An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise

Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.

Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI

Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot.

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.

Amazon competitor Bookshop.org says Kobo eReader support will happen this year after all

Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike’s IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But low-and-behold.

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Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down as company focuses on AI

TV Time, the popular TV-tracking app, is shutting down on July 15 as parent company Whip Media pivots toward enterprise AI products.

Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.