XDOF surfaced from stealth in June 2026 with a $70M seed round to tackle the shortage of high-quality robot training data. The San Francisco startup (founded Oct 2024, ~60 employees) works with 20 customers, and CEO Philipp Wu calls the physical-data “chicken-and-egg” problem; it plans pipelines spanning teleoperation on deployed robots, broader teleoperated data, and “egocentric” annotation.
In June 2026, DeepL acquired Mixhalo—an SF real-time audio startup—to expand into live events translation and open its first Bay Area office. Mixhalo, founded in 2016 by CEO Vik Singh and others, raised more than $39M and already used DeepL as its primary translation provider.
Pinterest announced in June 2026 the launch of “Ask Pinterest,” a standalone experimental app that lets users seek shopping recommendations and inspiration through a conversational, chatbot-like…
Google started rolling out Wear OS 7 in June 2026 for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4, adding Live Updates that sync real-time sports scores or meal delivery status to phone and watch and up to 10% more battery than Wear OS 6. Gemini-powered features like Create My Widget and multi-step automation arrive later this year, plus a media output switcher and Personal Intelligence.
Mobileye, the Intel subsidiary best known for supplying autonomous vehicle technology to automakers, announced Tuesday it will launch its own robotaxi service in a U.S. city in 2027 — a move that…
The US government moved in mid-June 2026 to restrict two of Anthropic’s newest AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — citing national security concerns. The Trump administration issued an…
Google released Android 17 and Wear OS 7 on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, rolling out the updates first to its Pixel devices alongside a Pixel Drop that brings support for several new AI models and…
AI startup Probably raised $9 million in seed funding in 2026 to develop a system designed to eliminate hallucinations and factual errors from AI-generated outputs, with backing from Andreessen…
Threads announced on June 16, 2026 that it has reached 500 million monthly active users, adding 100 million users in the 10 months since reporting 400 million in August 2025. Alongside the milestone,…
Days after its IPO, SpaceX confirmed plans to buy AI coding platform Cursor for $60B, filing with the SEC that the deal should close in Q3 2026. Earlier, it had set either the $60B price or a $10B breakup fee, citing Musk’s frustration that xAI coding lags Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.
Respond.io, a Kuala Lumpur-based customer conversation management platform, announced in June 2026 that it has raised a $62.5 million Series B round led by Camber Partners, with participation from…
High-level talks between Anthropic and Trump administration officials concluded Monday without resolution, leaving export controls on the company’s Claude Fable 5 AI model in place. The two sides…
