Daily AI Grants Roundup – June 16, 2026

Arcade.dev raised $60M in Series A funding to build the authorization and governance layer enterprise AI agents need to reach production safely.

SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60 billion stock deal, just a few days after the space company’s historic IPO and less than two months after announcing a tie-up between the two .. The deal is meant to help SpaceX’s AI division — built around Elon…

In 2017, Respond.io set out to solve a simple problem: businesses couldn’t keep up with customers who had moved to messaging apps.. Today Respond, with its customer conversation management software, has become one of the tech success stories of Malaysia.. The startup,…

Getting cited by AI is easier than earning consumers’ trust, according to a new report from WordPress VIP, the Automattic-owned company that offers an enterprise version of the WordPress publishing platform.. As brands race to have their links appear in AI search results,…

SpaceX has captured the attention of media, investors, and the public for years now — interest propelled by the company’s reusable rocket launches, the rise of its Starlink satellite network, and of course, for its founder and CEO Elon Musk.. But in its 24-year history,…

The Department of Justice on Monday sided with xAI in a lawsuit that sought to stop the company’s use of dozens of unpermitted natural gas turbines near its Memphis data centers, according to Wired .. The DOJ said if the NAACP, which filed the lawsuit in April, prevails, the…

There aren’t many success stories to refer to when it comes to AI hardware.. Plaud , which makes AI-powered notetakers , is trying to become one by targeting professionals who take a lot of meetings.. The company said it has sold more than 2 million of its devices, including…

It appears using AI as a cover story for cutting jobs is fast falling out of fashion.. Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs this year citing the need to restructure their teams to make the most of AI, Robinhood’s CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously…

Posted: Sean O’Kane SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T SpaceX passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, after its stock price climbed 20% on Monday and more than 8% in early trading Tuesday, pushing its valuation past $2.7…

As LLMs have grown more powerful, hallucinations have proven stubbornly difficult to avoid.. Errors pop up in even the smartest models, and while there are ways to catch those errors, the industry is still figuring out the best way to do it.. Probably , which just raised $9…

Over the weekend, Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced a small revolt when he delivered his commencement speech at Stanford University, where he earned his graduate degree in materials science and engineering.. About 200 students from the graduating class reportedly walked out,…

government’s enforcement letter to Anthropic, which effectively forced the company to pull its latest AI models offline just before the weekend, should be a wake-up call for any U.S.. tech company — AI lab or otherwise.. To catch you up on the news blitz: On Friday afternoon,…