Sequence secures $20 million in Series A funding to develop AI agents that automate revenue operations for B2B companies, targeting finance teams struggling with spreadsheets and rigid tools when processing complex software contracts and custom deals.
Swedish AI startup Lovable skyrockets to a $6.6 billion valuation, tripling from $1.8 billion in July, as U.S. venture firms Accel and Khosla Ventures back the coding platform that generates $200 million annually and processes 100,000 daily projects.
HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah unveils Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), a revolutionary SEO strategy designed to get businesses cited in ChatGPT responses as AI threatens Google's search dominance, while warning about hidden risks of low-quality AI content damaging rankings.
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and licenses iconic Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel characters for the Sora AI video generator, marking Hollywood's major embrace of artificial intelligence technology with fan-requested content launching in early 2026 on Disney+.
AI image generators now produce nearly undetectable fake images by strategically lowering quality in specific ways, evolving from obviously flawed 256x256 pixel thumbnails with extra fingers to sophisticated fakes that eliminate traditional tells like fuzzy contours and nonsense text.
San Francisco-based Dragoneer Investment Group successfully raises $4.3 billion for its seventh venture capital fund in just months, defying a sluggish fundraising market and bringing total assets under management to over $30 billion while maintaining major stakes in OpenAI, Airbnb, and Uber.
Google launches upgraded Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio featuring live speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages while preserving speaker intonation, now rolling out to enterprise customers and beta users in the US, Mexico, and India.
Google launches Vids, an AI-powered video creation tool that uses Gemini AI to generate complete videos from simple text prompts, featuring 8-second clip creation, AI avatars, and collaborative editing capabilities now available to Workspace users.
Solve Intelligence secures $40M Series B funding to expand its AI-powered patent law services, achieving eight-figure annual recurring revenue and profitability while serving 400 intellectual property teams in a rapidly growing $3.2 billion legal tech market.
Thinking Machines Lab launches Tinker platform featuring Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion-parameter AI model with advanced vision capabilities that outperforms traditional models in image processing and classification tasks with limited data.