Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’

“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.

Airtable gets into the AI agent game with Superagent

SuperAgent is Airtable’s first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company’s ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.

China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.

How To Become AI Native In 2026

What does it mean to be AI Native? Is it the same as AI Literate or AI Fluent? How can I become AI Native and how will it help me professionally?

Pinterest cuts workforce by around 15 percent to focus on AI
Pinterest cuts workforce by around 15 percent to focus on AI

Pinterest is planning to lay off hundreds of workers and reduce its office space to reallocate resources for its artificial intelligence initiatives. In a regulatory filing posted Tuesday, Pinterest says the reduction is expected to impact “less than 15 percent” of its current workforce, and that the layoffs should be complete by September 30th, 2026. […]

Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures

Flora’s node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.

Virtuix Takes VR Locomotion Public With Nasdaq Debut

Virtuix begins trading on Nasdaq under VTIX as the VR treadmill maker scales Omni One, reports 138 percent revenue growth, and expands consumer, enterprise, and defense markets.

Google Photos now lets you describe how to transform images into video
Google Photos now lets you describe how to transform images into video

Google is giving Photos users more control over the app’s generative AI photo-to-video feature. Google Photos now supports text prompts for video generation, according to the update announcement on Monday, allowing users to describe the specific movement, style, or effect they want to see when bringing still images to life. Text prompts join the existing […]

All rise for JudgeGPT
All rise for JudgeGPT

Bridget McCormack is used to correcting judges’ work. As the former chief justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, it was her job to review complaints about how judges at the lower courts failed to consider key evidence or rule on certain aspects of a case. In her current job, McCormack is working on a new […]

AI Won’t Save Your Business. Your Brand Might.

What’s your competitive advantage when AI can do everything everyone does? 20 years of Kantar’s BrandZ data point to one answer: brand equity.