Boop, a new travel‑tech startup founded by former Meta and Microsoft AR/VR lead Nancy Li Smith, is rolling out an AI‑driven platform that transforms real‑world trip data into shareable, bookable itineraries. By capturing users' location and photo metadata, the app creates shoppable travel guides that friends and creators can copy and personalize. Boop also embeds affiliate links, allowing creators to earn commissions on bookings. Backed by investors from TripAdvisor, Marriott and Expedia, the company raised a pre‑seed round and is launching on a mobile invite‑only basis with a public waitlist. Leer más →

Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist and founder of the FAIR research lab, announced plans to leave the company and start his own venture. LeCun, a 2018 Turing Award winner, will retain his professorship at New York University while departing a Meta organization that has recently shifted its AI focus toward rapid commercial deployment. The move comes amid internal tension, leadership changes, and high‑profile hires aimed at accelerating large‑language‑model development under Mark Zuckerberg's revised AI strategy. Leer más →

Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, is reportedly preparing to leave the company to start his own venture. The former Turing Award winner, who also teaches at New York University, is said to be raising capital for a startup that will concentrate on "world models," a type of AI that builds an internal understanding of its environment to predict outcomes. His planned exit comes amid Meta’s broader AI restructuring, including the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs and a major investment in data‑labeling firm Scale AI. LeCun has expressed skepticism about current AI hype, emphasizing the need for more fundamental breakthroughs. Leer más →

Former physician Jenny Shao left her Harvard residency to launch Robyn, an empathetic AI companion designed to support users without replacing clinicians. The app uses an emotional memory system to offer personalized insights, such as emotional fingerprints and attachment styles, while enforcing safety guardrails that provide crisis line numbers and direct users to emergency care when needed. Backed by a $5.5 million seed round led by M13, Robyn is priced at $19.99 per month and has grown from three to ten team members. Investors praise its potential to strengthen human connections in an increasingly disconnected world. Leer más →

Codi, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup founded by Christelle Rohaut and Dave Schuman, has introduced what it calls the first AI‑driven platform to fully automate office management. Building on its original marketplace for flexible office space, the new SaaS product uses a trained AI to coordinate vendors, handle pantry restocking, cleaning and other logistical tasks, aiming to cut administrative costs and free staff to focus on culture and growth. The beta, released in May, quickly attracted dozens of new customers, including TaskRabbit and Northbeam, and the company says it reached $100,000 in ARR within five weeks. Leer más →

Dubai‑based Cercli, an AI‑native HR and payroll platform built for the Middle East and North Africa, announced an oversubscribed $12 million Series A round led by European venture firm Picus Capital. Founded by former Careem executives Akeed Azmi and David Reche, the startup has rebuilt a Rippling‑like stack to unify people operations, payroll, and compliance for MENA businesses. Cercli reports revenue growth of more than tenfold, processing over $100 million in payroll for clients in 50 countries, and plans to use the new capital to launch additional AI‑driven products and capture a larger share of the regional HR‑software market. Leer más →

Steph Curry’s venture firm Penny Jar Capital led a $3.8 million seed round for Burnt, a Y Combinator‑backed startup that uses AI agents to automate back‑office tasks in the food‑distribution industry. Co‑founder and CEO Joseph Jacob, whose family has decades of experience in seafood logistics, says the technology can handle up to 80% of manual order‑entry work, allowing distributors to keep legacy ERP systems while reducing labor‑intensive processes. Since its launch, Burnt has processed more than $10 million in monthly orders and is working with a major UK food conglomerate, signaling strong early traction for the AI‑driven solution. Leer más →

Human Behavior, founded by 20‑year‑old Amogh Chaturvedi and his 22‑year‑old co‑founders Skyler Ji and Chirag Kawediya, has closed a $5 million seed round backed by General Catalyst, Paul Graham, Vercel Ventures and Y Combinator. The startup leverages vision AI to watch user session replays, automatically generating insights that replace manual event tracking used by tools like Mixpanel and PostHog. Its early customers—fast‑moving Series A and B startups—receive daily summary emails on feature usage, bugs and churn. The founders aim to become the “Datadog of session replay,” expanding the platform into multiple products. Leer más →

CoreWeave, a cloud provider for large‑scale AI model training, announced an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a Y Combinator‑backed startup that offers tools for building customized AI agents through reinforcement learning. The deal aims to combine OpenPipe’s open‑source agent‑training toolkit with CoreWeave’s high‑performance infrastructure, giving developers a stronger platform for scalable intelligent systems. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The move follows CoreWeave’s recent purchase of the AI developer platform Weights & Biases, signaling a broader strategy to move down the AI stack and serve both major labs and smaller enterprises. Leer más →

Online gambling has surged since the federal ban on sports betting was lifted, and artificial intelligence is now being layered onto the industry. Startups are launching AI agents that promise to improve betting outcomes, ranging from tip‑generation services to experimental crypto‑based bet execution. While some claim higher win rates and charge subscription fees, evidence of consistent profit is limited. Larger players like FanDuel and DraftKings have introduced AI chatbots, but skepticism remains about their usefulness. Regulatory uncertainty, technical hurdles, and potential pushback from traditional sportsbooks add complexity to this emerging market. Leer más →

Human Behavior, founded by 20‑year‑old Amogh Chaturvedi and his 22‑year‑old co‑founders Skyler Ji and Chirag Kawediya, has closed a $5 million seed round backed by General Catalyst, Paul Graham, Vercel Ventures and Y Combinator. The startup leverages vision AI to watch user session replays, automatically generating insights that replace manual event tracking used by tools like Mixpanel and PostHog. Its early customers—fast‑moving Series A and B startups—receive daily summary emails on feature usage, bugs and churn. The founders aim to become the “Datadog of session replay,” expanding the platform into multiple products. Leer más →

Human Behavior, founded by 20‑year‑old Amogh Chaturvedi and his 22‑year‑old co‑founders Skyler Ji and Chirag Kawediya, has closed a $5 million seed round backed by General Catalyst, Paul Graham, Vercel Ventures and Y Combinator. The startup leverages vision AI to watch user session replays, automatically generating insights that replace manual event tracking used by tools like Mixpanel and PostHog. Its early customers—fast‑moving Series A and B startups—receive daily summary emails on feature usage, bugs and churn. The founders aim to become the “Datadog of session replay,” expanding the platform into multiple products. Leer más →

CoreWeave, a cloud provider for large‑scale AI model training, announced an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a Y Combinator‑backed startup that offers tools for building customized AI agents through reinforcement learning. The deal aims to combine OpenPipe’s open‑source agent‑training toolkit with CoreWeave’s high‑performance infrastructure, giving developers a stronger platform for scalable intelligent systems. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The move follows CoreWeave’s recent purchase of the AI developer platform Weights & Biases, signaling a broader strategy to move down the AI stack and serve both major labs and smaller enterprises. Leer más →

CoreWeave, a cloud provider for large‑scale AI model training, announced an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a Y Combinator‑backed startup that offers tools for building customized AI agents through reinforcement learning. The deal aims to combine OpenPipe’s open‑source agent‑training toolkit with CoreWeave’s high‑performance infrastructure, giving developers a stronger platform for scalable intelligent systems. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The move follows CoreWeave’s recent purchase of the AI developer platform Weights & Biases, signaling a broader strategy to move down the AI stack and serve both major labs and smaller enterprises. Leer más →

Online gambling has surged since the federal ban on sports betting was lifted, and artificial intelligence is now being layered onto the industry. Startups are launching AI agents that promise to improve betting outcomes, ranging from tip‑generation services to experimental crypto‑based bet execution. While some claim higher win rates and charge subscription fees, evidence of consistent profit is limited. Larger players like FanDuel and DraftKings have introduced AI chatbots, but skepticism remains about their usefulness. Regulatory uncertainty, technical hurdles, and potential pushback from traditional sportsbooks add complexity to this emerging market. Leer más →

Online gambling has surged since the federal ban on sports betting was lifted, and artificial intelligence is now being layered onto the industry. Startups are launching AI agents that promise to improve betting outcomes, ranging from tip‑generation services to experimental crypto‑based bet execution. While some claim higher win rates and charge subscription fees, evidence of consistent profit is limited. Larger players like FanDuel and DraftKings have introduced AI chatbots, but skepticism remains about their usefulness. Regulatory uncertainty, technical hurdles, and potential pushback from traditional sportsbooks add complexity to this emerging market. Leer más →

Human Behavior, founded by 20‑year‑old Amogh Chaturvedi and his 22‑year‑old co‑founders Skyler Ji and Chirag Kawediya, has closed a $5 million seed round backed by General Catalyst, Paul Graham, Vercel Ventures and Y Combinator. The startup leverages vision AI to watch user session replays, automatically generating insights that replace manual event tracking used by tools like Mixpanel and PostHog. Its early customers—fast‑moving Series A and B startups—receive daily summary emails on feature usage, bugs and churn. The founders aim to become the “Datadog of session replay,” expanding the platform into multiple products. Leer más →

CoreWeave, a cloud provider for large‑scale AI model training, announced an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a Y Combinator‑backed startup that offers tools for building customized AI agents through reinforcement learning. The deal aims to combine OpenPipe’s open‑source agent‑training toolkit with CoreWeave’s high‑performance infrastructure, giving developers a stronger platform for scalable intelligent systems. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The move follows CoreWeave’s recent purchase of the AI developer platform Weights & Biases, signaling a broader strategy to move down the AI stack and serve both major labs and smaller enterprises. Leer más →

Online gambling has surged since the federal ban on sports betting was lifted, and artificial intelligence is now being layered onto the industry. Startups are launching AI agents that promise to improve betting outcomes, ranging from tip‑generation services to experimental crypto‑based bet execution. While some claim higher win rates and charge subscription fees, evidence of consistent profit is limited. Larger players like FanDuel and DraftKings have introduced AI chatbots, but skepticism remains about their usefulness. Regulatory uncertainty, technical hurdles, and potential pushback from traditional sportsbooks add complexity to this emerging market. Leer más →

Online gambling has surged since the federal ban on sports betting was lifted, and artificial intelligence is now being layered onto the industry. Startups are launching AI agents that promise to improve betting outcomes, ranging from tip‑generation services to experimental crypto‑based bet execution. While some claim higher win rates and charge subscription fees, evidence of consistent profit is limited. Larger players like FanDuel and DraftKings have introduced AI chatbots, but skepticism remains about their usefulness. Regulatory uncertainty, technical hurdles, and potential pushback from traditional sportsbooks add complexity to this emerging market. Leer más →