Daily AI Grants Roundup – May 28, 2026

On Thursday, the AI startup Sesame , co-founded by Oculus’s founders and others from the VR company that sold to Meta , released a public preview of the conversational AI agents it’s been developing for over a year.. With its new iOS app , Sesame is rethinking the traditional…

The word “recursion” is the latest buzzword in AI circles.. Two separate startups have taken on the name, and many more have started referencing Recursive self-improvement (RSI) in their roadmaps.. Like AGI before it, RSI has become a three-letter byword for a cataclysmic AI…

Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit.. The two companies are also exploring how to integrate Visa’s payment products into Replit, so that developers — and the AI agents they build — can accept payments directly from customers without…

Disrupt: Your launchpad in the tech ecosystem If you want to raise capital, hire top talent, launch your startup, or discover your next portfolio company, missing Disrupt from October 13–15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West is not an option.. Here’s what you’ll gain by…

Remote , a seven-year-old, Amsterdam-based payroll service provider, says it recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and became cash-flow positive.. But the real story, it insists, is what happened behind the scenes: a 50% increase in revenue per employee…

Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic , pledging billions of dollars a month for exclusive use of the company’s Colossus cluster.. It was a coup for both companies, giving xAI some much-needed revenue and helping Anthropic catch up in the…

Just ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, Bloomberg has published leaked renders of what Apple’s planned AI upgrade could look like on iPhone — including a brand-new Siri app meant to rival ChatGPT and other AI chatbots — as well as how Siri’s new…

Enterprise organizations are not rejecting AI.. They are rejecting operational instability.. That is the shift many founders still misunderstand — and it is becoming one of the defining realities separating enterprise AI companies that scale from the ones that stall after…

YouTube announced on Thursday it’s introducing new podcast features for Premium users, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode.. The update signals YouTube’s ongoing efforts to compete with other platforms for…

The raging demand for computers to run AI models has only accelerated, but there are two major obstacles that anyone in the business needs to overcome: getting the right chips, and getting them into data centers where they can start generating revenue.. General Compute , a…

Luxury smartphone brand Vertu on Thursday unveiled a foldable phone powered by an AI agent that connects with enterprise software and coordinates workflows.. The company is targeting executives who manage business operations and communications on the move.. Called the…

According to Google, there are two.. Google did at least identify that there is one P in the last name of the U.S.. president, but spelled it as t-r-p-u-m.. You didn’t need to be a prophet to predict that Google’s AI-forward Search overhaul was going to go over poorly.. The…