Daily Brief Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any co March 18, 2026 Mohsin With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business....
Daily Brief Microsoft hires the team of Sequioa-backed AI collaboration platform, March 18, 2026 Mohsin AI collaboration startup Cove is shutting down after its team joined Microsoft, with service ending April 1 and customer data set for deletion....
Daily Brief DOD says Anthropic’s ‘red lines’ make it an ‘unacceptable risk to nati March 18, 2026 Mohsin The Defense Department said concerns that Anthropic might "attempt to disable its technology" during "warfighting operations" validate its decision to label the AI firm a supply ch...
Daily Brief Mistral bets on ‘build-your-own AI’ as it takes on OpenAI, Anthropic i March 17, 2026 Mohsin Mistral Forge lets enterprises train custom AI models from scratch on their own data, challenging rivals that rely on fine-tuning and retrieval-based approaches....
Research MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty March 17, 2026 Mohsin Academia-industry relationship is an early-stage accelerator, supporting professional progress and research....
Daily Brief BuzzFeed debuts AI slop apps in bid for new revenue March 17, 2026 Mohsin BuzzFeed unveiled new AI-powered social apps at SXSW, but its demos drew muted reactions....
Daily Brief Google’s Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all US users March 17, 2026 Mohsin Personal Intelligence allows Google's AI assistant to tap into your Google ecosystem, such as Gmail and Google Photos, to provide more tailored responses....
Daily Brief OpenAI expands government footprint with AWS deal, report says March 17, 2026 Mohsin OpenAI has reportedly signed a partnership with AWS to sell its AI systems to the U.S. government for classified and unclassified work, marking an expansion beyond its Pentagon dea...
Funding Niv-AI exits stealth to wring more power performance out of GPUs March 17, 2026 Mohsin The company raised $12 million in seed funding to measure and manage GPU power surges....
Products Gamma adds AI image generation tools in bid to take on Canva and Adobe March 17, 2026 Mohsin The company's new product, called Gamma Imagine, will let users employ text prompts to create brand-specific assets like interactive charts and visualizations, marketing collateral...