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OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger revealed at TED2026 that his AI agent, unleashed on the internet, sparked one of the world's fastest-growing open-source projects, arguing that agents represent a fundamental shift beyo…
Raft 1.0, a multi-agent collaboration platform built around team mode, launched by Botiverse founder Richard (RC), who previously built Kimi CLI at Moonshot AI. The platform provides a shared workspace of channels, threa…
Thousands of employees at Anthropic and OpenAI are poised to become multimillionaires as the AI startups prepare for IPOs, with one midlevel Anthropic staffer's equity ballooning from $1.3 million to $72 million in two y…
Airbus signed a multi-year partnership with Scaleway, the cloud computing arm of French telecom group Iliad, to build sovereign cloud infrastructure for defense and industrial workloads, migrating roughly 70 critical app…
Glad-AI-Tor, a crowd-sourced ranking platform, has launched with 75 AI tools judged by real user verdicts across six arenas: voice, LLMs, image, video, coding, and music. The platform claims no tool can buy a spot in the…
Tyred, a startup developing an AI platform that predicts bicycle breakdowns before they occur, has raised £2.5 million in funding. The company aims to help cyclists avoid unexpected mechanical failures by using predictiv…
A new database from Startups.RIP tracking 105 Y Combinator founders shows that OpenAI and Anthropic are the top destinations for founders whose startups were acquired or shut down, with Sam Altman still running OpenAI as…
Former banker Satyajit Das warns that current stock market overvaluation, driven by AI and space ventures like SpaceX, mirrors the dot.com bubble, which caused $5-6 trillion in losses and an 80% Nasdaq decline from March…
Prolo, a London-based AI procurement platform for small and medium-sized construction firms, has raised £4.2 million in seed funding led by Triple Point Ventures with participation from a16z Scout Fund, Anamcara Capital,…
Applied Computing, an Imperial College spinout using physics-based AI to optimize refinery operations, raised $20 million from KBR and Databricks. The London startup's technology is already deployed at one of the world's…
XAI's Grok 4.5, launched on July 8, has climbed to the number two spot on the FrontierSWE leaderboard with a score of 4.09, beating Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 (4.82) and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 (5.21). The model, priced at $2 …
TSMC reported a 77% year-over-year net profit surge to NT$505.74 billion ($16 billion) in its latest quarter, driven by insatiable AI chip demand, marking its eighth consecutive quarter of profit growth. The company's re…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weights multimodal foundation model family with 975B total parameters and 41B active, under the Apache 2.0 license. The model supports up to 1M token context and was pretra…
Microagi, a Munich-based robotics startup founded by former Red Bull Racing engineer Bercan Kilic, raised $55 million in the largest seed round for a German startup, led by Hummingbird with participation from Northzone, …
Anthropic is quietly scheduling investor meetings for a potential October IPO, targeting a $965B valuation, while facing diplomatic backlash in Europe after sending a junior employee to deliver AI-generated testimony to …
LG Electronics convened about 300 executives to review its second-half strategy, focusing on robotics, AI data center cooling, smart factories and AI-powered homes as future growth engines. CEO Lyu Jae-cheol said the fou…
Ode, an AI consulting firm with a direct partnership with Anthropic, announced its mission to help companies deploy frontier AI models into production systems that deliver measurable business results. The company, backed…
Meticulous, a London-based startup founded by former Dropbox and Palantir employees, raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Chemistry with participation from Menlo Ventures to address the challenge of AI-generated…
Anthropic has filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, signaling progress toward a potential initial public offering by the end of 2026, according to prediction-market data from Polymarket that shows a 78% probability of t…
RoboStrategy's tokenized shares on Solana outtraded the underlying Nasdaq-listed stock on a Sunday, with the fund's CEO Andrew Kang calling it the 'MicroStrategy of robotics.' The closed-end fund, which invests in privat…