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Three high school students won Northeastern University London's AI Futures Challenge by developing an interactive onboarding tool that addresses employee fears about AI surveillance in the workplace. Ryan Clabot, Matteo …
Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $3 billion valuation, with venture firm 8VC expected to lead the round. The news comes one month after Generalist raised $400 million at a $2 b…
Obra launched Obra Hire on July 29th, a self-serve candidate sourcing platform that lets recruiters search over 800 million profiles to bypass application queues inflated by generative AI. Co-founder Allen Liao said AI t…
Runlayer, a New York AI-security startup backed by Khosla Ventures, sued Rippling on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, alleging trade-secret theft, unfair competition, and breach of contract after Rippling spent nearly…
ChipAgents, the AI semiconductor design startup founded by University of California, Santa Barbara professor William Wang, has raised $60 million in new financing, Reuters reported on July 29th, following a $50 million S…
Groundcover has raised $100 million in Series C funding led by One Peak, with Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing investors participating, to challenge Datadog's dominance in observability for cloud and AI work…
Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan argued that seasoned founders are aging like fine wine, sharing data showing the average age of unicorn founders reached 40 in 2020. The chart from Stanford professor Ilya Strebul…
Together AI announced an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures, with Nvidia, Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, and Salesforce Ventures participating, valuing the company at $8.3 billion a…
Tokenless (YC S26) launched a drop-in API router that automatically selects the most cost-effective AI model for each request, claiming to cut inference costs by up to 57% while maintaining quality. The startup, founded …
Kevin Jiang, a former Perplexity employee who worked on the Comet browser, launched Polar, an AI browser for knowledge work, and raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona. Polar operates inside authenticated browse…
Investing veteran Ed Yardeni warns that Washington's efforts to blunt AI competition from China are largely 'toothless,' as adoption of Chinese open-weight models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 outpaces policy. Yardeni said …
Extropic, a startup founded by physicist Guillaume Verdon, published a case for thermodynamic computing on July 29th, arguing that AI scaling will eventually be constrained by electricity and cooling demands of conventio…
Alphabet's comprehensive control over the AI pipeline, from custom chips to cloud infrastructure and Gemini models, positions it to capitalize further on the AI boom, according to a Motley Fool analysis. The company repo…
Martha Stewart has joined the co-founding team of Hint, an AI-powered home management app launching today that helps homeowners with maintenance schedules, energy management, soil and air quality insights, and document s…
Cohere and Superwhisper announced a partnership on Wednesday to integrate Cohere's Transcribe model into Superwhisper's voice-to-text dictation app, creating an all-Canadian platform that runs locally on user devices. Su…
Eliyan, led by founder Ramin Farjadrad, launched NuLink-XD on July 24, 2026, a 224G PAM4 SerDes architecture for AI scale-up interconnects, following a $50 million strategic investment round disclosed on January 28 from …
The AI coding market is shifting from model competition to the 'harness' layer, the software that routes coding tasks to models, as enterprises push back on price hikes from tools like Cursor. Cursor, which SpaceX agreed…
Chip interconnect startup Eliyan raised $145 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, the company announced Wednesday, to solve data transfer bottlenecks that leave AI processors idle. The round was led by …
Teen founder Giulio Greco has raised $3.2 million at a $40 million valuation for his AI game development startup ForgeGUI, which crossed 300,000 users since launching in March. The seed round was led by Verdict Capital w…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a seed round and reports $21m in annual recurring revenue from more than 8 million users. The company gives away its best models and charges for latency and up…