LM Arena, Recently Criticised for Favouring Major AI Firms, Raises $100 mn

LM Arena has teased a major update: a full platform relaunch is coming next week.

9 Announcements Google Made at I/O 2025

Google unveiled Veo 3, an AI tool capable of generating videos with synchronised audio, and Flow, an AI filmmaking app

MongoDB Stock Drops After Analyst Downgrade Citing Slow AI Growth

The firm also points out that the cloud database market remains highly fragmented, with no clear leaders yet emerging

Muoro Receives $3.2 mn Grant to Accelerate GCC Expansion in Tier 2 and North India

At the heart of the offering is Muoro’s Human+AI platform, which assembles and manages dedicated engineering PODs of top-tier talent with experience at firms like Amazon, Walmart, Paytm, and Asahi Glass.

Builder.ai Files for Insolvency After Raising $450 mn

The company has faced increasing instability over recent months, including financial troubles and leadership turnover.

AI Developments

Google's AI Model Gemma Can Now Run Locally on Your Phones

Alongside Gemma 3n, Google introduced MedGemma, designed for health-related text and image analysis

Yotta's GPUs are Now Available on NVIDIA's GPU Marketplace Lepton

At Computex, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduced Lepton, a new AI platform designed to link developers with a global marketplace of GPU compute resources

Kaynes Semicon Opens International Chip Design Centre in Oman

The new VLSI design centre will focus on both front-end and back-end chip design

TSMC Rejects Proposal to Build Fab in India

TSMC is focusing its overseas expansion on the United States, Japan, and Germany

CloudSEK Raises $19 mn in Series B1 to Scale Predictive Cybersecurity Platform

The startup will use the funds to continue product innovation and global expansion

Open Source

Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux After Nearly a Decade

The code is now live on GitHub under the Microsoft/WSL repository

Zuppa Raises INR 5 Cr to Scale its Kamikaze Drone Ajeet

The drones are deployed by the Indian Army at multiple locations