‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone |

Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After…

Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences |

Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR). The startup launched its messaging-native…

NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning

Tokenmaxxingwasthe hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as faras it would go.Then the bill came…

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names |

In Brief Posted: 10:43 AM PDT · June 17, 2026 Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers CEO Oliver Cameron and…

Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI |

7:15 AM PDT · June 17, 2026 As enterprises struggle to turn AI pilot programs into functional parts of their business, reliability has taken center…

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. |

Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are…

DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation |

At conferences, speakers are often delivering their keynote or panel discussions in languages that many attendees might not know. That leads to users scrambling for…

Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests |

Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just…

This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives |

How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the Bronze Age: Melt some different metals in a pot and mix…

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI |

6:15 AM PDT · June 16, 2026 As LLMs have grown more powerful, hallucinations have proven stubbornly difficult to avoid. Errors pop up in even…