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Dead Startups Are Becoming an AI Training Data Source
A growing market lets founders sell their company's digital leftovers to AI labs. The money rarely reaches employees, and the legal ground is shaky.
Manus Raised $500 Million After China Blocked Its Sale to Meta
The AI agent startup is back as an independent company, freshly funded and building its own technology stack, even as its cautionary tale about cross-border dealmaking lingers.
Iceland's Treble Raises $18 Million to Stress-Test the Voice AI Boom
The acoustic simulation startup, which already benchmarks speech models on Hugging Face, now has $40 million total to push into robotics, smart glasses, and physical AI.
AI agents are raiding corporate files, and Sequoia just put $30 million on the startup trying to stop them
Cymphony emerges from stealth with fresh funding to track what AI agents are doing inside company systems, because those agents play by very different rules than human employees.
AI startups jumped from one story to six in a week. What is that telling us?
Our own tag for AI startups went from a single piece to six in seven days. Here is what that shape looks like from inside the newsroom, and what would confirm the pattern.
Mistral raises €3 billion to build AI that companies can keep behind their own walls
The French AI company closed the largest equity round in European tech history, led by Samsung, to expand its bet that businesses want powerful AI they can fully control.
Two-year-old British AI firm Nscale is chasing $3.5 billion before a possible IPO this month
The compute startup, founded in 2024, is in talks to raise $1.5 billion in convertible notes and $2 billion from Nvidia as it eyes a stock market listing.
The 2026 Robotics Startup Radar is open: here is how to apply
The Robot Report is accepting submissions from young robotics companies until 6 October 2026. A spot on the list puts a startup in front of investors and engineers who are actively looking for what comes next.
A robot startup just raised $165 million to fix the one thing stopping machines from seeing the world clearly
Lyte AI says robots have a sensing problem, not a model problem. Its new funding will push that argument into factories, warehouses and inspection sites.
AI startup Wonderful hits $5 billion valuation after raising $550 million in six months
The Israeli-Dutch company more than doubled its value since its last funding round. Its secret weapon: teams of engineers who move into clients' offices and wire up AI tools by hand.
AI Security Startup HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million as Companies Race to Protect Their AI Systems
Annual revenue grew more than tenfold in a year. Now HiddenLayer wants to be the security guard standing between your business and the people trying to hijack its AI.
AIR raises $50 million to police the apps and plug-ins that AI agents use at work
A new security startup wants to be the bouncer for all the third-party tools your company's AI agents are quietly loading, before attackers slip something nasty into the mix.
Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200 million to expand driverless freight routes
The California company already runs dozens of autonomous trucks for customers like PepsiCo and Kroger. Now it has the cash to scale to thousands.
Lovable raises $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation
The European startup that lets anyone build web apps by typing plain-language instructions has doubled its valuation in eight months and now hosts 60 million user projects.
A startup called Naïve wants AI software to run your entire company, and 30,000 developers signed up to try it
Naïve just raised $28.5 million to let AI agents handle the paperwork, phone numbers, payments and cloud setup that normally eat a founder's first weeks. The real prize is cutting the runaway cost of keeping those agents running.