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Sarvam AI's new coding agent, Sarvam Code, is a rebadged version of OpenAI's open-source Codex CLI, according to a technical teardown published on ojasviyadav.com. The teardown found identical command surfaces, sandbox m…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is spending tens of billions of dollars to make Meta a leading frontier AI lab, including a $14 billion stake in Scale AI and plans for $130 billion to $145 billion in capital expenditures in 202…
Hugging Face unveiled the $399 Microduck waddling robot on August 27, 2026, expanding its consumer hardware lineup after acquiring Pollen Robotics in April 2025 and launching the $299 Reachy Mini in July 2025, which sold…
Conveo.ai, a Y Combinator-backed AI research platform founded in 2024, is hiring a Senior Product Engineer in New York City, with the company growing from about 20 to 120 employees this year. The role involves leading fr…
QuickApproveAI, a startup founded by Logan and Uzma, is developing an AI-powered tool that automatically generates project status updates from existing data sources like Jira and document uploads, aiming to reduce organi…
Nvidia agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in August 2026, following a $20 billion acquisition of chipmaker Groq and enterprise analytics platform Kumo, consolidating control over AI …
Architect Labs, a startup founded last year, says it designed and verified a chip called Redwood in two weeks using AI, a process that typically takes a year or more and costs hundreds of millions of dollars. The company…
Hong Kong-based startup Votee AI is building Cantonese-language AI models to counter the dominance of English and Mandarin in the AI industry, retraining open-weight models from Meta and Alibaba on Cantonese data for ban…
Barret Zoph, former OpenAI VP of Research and co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, is joining Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research, focusing on reinforcement learning and post-training. Zoph announced the move o…
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion, the same platform that OpenAI's rogue agents breached in July, according to a postmortem and independent audit. The incident involved over 1,000 agents exchangin…
AI startup Instinct, operating as Spear Street Technology, has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, with the product still in private beta. The company's moat is not its AI model but its user authorizations, …
KT is participating in TechSauce Global Summit 2026 in Bangkok with 12 partner startups, running Tuesday to Thursday at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center. The summit features sessions on AI transformation, fin…
Anthropic reportedly plans to spend about $45 billion renting AI cloud computing capacity from Nscale for a West Virginia data-center campus, with infrastructure expected to use NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips. The deal signals …
Chinese startup Galbot, founded in May 2023, has raised RMB 2.5 billion ($370 million) in a 2026 funding round, bringing its total funding to over RMB 4.9 billion and its valuation to over RMB 22 billion ($3.27 billion),…
Galbot, a Chinese embodied AI robotics company, has raised RMB 2.5 billion ($370 million) in a 2026 financing round, bringing its total funding to over RMB 4.8 billion and its valuation to more than RMB 22 billion ($3.27…
Instinct, a San Francisco-based AI agent startup founded by former Sierra researcher Noah Shinn, has raised at least $350 million in multiple rounds over the past few months, with its valuation soaring from $100 million …
Latitude opened its AI roleplaying platform Voyage to the public on Wednesday, removing the waitlist for the open beta available on iOS, Android, and the web. The platform separates world state management from AI narrati…
Legato emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding for its AI-powered hearing glasses, the Legato Frames, which target mild to moderate hearing loss and are set to launch in the U.S. later this fall through select e…
Codebreaker Labs, a Boulder startup co-founded by Ryan Gill, filed its first SEC Form D on August 26, signaling a fundraising effort for its plan to manufacture experimental data for genomics AI, though the filing does n…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24-year-old founder of the $45 billion hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his fund plunge 67% through July 30, forcing him to sell most of its public-stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel…