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VFundingLive · 57m ago

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…

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VFundingLive · 57m ago

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…

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TSFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TSFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TSFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TSFundingLive · 57m ago

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…

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TSFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TSFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TAStartupsLive · 57m ago

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.

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TSFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TAStartupsLive · 57m ago

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…

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TSFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TAStartupsLive · 57m ago

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

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

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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…

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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.

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TFFundingLive · 57m ago

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…

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GNStartupsLive · 57m ago

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

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

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GNOpen SourceLive · 57m ago

India Deploys Homegrown AI at Red Fort, Pledges AI Training for Ten Million Youth - Tech Times

India Deploys Homegrown AI at Red Fort, Pledges AI Training for Ten Million Youth Tech Times

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GNStartupsLive · 57m ago

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

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GNResearchLive · 57m ago

Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3 with long-horizon coding, cybersecurity upgrades - SiliconANGLE

Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3 with long-horizon coding, cybersecurity upgrades siliconangle.com

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GNStartupsLive · 57m ago

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

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GNOpen SourceLive · 57m ago

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

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GNStartupsLive · 57m ago

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

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RRResearchLive · 57m ago

Do you actually finish setting up a new project? [N]

I have a bad habit of getting a new project 90% of the way there and then losing interest. Dependencies work, GPU is detected, model downloads, everything final…

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GNOpen SourceLive · 57m ago

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

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GNStartupsLive · 57m ago

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

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

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RRResearchLive · 57m ago

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…

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GNOpen SourceLive · 57m ago

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

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GNOpen SourceLive · 57m ago

Google’s Glanceboard Transforms Mornings with Personalized E-Ink Displays - Small Business Trends

Google’s Glanceboard Transforms Mornings with Personalized E-Ink Displays Small Business Trends

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RRResearchLive · 57m ago

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…

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GNOpen SourceLive · 57m ago

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

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GNOpen SourceLive · 57m ago

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

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GNStartupsLive · 57m ago

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

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RRResearchLive · 57m ago

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…

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GNInfrastructureLive · 57m ago

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

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GNOpen SourceLive · 57m ago

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

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

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