Anthropic acquires SDK tooling startup Stainless for over $300M
Anthropic acquired Stainless, a developer tools startup that automates SDK generation to strengthen Claude's agent connectivity.
OpenAI launches personal finance tools in ChatGPT for Pro users
OpenAI launched personal finance tools in ChatGPT for U.S. Pro subscribers, allowing users to connect bank accounts from over 12,000 institutions via Plaid and receive AI-powered financial guidance using GPT-5.5's reasoning capabilities grounded in their actual spending and investment data.
Tolemy Bio wants to enable scientists to perform AI-assisted cell biology research
Cambridge-based Tolemy Bio raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding to develop Orbit, an AI-native platform that integrates fragmented cell biology data and virtual cell models to help biopharma teams optimize therapeutic development and manufacturing processes.
Anthropic courts the legaltech market with new connectors and plugins for legal work
Anthropic launched an expanded suite of legal AI tools featuring over 20 MCP connectors for Claude that enable it to connect to platforms like Thomson Reuters and DocuSign, plus 12 practice-area plugins designed to assist with specific legal work.
Samsara launches AI-powered solutions to support public sector operations
Samsara launched four AI-powered products for public sector agencies—Ground Intelligence, Waste Intelligence, enhanced AI Multicam, and Ridership Management—to help governments modernize operations and improve community safety.
Moonshot AI raises $2B as demand for open AI models keeps increasing
Beijing-based Moonshot AI raised $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation, quintupling its value in six months as investor interest in Chinese open-weight AI models surges due to increased customer demand.
Tekst Raises $13.5M to Build Process Intelligence for AI Agents
Tekst raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to build its "Process Intelligence" technology that helps AI agents understand and automate complex enterprise workflows by automatically mapping the unwritten rules and context hidden in emails, documents, and institutional knowledge.
Google DeepMind quietly launched Gemma 4 under an Apache 2.0 license
Google DeepMind launched Gemma 4 in April, a family of open-source AI models under Apache 2.0 license that delivers state-of-the-art reasoning across four sizes—including two edge-optimized models that run autonomous agentic workflows entirely offline on mobile and IoT devices.
Dex raises $5.3M in seed funding to transform AI talent recruitment
Dex, an AI-powered recruiting platform for tech talent, raised $5.3 million in seed funding to expand its conversational AI agent that matches engineers with companies. The startup reports it has reached about $1.8M in ARR since it launched its paid services.
DeepSeek continues to challenge closed-source competitors with DeepSeek-V4
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4, an open-source 1.6-trillion-parameter model with a one-million-token context window that achieves near-frontier performance at roughly one-sixth the API cost of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7.
Open-source platform ComfyUI raises $30M at a $500M a valuation
ComfyUI raised $30M to scale its open-source platform that gives creators granular, node-based control over AI-generated media, addressing the limitations of prompt-based tools. ComfyUI now serves over 4M users and has become essential infrastructure for production studios and creative agencies.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge to create a competitive global sovereign AI provider
Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are merging to create a $20 billion transatlantic AI powerhouse focused on sovereign AI solutions, targeting the $600 billion market for organizations seeking independence from dominant US and Chinese AI providers.