To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model.
Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous construction equipment collect thousands, if not millions, of hours of video data for evaluation and training.
Organizing and cataloging that video is now a job for humans, who have to watch all of it. Even…
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups
April 1, 2026
Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them.
The AI video-generation startup has launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage companies building across AI, media, and world simulation, the company’s…
With now more than 100 million cameras in the field, Amazon-owned Ring is ready to take advantage of its sizable footprint with the launch of a new app store that will expand its cameras’ capabilities. Focused initially on areas like elder care, workforce analytics…
Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million.
The latest funding infusion, which comes before a planned IPO later this year, was led by Mirae Asset Financial Group and the Korea National Growth Fund. It also comes at the same time that the company is engaging in an aggressive expansion effort…
As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a startup building AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, is betting that verification will define the next phase of…
Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator.
The company’s Series A, which closed 17 months after its demo day presentation…
While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs – also known as AI sycophancy – a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
The study, titled “Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence” and recently published in…
Whatever the final outcome for Anthropic from its feud with the Department of Defense, the attention it has generated – coupled with the company’s funny Super Bowl ads taking aim at OpenAI and the surging popularity of Claude Code – has made Anthropic more…
SK hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant already listed on the KOSPI, is laying the groundwork for a potential U.S. listing that could reportedly raise an estimated $10 billion to $14 billion.
The company announced this week that it has confidentially filed a Form F-1 with…
Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems
March 27, 2026
The surveillance tech industry today is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tapping into Flock’s camera network to surveil people, and home camera maker Ring drawing criticism for building new features that would enable law enforcement to ask homeowners for footage of their neighborhoods, there’s currently…
