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2026-05-17 05:30:04 CEST

Hint, an AI-powered home-maintenance startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, raised $10M seed led by Slow Ventures. Co-founders are CEO Yih-Han Ma (ex-Red Ventures home-services portfolio) and CTO Kyle Rush (ex-Casper).
Pitch: preemptive home management. The app monitors for upcoming maintenance, expiring policies, high utility bills, and repair risk before homeowners would think to search. Launches summer 2026.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/13/exclusive-martha-stewart-ai-startup-hint-seed-funding-slow-ventures/

2026-05-17 02:30:06 CEST

Higgsfield launched its Supercomputer this week, an agentic content-production stack for marketing teams. Describe what you want (a reel, an ad, a week of campaign content) and it plans the work, selects the right generative models, and delivers finished assets.
It integrates 30+ tools, swaps among Seedance 2.0 video, image models, and language models per task, and maintains brand memory across campaigns.
https://higgsfield.ai/supercomputer-intro

2026-05-13 22:00:02 CEST

OpenAI hired Gimlet Labs to optimize its models for Cerebras chips, part of a push to reduce Nvidia dependence, per The Information (May 11). Gimlet claims its software can speed up inference up to 10x at the same cost and power; its work is already powering Codex-Spark, OpenAI's faster developer-coding tool. Gimlet raised $80M Series A in March and reports >$10M ARR.
https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/startup-helping-openai-optimize-ai-cerebras-chips

2026-05-12 19:01:39 CEST

Alibaba is wiring its Qwen AI into Taobao to enable end-to-end agentic shopping. From the Qwen app, an agent can search Taobao and Tmall's 4B+ items, run virtual try-ons, monitor 30-day price tracks, and complete checkout via Alipay, with the user only confirming the final order. Qwen reached 300M monthly active users across Alibaba's consumer apps earlier in 2026.
https://technode.com/2026/05/11/alibaba-to-merge-qwen-ai-with-taobao-in-push-for-new-ai-powered-conversational-shopping-experience/

2026-05-06 01:00:03 CEST

Anthropic launched 10 pre-built AI agents for finance: pitchbooks, credit memos, underwriting, KYC, month-end close, audits, insurance claims.
Claude now runs as one agent across Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. Moody's is embedding as a native Claude app — credit data on 600M+ companies.
JPMorgan, Goldman, Citi, AIG, Visa in production. Amodei and Dimon shared a stage for the first time.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/anthropic-wall-street-financial-services-agents-jamie-dimon/

2026-05-01 21:48:28 CEST

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