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A Film Studio Is Selling an AI 'Odyssey' Knockoff to Ride Nolan's Wave
Fountain 0 has released a trailer for Odysseus: The Fall, an AI-generated movie timed to compete with Christopher Nolan's blockbuster. The result says a lot about where AI filmmaking actually stands.
OpenAI Sells a $230 Keyboard for Its AI Coding Tool, While a Bigger Hardware Fight Brews in Court
The Codex Micro is a flashy, limited-run gadget for power users. The more serious story is a second, secret device that Apple says was built using stolen secrets.
A small team, a big bet: Ode and Anthropic want to replace whole consulting firms with a few sharp engineers
A new joint venture is planting AI specialists inside large companies, backed by some of the biggest names in finance. The question is whether a tiny crew armed with the right tools can outperform an army of traditional consultants.
Mira Murati's AI Startup Just Released Its First Model. It Wants Companies to Own Their AI, Not Rent It.
Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling, a free-to-download AI model built for businesses that want to customise their own AI instead of paying a monthly fee to OpenAI or Google.
AI Routing Sounded Like Easy Savings. The Reality Cost Twice as Much.
A team building smart AI systems thought sending simple tasks to cheaper AI models would cut costs. Then the numbers came in.
Whatnot Buys AI Startup Shaped to Make Live Shopping Feel Personal
The livestream shopping app is betting that smarter recommendation technology will help viewers find what they want faster, as it pushes into new product categories.
OpenAI's First Hardware Product Is a $230 Button Pad for Its AI Coding Tool
The Codex Micro puts physical controls on your desk to manage AI-driven coding tasks. It is not the secret Jony Ive device everyone has been waiting for.
OpenAI's first piece of hardware is a light-up mini-keyboard for its AI coding agent
The $230 Codex Micro uses colour-coded keys to show you, at a glance, whether your AI coding tasks are running, waiting, or broken.
Apple Intelligence Gets the Green Light in China, Powered by Alibaba's AI
Chinese regulators have approved Apple's AI features for the country, with local tech giant Alibaba supplying the underlying models. It is a significant moment for Apple in one of its biggest markets.
Rime raises $24 million to make AI phone calls feel less like talking to a robot
The San Francisco startup trains its voice models on real recorded conversations, not scraped internet audio. Its bet: better data means enterprise customers stop hanging up.
Meet Ode: The $1.5 Billion Company Anthropic Built to Put Its AI to Work Inside Your Business
Anthropic and a group of private equity firms have launched Ode, a new company that sends specialist engineers directly into businesses to implement AI. It is a bet that knowing how to use AI is now worth as much as building it.
Vint Cerf just joined a startup trying to give AI agents a verifiable ID on the internet
One of the people who built the internet thinks AI agents need passports. He's now helping design them.
Indian AI startup Emergent hits $1.5 billion valuation after $130 million raise
The Bengaluru-based company lets non-technical business owners build software by typing plain instructions. It now has 200,000 paying customers and $120 million in annual revenue.
This AI Router Cuts Costs by 2.6x by Learning From Its Own Mistakes
A new open-source system called ACRouter watches which AI model succeeds or fails on each task, remembers what it learned, and routes the next job smarter. In tests, it matched the performance of premium-only setups at less than half the price.
AI Startups Swallowed 80% of All Global Venture Capital in Early 2026
Investors put roughly $242 billion into artificial intelligence companies in just three months. That figure, from data tracker Crunchbase, has no historical parallel. Here is what it means if you work for a living.