Freepik today announced its relaunch as Magnific, a new identity that confirms its transformation into the world’s most comprehensive AI creative platform, set against the backdrop of a new creative i…
Blackbird is doubling down: it led both the pre-seed and now the seed, and now holds 34% of the company. Icehouse Ventures also participated. The founders -Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, and Ben Robertson, retain ~27% each. US expansion is next. Marloo, t…
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Always Friday, an Italian AI-native platform for corporate event planning, has raised a €1.05 million Pre-Seed round led by Vento Ventures and P3 Ventures, with participation from Marco Migliore, Arn…
The round brings total raised to €9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model. C…
Swedish AI company Redpine hasraised €6.8 million in a seed funding round led by NordicNinja, withparticipation from Luminar Ventures and node.vc. The investment will supportthe company’s internationa…
After a yearslong legal feud, Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are heading to trial this week in Northern California in a case that could have sweeping consequences. Ahead of OpenAI’s highly anticipated IPO, the court could rule on whether the company is allowed to exist as a for-profit enterprise and might even oust…
OpenAI is developing a smartphone built around AI agents rather than apps, with Qualcomm and MediaTek jointly designing the custom processor and Luxshare Precision Industry co-designing and exclusively manufacturing the device, according to Ming-Chi Ku…
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