“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”

It started with word, cave, and storytelling,A line scratched on stone walls:“Meet me when the young moon rises.”The first protocol for connection.Coyote tales, forbidden scripts,Medieval texts hidden from flame.What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics …

OpenAI and Microsoft’s alliance fractures as cloud exclusivity deal ends — Azure’s single-provider monopoly for ChatGPT is officially over

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a restructuring of their relationship. No longer will Microsoft pay OpenAI a revenue share, but it will continue to flow the other way. Microsoft will also retain model access and a firs…

Meet The $250 Million Startup Challenging Salesforce With AI Agents

Actively AI has raised $45 million to scale up its AI sales agents, which can automate a chunk of the work reps typically do manually.

Freepik rebrands as Magnific, unifying its AI creative stack as enterprise and “no-collar” growth accelerates

Freepik today announced its relaunch as Magnific, a new identity that confirms its transformation into the world’s most comprehensive AI creative platform, set against the backdrop of a new creative i…

Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers
Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers

Blackbird is doubling down: it led both the pre-seed and now the seed, and now holds 34% of the company. Icehouse Ventures also participated. The founders -Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, and Ben Robertson, retain ~27% each. US expansion is next. Marloo, t…

News site linked to OpenAI super PAC sent bots posing as journalists to interview real people — site has published nearly 100 articles with real quotes gathered by fake writers

The site has published 94 articles since late December using a fully automated pipeline that drafts stories, reviews them, and deploys bots to solicit quotes from real people under fake bylines.

Always Friday raises €1.05M to automate corporate event planning with AI agents

Always Friday, an Italian AI-native platform for corporate event planning, has raised a €1.05 million Pre-Seed round led by Vento Ventures and P3 Ventures, with participation from Marco Migliore, Arn…

Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents
Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents

The round brings total raised to €9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model. C…

Redpine secures €6.8M to power AI with premium data

Swedish AI company Redpine hasraised €6.8 million in a seed funding round led by NordicNinja, withparticipation from Luminar Ventures and node.vc. The investment will supportthe company’s internationa…

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future

After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have sweeping consequences. Ahead of OpenAI’s highly anticipated IPO, the court could rule on whether the company is allowed to exist as a for-profit enterprise and might even oust…