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Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
In Brief Posted: 7:19 AM PDT · August 26, 2026 Image Credits:CFOTO/Future Publishing / Getty Images Rebecca…
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Physical AI is one of the hottest sectors in venture investing, with companies raising billions to apply the…
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
Shapor Naghibzadeh learned the value of a good story in 2009 as a Google SysOps engineer. When hackers backed…
Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Making AI agents work in practice is a lot harder than many companies expected — but there’s help on the…
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, but only around 20% of those with…
Sector Snapshot: Legal Tech Funding Down Slightly From All-Time High
If AI legal tech funding was a baseball game, this might be roughly the fifth inning. One already has a sense…
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startup Runable is…
India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent…
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC,…
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
OpenAI has lost yet another executive, and the timing of this one stands out in particular given this…
Everybody hates the AI, more and more
The AI industry has long flooded the zone with propaganda for the chatbot. Signing up YouTube influencers and…
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series…
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
A change to Claude’s memory system will eliminate one of the most annoying things about using agents —…
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica in a bid to build out its own design…
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
At the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, OpenAI shared a more detailed look at Jalapeño, including the first…
Last Week in AI #342 - Last 3 Months in AI
Hi there, it’s Andrey, the guy running this substack. It’s taken far too long, but I am finally going to…
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents
Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can’t spare the time or attention required to scan…
‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux
Users of OpenAI’s software engineering tool Codex might know Thibault Sottiaux as the guy who resets their…
Inside The Private-Market Divide: EquityZen’s Phil Haslett On AI, SaaS And Secondaries
As startups stay private longer, the market for buying and selling shares in venture-backed companies before…
Why Bootstrapped Businesses Are More Relevant Than Ever
By Richard de Silva In Silicon Valley, if a founder wants to build the next unicorn, there’s a formula:…
Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
In Brief Posted: 5:23 PM PDT · August 24, 2026 Image Credits:Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg / Getty Images Lucas…
Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
In Brief Posted: 2:24 PM PDT · August 24, 2026 Image Credits:Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Sean O'Kane Trump…
Twitch AI class action: inept and written with ChatGPT
The gaming world was greatly cheered on Friday by the news of Twitch getting dragged into court over their…
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The AI boom has made it possible for a significantly wider range of people to dip into development, create…