Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation, Europe's largest seed round on record. The startup will use the raised money to continue developing world models that can be applied to robotics, industrial, and healthcare applications.
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI for copyright infringement and trademark infringement. The publishers accuse OpenAI of unlawful scraping and reproduction of their content and claim that falsely attributed hallucinations are damaging their reputations as trusted sources.
Nscale raised $2 billion in Europe's largest Series C at a $14.6 billion valuation to accelerate AI infrastructure buildout globally. In parallel, Nscale announced the appointment of Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg, and Susan Decker to its board.
Replit raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation, effectively tripling its valuation since its last funding round. Replit also launched Agent 4, a faster AI coding agent that can be run in multiple parallel instances and that can handle more complex workflows than its predecessors.
Recent AI translations of Wikipedia articles have been found to contain substantial errors and hallucinations, causing outrage amongst the Wikipedia volunteers tasked with fighting the endless stream of AI slop that threatens the encyclopedia's survival and integrity.
GPT-5.3 Instant, OpenAI's most recent model update, brings improved conversational tone, flow, and relevance after widespread frustration with GPT-5.2's overbearing tone and unwarranted assumptions about its users' intent and emotional states.
Accenture partnered with European AI leader Mistral AI to co-develop and scale enterprise-grade AI solutions globally, combining Mistral's sovereign models with Accenture's capabilities to help organizations deploy customizable AI systems with greater control and ownership.
Perplexity launched Computer, a cloud-based agentic tool exclusive to $200/month Max subscribers that orchestrates 19 AI models to execute complex, long-running workflows by automatically selecting the best model for each subtask.
Oura launched its first proprietary AI model designed specifically for women's health, which aims to offer personalized guidance on women's health based on an extensive in-house vetted knowledge base, as well as on biometric data and trends picked up by it sensors.
Freeform raised $67 million in Series B funding to scale its AI-powered metal 3D-printing platform, with its next-generation Skyfall system set to expand capacity 25x and produce thousands of kilograms of parts daily starting in 2026.
German synthetic data startup simmetry.ai raised €330,000 from NBank to expand its platform that generates photorealistic, annotated synthetic data for training computer vision models in agriculture, food production, and industrial applications.
OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team, which communicated the company's mission to employees and the public, and reassigned its leader Josh Achiam to a new "chief futurist" role. Achiam described the new role as involving "studying how the world will change in response to AI".