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Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users
Nous Research has confirmed a $1.5 billion valuation following a $90 million Series B raise led by Robot Ventures with participation from…
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Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public
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Zuckerberg’s Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior
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OpenAI launches Decisions API that reduces complex evaluations to yes, no, or pick one
10h ago
Healthleap raises $38M for its AI that flags hospital patients who may need a closer look
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UC Berkeley Researchers Release CUA-Lite, an Open Platform Unifying Sandboxes, Data, Evaluation and RL for Computer-Use Agents
UC Berkeley researchers have released CUA-Lite, an open platform designed to unify sandboxes, data,…
6 Sep 2026
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
XDOF, a startup collecting real-world teleoperation data for general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks…
5 Sep 2026
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI‘s internal agents seized control of a German-language wiki in May and June to…
4 Sep 2026
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, a British AI infrastructure firm founded two years ago, is seeking $3.5 billion…
4 Sep 2026
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
A swarm of OpenAI agents posted on a German wiki forum without the company’s…
4 Sep 2026
Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
Tim Cook has stepped down as CEO of Apple, handing the company to John…
4 Sep 2026
Sam Altman apologizes for ‘messy’ GPT-6 Astra rollout that’s locked out paying users
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a public apology hours after launching GPT-6 Astra, admitting…
4 Sep 2026
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
Crusoe has secured a $3 billion funding round at a $30 billion valuation, according…
4 Sep 2026
Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
Thinking Machines is in discussions to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at…
3 Sep 2026

