Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters has declared the ElizaOS token completely dead after a federal class action lawsuit, a collapsed market cap, and a company wind-down. The lawsuit, Pikabea v. Walters, f…
Backflip AI launched a scan-to-CAD tool inside Autodesk Fusion on August 3, 2026, that converts 3D scans and mesh files into editable, parametric CAD models with native feature trees or .STEP exports.…
The Trump White House is keeping its new AI oversight framework secret, with no public release planned, according to three sources familiar with the discussions. The framework, which invites AI develo…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) published an opinion piece arguing that AI models lack an inherent sense of when a task is complete, and that effective 'loop engineering' depends on designing verifiers tha…
Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs, declared the Eliza token 'dead' and said the Eliza Foundation is winding down after a class-action settlement with Burwick Law exhausted its remaining treasury. Th…
Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs and the ElizaOS agent framework, declared the ELIZAOS token dead and told holders to sell, citing litigation costs and a lack of capital to fight a class action. Th…
Black Forest Labs, co-founded by CEO Robin Rombach, opened FLUX 3 Video to general API access on August 4th, enabling developers to generate video and synchronized audio from text, images, keyframes, …
Volta Infra Holdings emerged from stealth on August 4, 2026, announcing a $300 million raise co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter Capital at a $2.4 billion post-money valuation, alongside a $10…
Anthropic has signed a six-year, $10 billion computing deal with Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud startup founded in early 2026, for 133 megawatts of capacity at a hydropower-fed data center in Tydal, No…
Anthropic has agreed to spend $10 billion on computing capacity from AI infrastructure startup Volta Infra and Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer Technologies, according to Bloomberg. The six-year contrac…
Convex, the application backend startup founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers, has closed a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with participation from Etna Labs, Spark Capital,…
Convex Inc., a developer tooling startup founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers, has closed a $57 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Etna Labs,…
Endeavor Optical Networks emerged from stealth on August 4th with $10.75 million in seed funding from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz to build a satellite-based network for routing data-cente…
Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a new AI cloud company founded by former Brookfield Asset Management executives Ricard Boada and Sofia Gumuzio, has raised $300 million in venture funding at a $2.4 billion …
Paradigm, the crypto-native venture firm co-founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, closed its fourth fund at $1.2 billion in July 2026, with a mandate expanded beyond crypto to include AI, robotics, a…
Poet and former Google product marketer Tucker Bryant has placed a San Francisco billboard advertising ChatTJB, a parody LLM-style chat interface powered entirely by Bryant himself, who manually answe…
Andreessen Horowitz partner Justine Moore promoted a fake 1990s-style video generated by Black Forest Labs' Flux 3, calling it 'exceptional at generating historical footage,' highlighting the ease of …
Exa CEO Will Bryk said on August 3rd that Exa's index now serves 80 billion pages and tracks 1.4 trillion URLs, nearly triple the 500 billion URLs reported in May, with expectations to reach "Google-s…
Mariana Minerals, a San Francisco-based mining startup cofounded by CEO Turner Caldwell, has raised $310 million in a Series B round led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to $400 million …
A news site called The Wire by Acutus has published 94 articles since December 2025 using AI bots posing as human journalists, with 97% of the articles fully or partially AI-generated, according to in…