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Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation
Wispr, a startup known for its AI dictation tool, raised $280 million in Series B funding, led by Menlo…
Semiconductor Giants Are Busy Backing Startups This Year
Anyone with a stock portfolio has invariably noticed that semiconductor companies are on a tear this year.…
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
In Brief Posted: 1:57 PM PDT · August 16, 2026 Image Credits:SOPA Images/Contributor / Getty Images Anthony…
Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word essay this week…
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently pushed back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly…
🔮 The curious economics of a $6 AI agent #597
Good morning from London. We are looking for an outstanding economist to join us as an AI Economy Research…
Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
In Brief Posted: 2:29 PM PDT · August 15, 2026 Image Credits:Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto / Getty Images Anthony Ha…
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work
Anthropic published a blog post Friday seeking to answer some basic questions about how it will watermark the…
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · August 15, 2026 Image Credits:Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch Anthony Ha SpaceX…
How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked
Just like any other online service, hackers can target and break into your accounts on popular AI platforms…
🔮 The market misread Google’s AI exodus
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are leaving Google after more than a quarter-century, as you know. Outside the…
Turkey asks the AI: are you a TERRORIST??
On 26 June, Turkey’s Ministry of Justice announced the “CBS Organization Prediction Project”: an…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Data, Neolab, AI Infrastructure, Defense And AI Coding Lead
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus…
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
In Brief Posted: 9:13 AM PDT · August 14, 2026 Image Credits:Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto / Getty Images Ivan…
Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own…
Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
The race for faster AI inference is on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chips a warm welcome…
Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct
After years of snapping up wind and solar developments, hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft…
40 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In July, The Highest Count In 4 Years
A total of 40 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in July, the highest monthly total in more than…
Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Across the AI industry, users are becoming more conscious of just how expensive their deployments can be…
Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’
The Twitch streaming platform is owned by Amazon. They use your Twitch streams for training AI. Twitch…
Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.
There’s a funny kind of game that the latest of late-stage startups must play when raising money. They…
OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed
In Brief Posted: 12:22 PM PDT · August 13, 2026 Image Credits:Olivier Morin/AFP / Getty Images Lucas Ropek…
IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push
IBM on Thursday announced its partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more…
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy…