Voice AI startup ElevenLabs secures $500M in Series D funding at $11B valuation, tripling its value in one year with enterprise adoption surging.

Major AI funding wave sees Waabi secure $1B for autonomous trucking, Decagon triple to $4.5B valuation, and PaleBlueDot AI reach unicorn status at $1B+.

Google announced acquisitions and investments in three AI companies: Common Sense Machines for 2D-to-3D conversion, Hume AI for voice emotion recognition, and Sakana AI for Japanese market expansion to strengthen its competitive position.

Silicon Valley is pouring money into the dream of recursive self-improvement, with startup Ricursive Intelligence, founded by ex-Google researchers, reaching a $4 billion valuation to build AI that can improve itself.

Yann LeCun's new venture, AMI Labs, is set to revolutionize AI by focusing on 'world models' that simulate real-world dynamics, a departure from traditional large language models. The Paris-based startup, with a reported $3.5 billion valuation, aims to create more reliable and controllable AI for industries like healthcare and robotics.

Thinking Machines Lab, the $12 billion AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is facing a major setback as three of its co-founders are returning to OpenAI, highlighting the intense talent war in the AI industry.