2026-08-11
River AI, the startup xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin took out of stealth on June 10, 2026, has raised $1.1 billion across its Series Seed and Series A rounds, the company announced on August 11, 2026. General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the financing, with strategic investment from Nvidia and AMD Ventures and participation from Y Combinator and Temasek. River is two months out of its launch post and [...]
2026-08-11
Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already knows a home. An FCC filing names the first product of that push, the Ace Ultra headphones, expected at a September launch event. Sonos is betting that the value of AI in the home sits in […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]