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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading the seed round for Runta, a startup rebuilding the execution layer for AI agents to provide efficient, secure, and stateful compute that can run locally or in the cloud. Runta, found…
Microagi GmbH, a Munich-based startup founded by former Formula One engineers from Red Bull Racing and Mercedes-AMG Petronas, has raised $55 million in seed funding led by Hummingbird to improve industrial robotics using…
Ukraine's ousted defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov said his reform efforts were blocked by top general Oleksandr Syrskyi, whom he recommended be removed. Fedorov told reporters that Syrskyi was "not willing to discuss pr…
InstaLILY closed a $60 million Series B led by Energize Capital to deploy AI agents that handle sales and operations for construction, industrial distribution, logistics and healthcare firms. The company's AI agent Lily,…
Andrew Dai, a former Google DeepMind researcher, raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation for his visual AI startup Elorian before launching a product. Dai prioritized strategic investors like Nvidia a…
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, its most capable flagship model to date, with strong performance in coding, games/3D, and knowledge tasks. The model supports up to 1M context window and reasoning effort settings, avail…
Towards AI launched Towards AI Deployment, an enterprise division staffed by AI engineers who began as community members and students. Co-founders Louis-François Bouchard and Denis P. detailed the transition from teachin…
Runta, an AI infrastructure startup, raised $20 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz at a post-money valuation of over $100 million, announced July 16, 2026. The company builds guardrails for AI agents, inc…
Hadrius, a New York compliance software company, raised $27 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator and others, aiming to automate financial-services compliance using…
OpenAI's plan to launch a humanlike rechargeable smart speaker in 2026 enters a declining market, with IDC data showing smart speaker shipments fell 16.3% in 2023, 11.8% in 2024, and an estimated 9.6% in 2025 before flat…
AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that his company avoids terms like 'AGI' and 'superintelligence' because they lack useful definitions. The pre-product world-model startup is courting ro…
Oak, an Israeli startup, raised $60 million in seed funding to build an AI-native identity operating system that governs every identity in a firm, including humans, machines, and AI agents. The round was co-led by Accel,…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI's upcoming Kimi K3 model, with 2-3 trillion parameters, is expected to match or surpass Anthropic's Opus 4.8, according to the Financial Times. The open-weight model, the largest from China, wi…
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman launched Ode with Anthropic, a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm that focuses on implementing AI models inside large companies rather than building new models. CEO Chr…
Estratos, a new shared memory system for AI assistants, launched today at estratos.ai, enabling teams to stack project knowledge layers that AI agents like Cowork and Codex can access. The product features revision contr…
In about 30 days, three B2B companies—Salesforce buying Fin for $3.6B, Autodesk buying MaintainX for $3.6B, and Schneider Electric buying Cognite for $3.1B—each paid a giant premium to acquire proprietary data for AI in …
GPT-5.6 outperforms Fable 5 and Grok 4.5 in coding tests conducted by a hobbyist developer, with top-notch intelligence and no censorship issues. Fable 5 disappoints due to painful usage limits and inconsistent censorshi…
Pi, a coding agent built by Mario Zechner and acquired by Earendil Inc., deliberately omits features like MCP support, sub-agents, and plan mode that competitors emphasize, instead offering only four built-in tools: read…
Sierra announced Horizon, a platform that enables AI agents to pursue long-horizon goals such as originating loans or scheduling healthcare referrals over days or weeks. The platform, built on Sierra's Agent OS, uses a c…
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, on July 15 released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model that processes text, images, audio, a…