright infringement.
Microsoft and OpenAI continue to clash over OpenAI's for-profit conversion terms, ownership stakes, and intellectual property rights. OpenAI reportedly does not want to give Microsoft access to Windsurf's intellectual property, and even considered accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior.
Meta's controversial partial acquisition of Scale AI, Microsoft's Sora-powered video generator, Moments Lab's Series B, Anysphere's third funding round, Multiverse Computing's Series B, a deep learning-assisted painting restoration technique, and more.
Meta's investment in Scale has effectively upended the data annotation industry. Since news of the deal, which gives Meta a 49% nonvoting stake in Scale, OpenAI and Google have publicly cut ties with the company.
Google has launched an experimental feature that enables users to leverage the latest Gemini models to generate audio overviews for appropriate search queries. The overviews can be played within the search results page on a player that displays selected relevant web pages.
Researchers have developed a new digital restoration method that leverages deep learning techniques to reconstruct damaged areas and uses printable polymer films to physically apply the digital restorations onto the damaged paintings without altering the original canvas and pigments.