Kaltura, a New York-headquartered AI video platform company, is acquiring eSelf.ai, an Israel-based startup behind conversational avatars – AI-generated digital humans that can talk with users – for about $27 million. Kaltura announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire eSelf, a platform supporting more than 30 languages and featuring a user-friendly studio for…
After helping thousands of enterprises document how work actually happens, Scribe has raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation to roll out Scribe Optimize, a platform that maps workflows across the enterprise to reveal where automation and AI will actually…
6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind
November 11, 2025
Although LLM-powered AI agents are a fairly new phenomenon, one of the areas where they’ve been most popular so far is in sales. 1mind, a startup co-founded by Amanda Kahlow, has been quietly shipping its sales agent, named Mindy, for about a year.
On Monday, the…
Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT’s role in suicides, delusions
November 10, 2025
Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards. Four of the lawsuits address ChatGPT’s alleged role in family members’ suicides, while the other three claim that ChatGPT reinforced harmful delusions that in some cases resulted in inpatient psychiatric care.
In one case…
Subtle Computing’s voice isolation models help computers understand you in noisy environments
November 7, 2025
California-based startup Subtle Computing is tackling the problem of capturing people’s voices in noisy environments with its own voice-isolation models – a technology that could benefit voice-based AI products and services.
Consumer apps using voice AI are today…
With so much money flooding into AI startups, it’s a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out. And if the idea is novel enough, it might be easier to get the resources you need as an independent company instead of inside one of the big…
Google is adding Gemini to Maps in India, along with road safety alerts and more information about routes.
The AI integration, launched in the U.S. on Wednesday, brings hands-free AI assistance to Maps, as well as contextual suggestions while navigating and information about places of interest.
Miriam Daniel, vice president and head of Google Maps, said the rollout required significant…
Former Meta employees launch Stream, a smart ring that takes voice notes and controls music
November 6, 2025
A raft of voice-based hardware devices have emerged, aimed at companionship, productivity, or personal growth. These include card-shaped devices from Plaud and Pocket; pendants from Friend, Limitless, and Taya; and a wristband from Bee, which is now part of Amazon.
Now, two…
MoEngage, a customer engagement platform that works with consumer brands across 75 countries, says it has raised new funding led by its existing investor, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, to ramp up global growth and infuse more AI into its platform.
All told, $100 million in…
Nvidia and Qualcomm Ventures have joined a growing coalition of U.S. and Indian investors backing India’s deep tech startups. The group launched in September with more than $1 billion in commitments, timing that aligns with India’s new ₹1 trillion (around $12 billion) research and development initiative.
Nvidia has joined the coalition as a strategic technical adviser, without any…
