A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B
The team behind Aaru is attracting brands including McDonald's and EY by betting AI bots can predict human behavior better than humans can
OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, for “a limited set of customers”
Think HR, but for AI. … Managing humans is hard. Managing AI agents is... also hard. That's why OpenAI is launching …
Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai have each discussed building lunar and orbital AI data centers to leverage constant solar power and bypass regulations
no clouds, no rainstorms, no night. Demand for cooling could also be cut, writes @timhiggins https://www.wsj.com/... LinkedIn: Philip Johnston : Interesting piece in The Wall Street Journal on data ce...
Sources: ex-xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for Humans&, which aims to train AI that is better at collaborating with humans
Humans& is building models that are better at interacting with humans, sources told Forbes.
Robots that collaborate with humans, or “cobots”, are bringing automation to even the smallest US factories, as the US tries to reshore foreign manufacturing
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal :
At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an “agentic OS”
Salesforce announced a series of product updates, a process intelligence acquisition and an Agentforce 360 architecture designed …
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised a $2B seed led by a16z at a $12B valuation; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, and Jane Street also invested
bsky.app/profile/wire... [embedded post] @akhilrao : i feel like i've known Murati is at a startup called Thinking Machine Labs for months. maybe idk what “stealth” means [embedded post] Michael / @f...
Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
It's a total reshaping of how people make money on the internet. Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/c... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell.com : “Deeply concerned that the incentives for content creatio...
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for his initial comments on Zoom's Q1 earnings call on May 21; Klarna's CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings on May 19
That's what Klarna just reported. Largely thanks to smart AI integration. — https://lnkd.in/... … Georg Zoeller : Klarna is a front runner at replacing humans with AI and then quietly undoing when ...