ElevenLabs Raises $500 Million, Valuation Hits $11 Billion
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs raised $500 million in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $11 billion and signaling expansion beyond voice.
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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs raised $500 million in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $11 billion and signaling expansion beyond voice.
A new platform called Rent a Human allows AI agents to outsource tasks to real people when automation falls short, highlighting an unusual hybrid model of human-in-the-loop labor.
Claude AI will remain ad-free, Anthropic says, ensuring conversations are unbiased and focused on productivity, while revenue comes from subscriptions and enterprise contracts.
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready dismissed engineers who built an internal tool to track company layoffs, citing privacy violations and obstruction of company operations.
Accel has led a $5.7 million seed round in Fibr AI, a startup using autonomous AI agents to personalize enterprise websites in real time.
Fieldguide, an agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms, has raised $75 million in Series C funding as demand accelerates for automation and workflow intelligence in professional services.
OpenAI has introduced the Codex app for macOS, a new desktop interface designed to help developers manage multiple AI agents in parallel and supervise long-running software projects more effectively.
Moltbook, built on OpenClaw agentic AI, lets bots interact and form communities. Experts warn of security risks and governance challenges with AI-driven social networks.
Snowflake has partnered with OpenAI to embed AI models directly into its cloud platform, enabling enterprises to analyse data and automate workflows using natural language queries.
Anthropic is collaborating with Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Allen Institute to apply its Claude AI model to accelerate biological research and scientific discovery.
Sabre says the travel industry’s shift toward agentic AI will only succeed if trust and security are built into autonomous systems from the ground up.
Perplexity has agreed to a $750 million, three-year deal with Microsoft to use Azure and access frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, Bloomberg reported.
ServiceNow has selected Anthropic’s Claude as its default AI model for Build Agent and across its AI platform, aiming to automate workflows, accelerate app development, and boost internal productivity.
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will release new AI models and products in the coming months, with a focus on AI-driven shopping assistants leveraging personal context.
Language learning app Praktika is using OpenAI models to power a multi-agent tutoring system designed to improve real-world speaking fluency through adaptive, conversational lessons.