Daily AI Grants Roundup – June 30, 2026

Pie raised a $19.5 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to help small businesses get found through AI search and grow.

Base44 , the vibe-coding platform that Wix acquired for $80 million just one year ago — when the company was barely six months old and had a team of eight — has started rolling out its own AI model to support its users in creating apps with natural language.. The move comes…

The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, a region that has historically attracted little semiconductor investment.. The announcement is part of the country’s…

X is making it easier for AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, Grok Build, and other MCP-compatible apps to connect directly to the platform through a new hosted MCP server.. On Monday, the Elon Musk-owned social network unveiled a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server…

Video and podcast recording tool maker Riverside is giving its users a new way to reach their audiences: newsletters.. Riverside isn’t aiming to directly take on established newsletter platforms like Mailchimp, Substack, Beehiiv, or Ghost, however.. Instead, recognizing that…

As companies struggle to integrate AI, they’re increasingly ready to bring in outside help — and service providers are launching new purpose-built groups to make sure they get it.. On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new internal organization for AI-focused…

Proton , the privacy-focused productivity app company, released a public AI chatbot, Lumo, last year.. On Tuesday, the chatbot received an upgrade.. Lumo 2.0 gives the chatbot a variety of newfound powers, including image recognition and image generation capabilities.. Users…

When AI agents begin working for people — and increasingly for one another — they will need a way to find jobs, pay for services, and build trust.. Crypto exchange OKX is betting that future is closer than many expect, launching a marketplace where AI agents can hire one…

AI-related job loss fears grow each time another company announces a round of layoffs .. jobs are projected to be eliminated by AI over the next five years.. Promises from the tech industry that AI will also create new jobs does little to ease fears, especially for the…

Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience.. Starting today, all eligible users in the U.S.. can access the feature for free, a service that was previously only available…

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Anthropic have made a deal that allows California government agencies to use Claude at a discounted price.. This agreement comes at a time when businesses are struggling to manage the hefty costs of enterprise subscriptions to AI tools.. Under…

Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena , which originated as a research project at UC Berkeley in 2023, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue.. Arena is best known for its popular crowdsourced AI model…