The latest AI launches, models, funding rounds and research — updated daily by our editors.
Research
The Simons Foundation has partnered with OpenAI and Anthropic on a $15 million initiative to help mathematicians evaluate AI-assisted research. OpenAI is contributing $5 million plus model access and compute; the Simons Foundation will manage the funding through an open call for proposals.
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Funding
DeepSeek is finalizing a new funding round of at least RMB 80 billion, with Tencent and CATL among the largest committed investors. The total far exceeded its original RMB 50 billion target and lays the groundwork for an IPO in early 2027.
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Funding
RapidCanvas has raised $29 million in Series B funding led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, bringing its total funding to $52.5 million. The startup says its annual recurring revenue grew eightfold over the past six quarters as enterprises move AI projects from pilots into production.
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Guides
The highest-leverage AI tools for small businesses in 2026, picked by business function: marketing, support, sales, and productivity.
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Guides
A practical framework for evaluating AI tools before you buy: pricing models, data privacy, trials, integrations, and red flags.
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Guides
You do not need to pay for AI. These genuinely free AI tools for chat, images, coding, and learning cost exactly $0.
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Guides
From scripting to thumbnails: the best AI tools for YouTubers in 2026, organized by every stage of your video workflow.
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Research
A new benchmark shows model accuracy dropping sharply past 64K tokens, with facts buried in the middle of long prompts hardest to use.
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Funding
Northbeam Systems raised $85M in Series B funding to build two more GPU data centers and double headcount to 240.
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Launches
Helix AI has released Reasoner 2, an open-weight reasoning model with a 128K context window, priced at $1.20 per million input tokens.
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