Stay updated with the latest in AI grants. Here are the top picks for today, curated and summarized by HappyMonkey AI.
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded
Ian Crosby, whose previous startup Bench Accounting famously shut down in 2024 before being bought for scraps , is taking another shot at building a business out of automating the arduous work of bookkeeping.. His new startup, Synthetic , aims to build a fully autonomous AI…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 equity-free funding is running out.. Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in just two weeks.. If you’re building a breakout startup — or know a founder who is — now is the time to…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are
With the tech industry singularly focused on AI models, Anthropic is having an exceptionally good year.. The company may soon pull ahead of its main competitor, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its valuation at some $950…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Cerebras raises $5.5B, kicking off 2026’s IPO season with a bang
And pre-market trading indicates that shares are going to open with a giant pop, as retail investors bid up the price to grab them.. (We’ll update this story after trading begins.) Even at the IPO price, the company enters its first day of trading at a fully-diluted valuation…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’
Posted: Zack Whittaker Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’ Technology giant Cisco is cutting fewer than 4,000 jobs, or around 5% of its workforce, despite reporting better-than-expected profit and revenue in its fiscal third…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multi-modal data to AI labs
In the past few years, creative marketplaces and platforms have realized that they are sitting on a data goldmine, and they can either use that data to develop AI models themselves or turn it into a source of revenue by licensing it to other AI labs.. Wirestock , which…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts
Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief.. Now, watching AI reshape how people consume information, she sees history threatening to repeat itself.. This time,…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing.. Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, a Canadian law firm management software company, is convinced that legal…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents
Productivity software maker Notion is stepping into the agentic era.. In a livestreamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known best for its collaborative note-taking app, introduced a new developer platform that extends the capabilities of its custom AI agents,…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center
Posted: Tim De Chant Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center Elon Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center, power plants that the state is currently not regulating thanks to a loophole…..
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
Anthropic is looking to court smaller companies.. To that end, the company announced Wednesday the launch of Claude for Small Business, a new suite of services designed for customers who less resemble Walmart and Starbucks and more resemble the local hardware store or coffee…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.
WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
Meta on Wednesday said it is adding the ability to start “incognito” conversations with its Meta AI chatbot within WhatsApp.. These conversations, the company said, will be processed in a secure environment and can’t be seen by anyone.. Users can start an incognito session by…
Why it matters: Potentially relevant AI tooling update — review for integration potential.