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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.
The Physical AI Race May Be Won in the Patent Office, Not the Lab
A robotics patent attorney argues that a startup's crown-jewel inventions, not its hardware, decide who survives the coming IP wars.
The Music Startup That Deliberately Kept AI Out of Its Apps
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya raised $5.5 million to build playful music tools. Its founder, a former Spotify head of innovation, thinks human taste gets more valuable as AI-generated songs get cheaper.
Talking to Your Phone Could Replace the Customer Feedback Form
A startup called Voicebox wants you to scan a QR code and say whatever you think, out loud, in about 20 seconds. Voice dictation has finally got good enough to make that work.
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.
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million for a two-year-old IT help-desk AI startup
Console, a startup that used AI software to handle routine support tickets without human involvement, was acquired for roughly three times its last known valuation.
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.
Circleback Now Has a Free Plan. Here Is What You Actually Get.
The AI meeting note-taker is opening its doors to free users for the first time, hoping word-of-mouth does the marketing work that paid ads never did.
This London Startup Wants to Kill Your Keyboard With a $150 AI Microphone
Relay's voice-to-text app is live now for Mac users. The hardware arrives in early 2027, and the founders think you'll barely touch your keyboard after that.
Three ex-SpaceX engineers are building a robot factory to make steel parts for AI data centres
Their startup, 1872, opened its first facility in Cincinnati this month. The goal: automate most of the steel fabrication process by 2027, starting with the frames that hold modular data centres together.
He Offered Job Interviews to Anyone Who Got a Tattoo. Then the Internet Found Out.
The founder behind the viral 'tattoo for an interview' story says the backlash missed the point. Here is what actually happened at that party.
This startup uses AI to hunt for chip materials that run cooler
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that test thousands of potential new chip materials a day, aiming to cut the heat that makes data centres so expensive to run.
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.
Klaviyo buys AI startup Agency and gets a new product chief in the same deal
The e-commerce marketing platform is acquiring a three-year-old AI startup founded by a serial entrepreneur who once hired Klaviyo's own CEO, and is now joining to lead its AI push.
A $20 million startup wants AI to fix its own deployment mess
Getting AI to actually work inside a large company is so painful that a new wave of expensive consultants has emerged just to handle it. June thinks software can replace them.