OpenAI announced gpt-image 2 on April 21 alongside a 12 PM PT livestream, signaling a major step forward in AI-generated imagery and multimodal reasoning. OpenAI dropped the curtain on gpt-image 2 Monday morning, teasing the successor to its DALL-E lineage across X and Reddit in a move that sent AI communities into a frenzy before…
A landmark Federal Reserve survey finds 68% of firms reporting negligible AI productivity gains, reigniting Robert Solow’s famous 1987 observation that transformative technology rarely shows up where you expect it to. Three years and hundreds of billions of dollars into the generative AI boom, corporate America is quietly admitting something the market did not want…
A viral debate about AI reliability has exposed a widening gap between the confidence tech companies project and the trust users actually extend to their tools. By the morning of April 17, 2026, a deceptively simple question had taken over tech corners of Reddit and X: do you actually trust AI answers, or do you…
The data platform startup Hightouch has crossed $100 million in annualized recurring revenue, with nearly three-quarters of that growth coming from an AI-powered marketing product it launched just 20 months ago. Seventy million dollars in ARR in under two years is the kind of growth trajectory that makes investors pay attention and competitors rethink their…
SEOUL — South Korean AI chip startup DEEPX will expand its partnership with Hyundai Motor Group to develop a computing platform for generative AI robots using its second generation of low-power chips, its top executive said, as it gets set for an IPO. DEEPX is in talks with the government and investors to raise more…
Startups rarely get AI wrong because they chose the “wrong” tool. The bigger issue is timing and alignment. Teams often adopt too many overlapping tools too early, underestimate how AI fits into real workflows, and move to paid plans before identifying which use cases actually deliver value. That is why the real question is not…
If you were to listen in on a pitch meeting between a venture capitalist and a startup founder in San Francisco, New York, or Toronto in the early months of 2026, you would notice a shift in the dialogue that wasn’t present two years prior. One of the first and most crucial lines of inquiry…
A startup called Qodo, officially known as Codium Ltd., today said it has raised $70 billion in a Series B funding round that brings its total funding to date to $120 million. Few areas have felt the impact of generative artificial intelligence as much as software development. Tools such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code and…
United Kingdom, March 28, 2026 — Coda One, a London-based AI startup, has launched a free online platform combining 59 AI writing, PDF, image, and developer tools under one roof. The platform requires no account creation and no payment to use. The company is positioning itself as a one-stop alternative to the growing stack of…
Highlight AI Inc., a startup with an artificial intelligence app designed to make knowledge workers more productive, has raised $40 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series A round. Highlight stated in its funding announcement today that more than a half-dozen other investors contributed as well. Additionally, the company disclosed that it has appointed…
