Category AI Startups

Spotlight on emerging AI startups and their groundbreaking solutions.

Martha Stewart backs Hint, an AI home assistant for homeowners

Hint launches an AI home assistant co-founded by Martha Stewart to help homeowners manage maintenance, records, insurance and energy use.

Encore AI raised $30M to build AI agents trained on customer calls, emails and CRM data for sales and support teams.

Pangram raises $9M and launches new AI detection tools to spot AI-written text and images as synthetic content floods the web.

OpenAI’s sandbox escape and Hugging Face targeting are fueling new alarm over AI safety, containment, and frontier model security.

AI children’s books are flooding family gift lists, but parents say the books are boring, intrusive and risky for kids’ privacy.

Bot detection startup Spur raised $200M from Insight Partners as bots overtake human traffic online, intensifying the security race.

Runlayer sues Rippling over an alleged MCP gateway clone after a year-long trial, spotlighting AI infrastructure sales risks.

Fish Audio raised $50M to expand AI voice models for creators and enterprises, after reaching 8M users and $21M ARR.

Recursive Superintelligence signs a major compute deal with Amazon AWS, backing its self-improving AI plans and near-term product launch.

Hugging Face is facing scrutiny after researchers found deepfake nudes tools on the platform that can sexualize real people without consent.