Author: Ai
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L’Oréal brings Maybelline virtual try-on to ChatGPT
L’Oréal has announced a collaboration with OpenAI that will bring Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature into ChatGPT. The announcement was made at VivaTech 2026. The partnership covers consumer-facing shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, research, and internal content production. The collaboration also covers L’Oréal’s internal use of AI in research, formulation, content production,…
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General Intuition in Talks to Raise $300M at $2B Valuation to Advance Spatial AI Agent Training
General Intuition, the New York-based AI startup building foundation models that teach agents to reason through space and time, is in talks to raise approximately $300 million, according to sources familiar with the matter. The round would value the company at just over $2 billion and follows a $134 million seed raised eight months ago…
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Top 20 AI Robotics & Physical AI CEOs You Need to Know in 2026
The era of physical AI has arrived. Robots are no longer demonstration projects confined to research labs or factory cages — they are working in live BMW production lines, completing millions of autonomous rides on city streets, inspecting nuclear power plants, and beginning to fold laundry in private homes. The global robotics sector raised $27.6 billion in…
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Zaro.ai Secures $5.1M to Unify Enterprise AI Agents, Data, and Applications in a Single Context Layer
Zaro.ai, a London-based enterprise AI startup, has emerged from stealth with $5.1 million in pre-seed funding led by Cherry Ventures. The company was founded by Michael Bajwa and Qian Zheng, who previously built AI agent products at Convergence before it was acquired by Salesforce, where the team worked on Agentforce. Additional investors include Thomas Wolf…
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AWS Moves Toward Selling Trainium AI Chips to Third Parties in Direct Challenge to Nvidia’s Data Center Dominance
Amazon Web Services is in early talks to sell its proprietary Trainium AI chips to external companies for use in their own data centers, marking a significant potential escalation in the rivalry between AWS and Nvidia. The move was confirmed by Amazon’s AI chief Peter DeSantis, who declined to name prospective buyers, and by AWS…
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Turnout Announces $35M Series A to Put an AI Advocate in Every American’s Corner
Insider Brief Turnout, an AI-powered consumer advocacy service, has raised $35 million in Series A funding led by HighPost Capital, with participation from Shine Capital, LGVP, Mangusta Capital, Honeystone Ventures, and investor Omri Casspi, bringing the company’s total valuation to $400 million. The platform combines AI agent Jake, which handles tasks such as waiting on…
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OpenAI Hires Transformer Co-Author Noam Shazeer and Former White House AI Official Dean Ball Ahead of IPO
OpenAI has recruited two high-profile figures as it prepares for its public market debut: Noam Shazeer, one of the foundational architects of modern generative AI, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official. Shazeer announced his departure from Google DeepMind on Wednesday after more than two decades at the company, interrupted only…
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PhoenixAI Raises $80M Series B Led by Sky9 Capital to Power the Agentic AI Database
Insider Brief PhoenixAI, the agentic AI database formerly known as CelerData, has raised $80 million in Series B funding led by Sky9 Capital, with participation from Atypical Ventures and Olive Technology Ventures, to accelerate development of its AI-native database, expand go-to-market initiatives, and deepen governance for regulated industries. The platform is purpose-built to address the…
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Anthropic Becomes First AI Startup to Join Frontier Carbon Removal Collective in $915M funding Tranche
Anthropic has joined Frontier, the carbon removal collective founded by Stripe, Google, and Shopify, becoming the first pure-play AI company to participate in the group. The move is part of a new $915 million funding tranche that nearly doubles Frontier’s total pledges to $1.8 billion. The announcement marks Anthropic’s first climate-related commitment, arriving at a…
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G7 Leaders Warn Over US AI Access Risk as Anthropic Model Ban Exposes Dependency Threat
World leaders used the G7 Summit to raise urgent concerns about the United States’ ability to cut off access to American AI models without warning, in a debate shaped directly by the Trump administration’s recent ban on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models. French President Emmanuel Macron addressed G7 leaders and top AI executives,…
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