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AI Business

Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build a voice AI that you cannot tell is a machine

The startup wants AI phone agents to sound so natural that callers never notice they are not speaking to a person. Here is how it plans to do that, and what it means for anyone who ends up on hold.

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AI Business

Dili raises $21.7 million to use AI for the paperwork nightmare of America's construction boom

A startup called Dili has secured fresh funding to help infrastructure projects, think data centres and factories, stay on the right side of the overlapping federal rules that govern wages, safety and the environment.

4 min read
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Everyday AI

Martha Stewart co-founded an AI app that manages your home for you

Hint launches as a free iPhone app that builds a profile of your house from public records, tracks maintenance tasks, and answers questions about your insurance and energy bills.

4 min read
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AI Business

Cognition buys Poke for up to $100 million to make its AI coding assistant friendlier

The startup behind Devin, an AI that writes and fixes code, has acquired a chat app known for feeling more like a conversation than a command line. The bet: personality sells.

3 min read
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AI Security

A $1.2 Billion Startup Thinks AI Needs to Guard the Devices It Now Lives On

Glow raised $180 million before anyone outside its investors had heard of it. Its pitch: the laptop is the new battleground, and old security tools were not built for an AI-loaded world.

3 min read
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Health

OpenAI Researcher Leaves to Build AI Drug Discovery Startup, Seeking $200M at $2B Valuation

Miles Wang, who studied how AI can speed up science, is reportedly heading out of OpenAI to start a company focused on finding new medicines faster.

3 min read
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Everyday AI

Hinge's founder raises $18 million for Overtone, an AI dating service built around voice

Justin McLeod is leaving swipe culture behind. His new company uses AI to make a small number of carefully chosen introductions, not to feed an endless scroll.

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