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Variance is launching a 30-day deep-tech residency in Bengaluru from 18 September to 18 October 2026 for 14 founders, covering housing, meals, workspace, a stipend, and AI and cloud credits from Anthropic, AWS, Azure, an…
TypeSafe AI's System One model Jev has been used by developers to build browser agents, trading bots, and content-analysis pipelines at reported costs as low as $0.0002 per decision and $0.0039 per task. Faadil Shaik rep…
Campfire is hiring a Data Engineer in San Francisco at $150,000–$220,000 per year, a range the job board reports sits 20% below the $231,000 median for AI-engineering roles in the United States. The on-site role requires…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is reversing his 2024 AgentForce commitment by integrating Anthropic and OpenAI chatbots as the preferred user interface for Salesforce customers, a shift Stratechery's Andrew Sharp called a "…
MemeToro published 1,373 lines of Solidity code across 17 files under an MIT license, including its first FairLaunchEscrow.sol contract, for its planned $BNB Chain AI memecoin launchpad. The project has raised more than …
TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth on September 15 with a $40 million seed round led by DCVC for Jev, a model that returns bounded decisions instead of chat text. In an Ably-built Pong demo, Jev made 47 decisions in 12 sec…
Meta Platforms' standalone AI agent app Muse reached the No. 1 spot among free applications on the US App Store by September 18, ten days after its September 8 launch, gathering over 83,000 downloads in its first few day…
AIUC announced a $40M Series A to develop AIUC-1, a standard for agent security, safety, and reliability, working with companies including Cursor, Harvey, Lovable, and ElevenLabs to determine liability when autonomous sy…
China's Spirit AI is developing embodied-AI robot software trained on human video and wearable-sensor data, reporting more than 200,000 hours of interaction data collected and a target of over 1 million hours by the end …
Nvidia Director of Developer Tech Nader Khalil and Global Head of VC Partnerships Sydney Sykes will lead a session titled "The Open vs. Closed AI Debate Is Just Getting Started" on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrup…
Notch, an AI startup that makes video ads, cut its median agent harness cost from $4.44 to $0.50 per video-producing session — nearly 90% — by switching its harness from a Sonnet-powered model to GPT-5.6 Luna after a two…
Seattle-based startup ModernVivo is using AI to help scientists design preclinical drug-discovery studies, co-founder Ian Levine told GeekWire, with customers reporting that work which used to take about a month now take…
Atlas Fields released Jev, a new frontier AI model trained with a method called RLCD, which solved an RF engineering task in 5 decisions at roughly 230 ms per decision while Astra, fable, and Opus failed to solve it with…
A 12-year-old developer who builds apps on a $150 Android phone announced the launch of HYNAWEB, a technology holding company formed with Akhouri Anmol Kumar, founder and CEO of Akhouri Systems. The partnership, struck w…
Vietnam's National Technology Innovation Fund (NATIF) opened applications on Sept. 16 for its 2026 AI technology innovation program, offering businesses and organizations up to VND3 billion, or about $114,000, per projec…
Mistral and other European AI companies accused US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for advanced developers to slow the pace of AI model capability …
Salesforce unveiled Koa, an enterprise AI product built on Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Super architecture and post-trained on 27 years of synthetic CRM data, at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on September 15, 2026, w…
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) introduced a sandbox phase in its project lifecycle, announced at its AGNTCon Europe event in Amsterdam, to admit open source agentic AI projects that lack significant adoption, with a 12…
SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, is informally discussing buying customer and operational data from defunct and struggling startups to train its Grok AI models, according to a Bloomberg report. The approach mirrors Google's $10…
Anthropic has established physical biology wet labs and hired bench scientists to let its Claude models conduct real-world drug discovery experiments, targeting rare and neglected diseases. The initiative sits under Clau…