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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
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Healthleap raises $38M for its AI that flags hospital patients who may need a closer look
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OpenAI starts charging some customers only when its AI actually works
OpenAI is now billing select enterprise clients only after its artificial intelligence successfully completes…
31 Aug 2026
OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.0: Guided Model Setup, 575 ms Control UI Startup, and One Trust Boundary Per Gateway
The OpenClaw team has released version 2.0, ending a seven-week silence after 106 releases…
31 Aug 2026
“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
Vijay Pande, a Stanford chemistry professor known for the Folding@home distributed-computing project, left a16z…
29 Aug 2026
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
Nvidia’s market cap growth slowed after a decade of expansion, with shares showing a…
29 Aug 2026
OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition, citing Musk’s history of breaking contracts
OpenAI is ending its contract with the AI coding tool Cursor following SpaceX’s acquisition…
29 Aug 2026
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has secured $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to purchase Nvidia chips…
28 Aug 2026
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
Nvidia is expected to announce a $13 billion purchase of Hugging Face later this…
28 Aug 2026
Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The event…
27 Aug 2026
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google
Barret Zoph has joined Google as vice president of research after leaving OpenAI in…
27 Aug 2026

