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Windsurf's wild weekend: after failed OpenAI deal, Google hires key talent, and Cognition acquires the company
This weekend, shortly after the exclusivity for OpenAI's deal to purchase Windsurf expired, Google hired away CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and key talent, as well as licensed the company's technology. Windsurf was then acquired by Cognition, the company behind the AI coding agent Devin.
Jul 16, 2025
Moonvalley launches Marey, a video generation model trained entirely on open data
Moonvalley has launched its AI video generation platform "Marey" to the public, along a credits-based subscription system. The company is targeting filmmakers with ethically-trained models and advanced controls like free camera motion and physics-aware object manipulation.
Jul 15, 2025
Wimbledon defends AI line judges amid player backlash
Wimbledon's controversial switch to AI-powered line calling has faced criticism from players and coaches who claim the system is less accurate than human judges. The ELC system has also created unexpected accessibility challenges, and reports calculate it has failed to deliver any cost savings.
Jul 15, 2025
Cloudflare's innovative "pay per crawl" lets publishers charge AI crawlers for content
Cloudflare launched a "pay per crawl" feature that lets content creators charge AI crawlers for access to their websites using HTTP 402 Payment Required responses. With this feature, Cloudflare hopes to offer publishers a monetization alternative between blocking AI entirely or allowing free access.
Jul 11, 2025
Google now offers a photo-to-video feature for Veo 3 through the Gemini app
Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can now transform photos into eight-second videos with sound through a new photo-to-video feature available on the Gemini app. According to Google, users have generated over 40M videos with Veo 3 since the model launched in May.
Jul 11, 2025
Campfire Secures $35M Series A to Disrupt Legacy ERP with AI-Native Platform
Campfire raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Accel to build an AI-native ERP platform that uses Anthropic's Claude models to help finance teams automate processes and disrupt legacy systems from Oracle, SAP, and NetSuite.
Jul 9, 2025
Elon Musk's xAI secures $10 billion in an increasingly competitive AI landscape
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has raised $10 billion to expand infrastructure and develop its controversial Grok chatbot, amid fierce competition with OpenAI and Anthropic, and is set to unveil a major model upgrade despite recent backlash over offensive content.
Jul 9, 2025
Tech companies score significant copyright wins as creators keep fighting against unauthorized use
Two recent court rulings determined that Anthropic and Meta's use of massive amounts of scraped text to train their AI models is consistent with fair use. The rulings will help shape a legal landscape in which creators and publishers continue to fight against unauthorized use of their content.
Jul 7, 2025
Legal tech provider Clio is acquiring legal intelligence platform vLex for $1B
Clio, a leading legal technology company, announced a $1 billion acquisition of vLex, a legal intelligence platform with advanced AI capabilities, creating a unified system that bridges legal practice management with comprehensive legal research and marking the largest deal in Clio's history.
Jul 7, 2025
Synthflow AI raises $20M Series A to scale its enterprise voice AI platform
Synthflow AI raised $20 million in Series A funding to scale its no-code enterprise voice AI platform. Synthflow claims its platform has processed 45 million calls for more than 1,000 customers, and saved 5 million hours of contact center operations.
Jul 3, 2025
Abridge raises $300M Series E to transform healthcare documentation with AI
Abridge raised $300 million in Series E funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to scale its AI platform that converts medical conversations into compliant documentation in real-time. Abridge currently serves over 150 health systems; studies show it reduces clinician burnout by up to 70%.
Jul 3, 2025
Meta's recruiting blitz scores major AI talent for its "superintelligence" effort
Meta's aggressive AI recruiting campaign, featuring multi-million-dollar compensation packages and outreach directly from Mark Zuckerberg, has successfully poached key researchers from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Newly hired talent will be organized as a new "superintelligence" division.
Jul 1, 2025