AI Startup Zoca Raises $6 mn to Supercharge Local Businesses with Autonomous Growth Agents
Zoca’s AI agents manage everything from discovering customer demand to lead conversion and client re-engagement
6 Companies OpenAI has Acquired so Far
In its largest acquisition to date, OpenAI acquired io, an AI hardware startup founded by former Apple design chief Jony Iv
Anthropic Announces Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4
It claims that Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, capable of working autonomously for up to seven hours—nearly a full corporate workday
Operant AI Launches Woodpecker to Open-Source Automated Security Testing
Woodpecker provides automated red teaming capabilities across three critical domains- Kubernetes, APIs and AI Security
Vibe Coding Startup Windsurf Launches New Models Designed for Software Engineering
The suite includes three models: SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini.
Anthropic Lawyer Admits to Using Fake Citation Generated by Claude AI in Copyright Lawsuit
Anthropic attributed the mistake to “an honest citation error,” emphasising it was not an intentional fabrication
AI Startup Hyperbots Raises $6.5 mn to Build LLM for Finance
The funds will also be used to expand in the US market
OpenAI’s Sora Image Generator Now Free to Use via ChatGPT
Video generation through Sora remains exclusive to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers
OpenAI Plans to Build Localised ChatGPT for Every Country
The programme is part of the broader Stargate project—a collaboration with Oracle and SoftBank—first unveiled in January alongside President Donald Trump
OpenAI to Reduce Revenue Share with Microsoft
OpenAI intends to cut the revenue share with Microsoft by at least half by 2030
Musk Confirms on X Grok 3.5 Will Release on May 5
'Grok is reasoning from first principles and coming up with answers that simply don’t exist on the Internet,' Musk said
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Cursor is Writing 1 Bn Lines of Codes Each Day
Built on VS Code, it offers smarter suggestions, deep project context understanding, and intuitive tools for refactoring, debugging, and generating code