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Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!
Realbotix makes allegedly realistic life-sized silicone-skin dolls, with a robot mechanism and — of course!…
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
In Brief Posted: 3:46 PM PDT · July 29, 2026 Image Credits:Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Julie Bort…
Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
In June, Meta entered the enterprise AI market with a new AI agent aimed at businesses, to help with customer…
Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers,…
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
In Brief Posted: 2:07 PM PDT · July 29, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Amanda…
The Hugging Face AI break-in explained
Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent,…
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has given frontier models various real-world tasks to…
Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
Martha Stewart is entering the AI software era in the most Martha Stewart way possible: She has joined the…
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
Encore AI, a startup that studies companies’ customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents that…
The Sweet Science: Why The AI Era Belongs To Middleweights
By Brad Bernstein Think of the most famous boxers you know, likely the heavyweights: Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis,…
As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
New York-based AI detection startup Pangram is on a mission to combat the AI slop infestation spreading…
Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Enterprise AI startup Freehand has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to scale its autonomous AI…
Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
In Brief Posted: 5:09 PM PDT · July 28, 2026 Marina Temkin Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to…
Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now
The Singularity is the Rapture in Silicon Valley’s totally-not-religion. The AI improves itself, getting…
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
In Brief Posted: 2:29 PM PDT · July 28, 2026 Image Credits:Malte Mueller / Getty Images Julie Bort…
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models…
Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it may be time to “pace” AI development so the world will be ready for…
Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
The largest electrical grid in the U.S. has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after…
Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
The market for AI-generated voice models is massive. Creative use cases require AI voice models to be more…
Exclusive: Co-Founded By Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M To Track Gut Health From The Toilet
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has…
AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
Seed funding trends tell us a lot about how savvy investors see the future unfolding. And lately, the data…
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Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Weeks before its expected acquisition by SpaceX closes, AI coding startup Cursor is making its biggest push…
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded on Monday afternoon to murmuring in the industry that his…