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General Intuition, the New York-based startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise around $300 million

Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, has predicted that artificial intelligence will lead to labour shortages rather than the mass replacement of human workers, according to a report by Reuters.

Theker is designed for that messier reality. Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker’s machines are built to be reconfigured.

This call is open to founders working on critical challenges across Climate, Health, AI, Emerging Technologies, FinTech, EdTech, Logistics, Supply Chain, and other impact-driven sectors

According to a 2026 report from Intuit and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, 89% of small businesses are using AI tools to automate tasks and improve efficiency.

Nvidia continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies — and that’s just in these early months of 2026, according to CNBC.

Nvidia CEO said that AI was an industrial-scale generator of jobs, not the harbinger of mass unemployment that “AI doomers” have often accused it of being.

Aya Data, a Ghana-based AI consultancy startup, has secured $900,000 seed round. The funding is a mix of debt and equity and will be used to scale two of its products

Samsung reached a $1 trillion valuation on Wednesday as shares of the South Korean tech giant surged more than 10%, driven by the ongoing artificial intelligence frenzy fueling demand for chips.

Gebeya operates Dala Studio, an all-in-one AI-powered creator platform enabling users to build apps, websites, games, comics, music, videos, and Al agents using natural language.

The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence.

Dorman said that the core idea behind Era was to build a platform that could power the next generation of devices, which might ditch the app model.