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Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut

Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash , a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upg…

GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor

Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known internationally for its growing lineup of powerful, largely open source GLM series of language models, today released GLM-5.3 wit…

General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI

River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.

India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand

Yulu aims to have a fleet of 200,000 bikes in the next two years and faster electric two-wheelers, aiming at new logistics use cases.

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.

How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures

Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal ca…

Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M

This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.

AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation

Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup

The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup.

Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerf…

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

Inforcer raises $50M to help prepare smaller businesses for a new world of AI and security risks

London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.

Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers

Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.

Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human

The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.

Fresh off its Wiz payout, Index Ventures raises $2B across three funds

The new funding brings Index's total available investing capital to $3.5 billion.

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.

AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

Lightspeed is building its edge on followers, not just funds

Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with…

Moove raises $250M to become the backbone of the robotaxi industry

Moove is scaling up the autonomous vehicle fleet management side of its business and plans to someday own, not just manage, Waymo robotaxis.

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs

More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.

Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.

Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria

The AI opportunity is huge, but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline," Kushner warns in his first-eve…

Meta’s new open-source AI runs locally without the cloud - The Daily Star

Meta’s new open-source AI runs locally without the cloud The Daily Star

7 Best Self-Hosted Inference Servers for Open-Source Models, Compared (2026) - HackerNoon

7 Best Self-Hosted Inference Servers for Open-Source Models, Compared (2026) HackerNoon

India@80: 8 themes defining its AI journey - Moneycontrol.com

India@80: 8 themes defining its AI journey Moneycontrol.com

Why Zerodha's Nithin Kamath is asking founders to stop leading with AI - The Economic Times

China's latest open-weight model rivals U.S. models at hacking - Axios

China's latest open-weight model rivals U.S. models at hacking Axios

AI Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In August - Inc42

AI Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In August Inc42

Alibaba’s AI Models Surpass 3 Billion Downloads, Overtaking Meta and Google - entARABI

Alibaba’s AI Models Surpass 3 Billion Downloads, Overtaking Meta and Google entARABI

Josh Kushner’s Thrive Fund grows sevenfold to $3.7 billion on AI bets - The Economic Times

For the people who got reviews back from neurips, cvpr, eccv, etc and also tested their paper through an agentic reviewer like the stanford one, how different were the reviews? [D]

Hello, I was curious about the differences you can get from the human reviewers and the llms. Any insight is welcome, thank you! submitted by /u/obliviousphoeni…

What you Need to Know AboutClaude's Maker, Anthropic IPO - TradingKey

What you Need to Know AboutClaude's Maker, Anthropic IPO TradingKey

Alphabet (GOOGL) Faces Fresh AI Doubts After Steve Eisman Cuts Exposure - simplywall.st

How much does adding an honest limitations section hurt the paper? [D]

Hi, How much does adding an honest limitations section hurt the paper (apart from making it better)? Does it bias the reviewers? Will they want you to fix the t…

JKI Releases Latest Version of its VI Package Manager for LabVIEW, VIPM 2026 Q3 - Embedded Computing Design

JKI Releases Latest Version of its VI Package Manager for LabVIEW, VIPM 2026 Q3 Embedded Computing Design

A Better Prompt Is Not a Business: Against the Thin Wrapper Economy | by Adnan Masood, PhD. | Aug, 2026 - Medium

A Better Prompt Is Not a Business: Against the Thin Wrapper Economy | by Adnan Masood, PhD. | Aug, 2026 Medium

I compiled Doom's renderer into a 21B-parameter transformer -- no training anywhere [P]

This is the project my last two posts were building towards (this is the last of this silliness). I ported the Doom rendering algorithm to run inside a transfor…

Pokee-Isaac 28B: 10M-Token Context on a Single GPU - Pasquale Pillitteri

Pokee-Isaac 28B: 10M-Token Context on a Single GPU Pasquale Pillitteri

Social Media Startup Funding Just Topped Last Year's Total - Briefs Finance

Social Media Startup Funding Just Topped Last Year's Total Briefs Finance