Innovation

Chime Labs, founded by two ex-Google leaders, has secured pre-seed funding to deploy AI receptionists for the chronically underserved trade sector.

The 50 filmmakers featured in this year’s Power List represent the early leaders of this movement. Filmmaking no longer belongs to the few, instead to those bold enough to try something new. Watch them now.

An Australian marathoner’s brush with sepsis in the U.S. sparked a mission to dismantle legacy insurance brokerage models with an AI-native tech stack. VC investment soon flowed.

As it announces one of the biggest funding rounds in history, OpenAI has trumpeted hundreds of billions in other deals and products—including Sora—that haven’t yet become reality.

As global AI giants face increasing friction in Washington and Brussels, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has landed in Canberra with a strategic “Plan B.” For Canberra, it is a play for sovereign capability; for Amodei, it is a bid to prove that responsible AI is viable national infrastructure.

The record-breaking funding round comes as the AI company reportedly lays the groundwork for going public.

It made a controversial splash at this year’s AO, and now supports Aussie AFL and NRL athletes. Whoop wearables are making their mark in Australia, as the Boston-based company reaches decacorn status.

Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb wants to build AGI by studying how the brain learns—then translating those rules into AI.

At AI conferences, I spend a large portion of my time talking about the commercial and customer transformation of AI. But here’s what I don’t put on the slide.

The robot gave opening remarks at a technology education summit held at the White House.