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AI isn’t close to curing cancer. Vivodyne says it knows what it will take; plus, TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers
20 augustus 2026 · 11 min
A handful of AI-designed drugs have proceeded into human trials — one as far as Phase III, widespread human testing — but the reality is that the roadblocks aren’t necessarily ones that AI can solve today. Lees meer
Also, TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
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DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs; plus, Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
19 augustus 2026 · 7 min
Since portfolio companies often pivot and expand into competing markets, investors view occasional conflicts of interest as unavoidable for large VC firms. Lees meer
Also, Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
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Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic; plus, Wispr looks beyond dictation
18 augustus 2026 · 7 min
Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings. Lees meer
Also, Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.
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SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition; plus, Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
17 augustus 2026 · 3 min
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX. Lees meer
Also, OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
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How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
14 augustus 2026 · 7 min
Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.
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Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people and the grid will actually want; plus, AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x
13 augustus 2026 · 9 min
Reservoir has built an ultra-efficient water heater that can predict hot water demand, store energy, and detect plumbing leaks throughout a home. Lees meer
Also, Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
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Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym; plus, Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device
12 augustus 2026 · 10 min
An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class's waitlist. And the tech industry took notice. Lees meer
Also, fusion power startups are turning to Kyoto Fusioneering to supply components for future power plants. The Japan-based startup just received a grant to build a part of the fuel system.
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Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
11 augustus 2026 · 6 min
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips. Lees meer
Plus, embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry.
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This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs
10 augustus 2026 · 8 min
More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.
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Naïve automates the grunt work of setting up and running a company, plus, Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B, and Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform
7 augustus 2026 · 12 min
-Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naive claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business. Lees meer
-Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation
-Athens-based Omilia, which has been working on automating voice calls and customer support since 2002, throwing AI at every process can be wasteful.
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Can WindBorne make AI weather prediction lucrative? Plus, Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
6 augustus 2026 · 8 min
-WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts. Lees meer
-Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
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Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits; also, is the future of data centers portable?
5 augustus 2026 · 8 min
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed. Lees meer
Also, on Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
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June thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem; plus, Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries
4 augustus 2026 · 8 min
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler. Lees meer
Also, Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.
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When will fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems go public?; plus, Okta buys AI security startup Permiso
3 augustus 2026 · 9 min
There are fresh signs that fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems will list in the next two to three years. Lees meer
Also, the Okta/Permiso deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
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Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom; plus Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B
31 juli 2026 · 8 min
Dili's Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan. Lees meer
Also, Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1 billion as the startup moves toward its first commercial fusion power plant.
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As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
30 juli 2026 · 7 min
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.
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MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea; plus, Ozlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy
29 juli 2026 · 9 min
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself. Lees meer
Also, Ozlo unveiled Sleepbuds 2, an updated version of its original product that tackles key areas of improvement, including battery life, connectivity, and sound quality.
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Antares raises $470M to build nuclear reactors for the US military; plus, Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors
28 juli 2026 · 7 min
Antares has raised $470 million to build small modular reactors — 100 kW to 1 MW — for U.S. Air Force bases. Lees meer
Also, fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.
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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics; plus, Imagi raises $4.5M to help teach students how to vibe code
24 juli 2026 · 9 min
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says. Lees meer
Also, Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Wil.i.am.
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Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation; plus, Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
23 juli 2026 · 7 min
Colossal Biosciences is in talks to raise new funding at a $20 billion to $30 billion valuation, Axios reported. Lees meer
Also, Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.
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Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants; Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors
22 juli 2026 · 10 min
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites. Lees meer
Also, maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.
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Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation; plus, Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
21 juli 2026 · 9 min
The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices. Lees meer
Also, Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
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Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant, plus, AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status
20 juli 2026 · 8 min
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry. Lees meer
Also, travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.
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Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’; plus, Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica
17 juli 2026 · 12 min
While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence." Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word. Lees meer
Also, Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.
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Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls; plus, the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
16 juli 2026 · 11 min
Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies Lees meer
Also, Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
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Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation; plus, Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids
15 juli 2026 · 7 min
The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors. Lees meer
Also, kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone.
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Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ an AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise, plus, Oratomic to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits
13 juli 2026 · 8 min
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend, Sophia Kianni, is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation. Lees meer
Also, Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
Plus, the new startup raised $300 million co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round; plus, popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M
10 juli 2026 · 11 min
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion. Lees meer
Plus, Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.
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Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine; plus, Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation
9 juli 2026 · 6 min
Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door. Lees meer
Also, Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York Times reported.
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Bidbus pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car; Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
8 juli 2026 · 12 min
Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage mobility fund Ibex Investors. Lees meer
Also, Savi just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.
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Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups; plus, Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation
7 juli 2026 · 10 min
Station F, the Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel in 2017, is gearing up for a new edition of its selective acceleration F/ai program that will cement its role as a stepping stone for AI startups. Lees meer
Also, Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150M from Meituan and Tencent at a $1B valuation.
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Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage; plus, Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups
6 juli 2026 · 6 min
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves. Lees meer
Also, Selby's VC firm Copper Sky Capital is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.
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Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip; plus, Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
2 juli 2026 · 8 min
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip. Lees meer
Also, Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.
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Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business
1 juli 2026 · 5 min
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
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Corgi says it didn’t steal an open source product; plus, Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
30 juni 2026 · 10 min
Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding. Lees meer
Also, Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.
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Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; Aseon Labs wants to fix that; plus, General Intuition bets that video games can train AI agents for the real world
26 juni 2026 · 16 min
Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others. Lees meer
Also, General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.
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Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950; also, Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII
25 juni 2026 · 6 min
The Jeff Bezos-backed startup finally revealed more pricing details for its debut EV, including a $29,950 starting price for the SUV variant, and boosted the base range to 205 miles. Lees meer
Plus, new details have emerged about Valor's latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital.
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Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates
24 juni 2026 · 6 min
Fika Jobs announced on Tuesday a $4 million pre-seed round, which will be used to continue developing the platform, grow the team, and prepare for a wider launch later this year.
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Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
23 juni 2026 · 4 min
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States.
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He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
22 juni 2026 · 5 min
French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.
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World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names; plus, General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation
19 juni 2026 · 5 min
World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch. Lees meer
Also, General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.
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SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
18 juni 2026 · 5 min
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
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Startup Foundation Alloy developed a new alloying technique; plus, Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
17 juni 2026 · 8 min
Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys. Lees meer
Also, the company Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.
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Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world; plus, Theker building a factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
15 juni 2026 · 7 min
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion. Lees meer
Also, unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
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Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source; Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their businessplus,
12 juni 2026 · 12 min
SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy. Lees meer
Also, the funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
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Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in; plus, Zest launches a restaurant discovery app
11 juni 2026 · 11 min
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in, with model makers. Lees meer
Also, backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.
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Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station; plus, so long FAANG and hello to MANGOS
10 juni 2026 · 7 min
The startup is one of many entering the RV space, but it's banking on a hybrid power system that can go far beyond campsites. Lees meer
Also, with SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of corporate overlords — and a new acronym to match. Say goodbye to FAANG and hello to MANGOS.
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Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
8 juni 2026 · 5 min
Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.
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Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
5 juni 2026 · 9 min
The California startup released the fourth-generation of its home assistance robot, Stretch.
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Brynn Putnam's Board raised $20M; plus, ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves
4 juni 2026 · 7 min
Board, the startup building what it calls "together tech" designed to bring people into the same room, has closed a Series A led by Union Square Ventures. Lees meer
Also, a new AI compliance service sits between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a compliance problem.
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