AgentMail, a San Francisco‑based startup, announced a $6 million seed round led by General Catalyst with participation from Y Combinator and several angel investors. The company offers an API platform that gives AI agents dedicated email inboxes, supporting two‑way conversations, threading, labeling, searching and replying. Since its launch, AgentMail has attracted tens of thousands of human users, hundreds of thousands of AI agents, and more than 500 B2B customers. The service includes safeguards against abuse, such as sending limits and rate‑monitoring, and positions email as an identity layer for autonomous agents. Read more →

Yann LeCun, the Turing Award‑winning AI researcher who left Meta after 12 years, announced a $1.03 billion seed round for his new venture, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI). The funding, the largest European seed round on record, was co‑led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital and Bezos Expeditions, with participation from Nvidia, Toyota, Samsung, Temasek and several high‑profile individuals. AMI, headquartered in Paris with plans for offices in New York, Montreal and Singapore, will focus on building "world models" using LeCun’s JEPA framework, aiming to create universal intelligent systems beyond large language models. Read more →