ACTI LAUNCHES WORLD'S FIRST AGENTIC KEYBOARD, RAISES $5.3 MILLION
AI REPORT WIRE SERVICES | Filed 2:30 PM EST | Source: TechCrunch
Singapore-based Acti has launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android that goes well beyond autocomplete or grammar fixes: it can pull back the right result, link, document, or action directly inside any text field — live sports scores, nearby restaurants, Notion docs, LinkedIn profiles, meeting links, or triggering calendar actions and custom workflows.
"Agentic keyboard for mobile commands and search."
Users describe custom "Skills" in plain language rather than code; early access testers built over 1,000 Skills in under two weeks, some shared publicly to a Skills marketplace. The company closed a $5.3 million seed round led by BITKRAFT Ventures and landed the #1 Product Hunt Day Rank on launch.
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MEETILY, OPEN-SOURCE PRIVACY-FIRST AI MEETING NOTE TAKER, PASSES 280,000 USERS
Open Source Desk | Source: GitHub (Zackriya-Solutions/meetily)
Meetily, a fully open-source, MIT-licensed meeting assistant, transcribes and summarizes meetings entirely on-device using local Whisper/Parakeet models plus Ollama for summarization — no audio or transcript ever leaves the machine. It's now the #1 self-hosted AI meeting note-taker for macOS and Windows, with more than 12,900 GitHub stars and over 280,000 users, and works with Zoom, Teams, Meet, and Webex.
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OPENAI AND BROADCOM UNVEIL "JALAPEÑO," OPENAI'S FIRST CUSTOM AI CHIP
Business Desk | Source: TechCrunch
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on June 24, a custom inference chip built from scratch around OpenAI's own model roadmap and serving systems. Co-developed from initial design to manufacturing tape-out in roughly nine months, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says early testing shows performance-per-watt substantially better than current GPUs, with cost savings of roughly 50% versus typical AI GPUs. Initial deployment is targeted for the end of 2026.
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ANTHROPIC IN TALKS WITH SAMSUNG TO BUILD A CUSTOM AI CHIP
Policy Desk | Source: TechCrunch
Anthropic has opened early talks with Samsung Electronics, evaluating its two-nanometer process and advanced chip-packaging facilities, though the company says it hasn't committed to anything. The move follows OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño unveiling days earlier; Samsung was already one of three chipmakers that invested in Anthropic's $65 billion funding round in May. Anthropic says a diversified hardware stack spanning Google, Amazon, and Nvidia remains central to its strategy regardless of how the Samsung conversation goes.
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