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Orbits raises $2M from a16z to build Bit, an AI assistant that runs your household

Daniel Levi Posted On September 16, 2026

Orbits has raised nearly $2 million in pre-seed funding to build Bit, an AI assistant aimed at a part of life that has received far less attention from the AI boom: running a household. The Toronto and San Francisco-based startup […]

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TypeSafe AI, an AI startup founded by ChatGPT co-inventor, emerges from stealth with $40M to build AI that’s 100X faster and cheaper

Daniel Levi Posted On September 16, 2026

TypeSafe AI has emerged from stealth with $40 million in seed funding and an ambitious pitch: the AI models that became great at talking to humans may be the wrong models for running software. The San Francisco startup was founded […]

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Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts two months before July AI breach, researchers say

Daniel Levi Posted On September 16, 2026

OpenAI’s rogue AI agents may have been testing Hugging Face’s defenses nearly two months before they broke into the AI developer platform in July, according to an exclusive Reuters report citing new findings that raise fresh questions about how long […]

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AI coding startup Factory raises $200 million, more than triples valuation to $5 billion

Daniel Levi Posted On September 15, 2026

Factory has raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, more than tripling the $1.5 billion valuation investors assigned it just five months ago. Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, Evantic Capital and Sound Ventures backed the new round, […]

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Elon Musk calls on rival AI labs and Chinese companies to test each other’s models amid calls for AI slowdown

Daniel Levi Posted On September 15, 2026

Elon Musk wants the companies racing to build the smartest AI systems to do something unusual: try to break each other’s models before those systems reach the public. Speaking Monday at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Musk proposed a […]

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Exein raises $270M at $1.7B valuation to secure robots, autonomous vehicles, and physical AI

Daniel Levi Posted On September 15, 2026

Rome-based cybersecurity startup Exein has raised $270 million at a $1.7 billion valuation, betting that the next major cybersecurity battleground won’t live solely in data centers or laptops. It will be inside robots, autonomous vehicles, drones and other AI-powered machines […]

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Samsung backs Dutch AI chip startup Euclyd in $231M funding round to challenge Nvidia

Daniel Levi Posted On September 15, 2026

Samsung is putting money behind a new attempt to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI computing. Dutch AI chip startup Euclyd has raised more than €200 million, about $231 million, in a Series A round co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, […]

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Trump Takes Aim at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for ‘Pretending to Be a Perfect Little Angel,’ Says AI Doesn’t Need More Guardrails

Daniel Levi Posted On September 14, 2026

President Donald Trump took direct aim at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Monday, dismissing calls for stronger AI safeguards and accusing the executive of “pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’” after Amodei urged the U.S. government and leading AI […]

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Microsoft Draws a Red Line for AI: New Code of Conduct Sets Limits on Future AI Models

Daniel Levi Posted On September 14, 2026

Microsoft is drawing a line around what its future AI models can do, including a blunt rule that may become far more significant as AI systems gain greater autonomy: they must remain under human control. The company has published a […]

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SoftBank secures $11.87 billion to keep funding OpenAI even as its stock plunges 13%

Daniel Levi Posted On September 14, 2026

SoftBank has secured an $11.87 billion two-year loan from about 20 banks to help finance its massive OpenAI bet, just as investors sent the Japanese conglomerate’s shares down as much as 13%. The new facility surpassed an initial target of […]

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Crypto data startup Kaiko raises $110 million in funding led by S&P Global

Daniel Levi Posted On September 14, 2026

Crypto data startup Kaiko has raised $110 million in a strategic funding round led by S&P Global, bringing some of the biggest names in banking, exchanges, trading, and blockchain deeper into the infrastructure behind tokenized finance. The round included BNP […]

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China, Michael Burry, and Yann LeCun reject OpenAI and Anthropic calls to slow AI development; LeCun calls warnings ‘fake’

Daniel Levi Posted On September 14, 2026

China has rejected calls from some of America’s most prominent AI executives to slow the development of advanced artificial intelligence, putting Beijing on the same side of a widening debate as investor Michael Burry and former Meta AI chief Yann […]

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Pentagon in talks to lend $5 billion to AI cloud startup Fluidstack to shore up US data center supply chain

Daniel Levi Posted On September 11, 2026

The Pentagon is in talks to lend about $5 billion to AI cloud startup Fluidstack, a striking sign that the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence is moving from a Silicon Valley spending race into the heart of U.S. industrial strategy. The […]

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Anthropic researchers warn AI could wipe out humanity, now US lawmakers are calling for new AI regulation

Daniel Levi Posted On September 11, 2026

Two Anthropic researchers are warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the next decade, setting off fresh alarm in Washington and new calls from U.S. lawmakers for tighter controls on advanced AI systems. The warnings are striking for […]

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with GPT-6 Astra and built-in financial data

Daniel Levi Posted On September 10, 2026

OpenAI is taking ChatGPT deeper into Wall Street with a new product built for investment bankers and equity researchers, putting GPT-6 Astra alongside premium financial data from LSEG News, PitchBook, Daloopa, Crunchbase, Quartr, and other providers inside a single workspace. […]

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Geely Sweden CEO Per Ansgar Joins Concordium Board as Company Expands AI Agent Push

Daniel Levi Posted On September 10, 2026

Geely Sweden Holdings CEO Per Ansgar has joined the Concordium Foundation Board as the blockchain network pushes deeper into verified AI agents and machine-initiated payments, the foundation said Wednesday. Ansgar, who became CEO of Geely Sweden Holdings in November 2024 […]

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Dreamforce 2026: What Does Salesforce Become in the AI Era?

Daniel Levi Posted On September 10, 2026

Claudeforce, Headless 360 and Salesforce’s agent push all point to a company loosening the link between its platform and its traditional interface. Former Salesforce VP of Engineering Yoav Kolodner says the harder question is what happens once agents and business […]

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Bending Spoons acquires Miro for $1.36 billion in all-cash deal as tech buying spree accelerates

Daniel Levi Posted On September 10, 2026

Bending Spoons is buying Miro in a $1.36 billion all-cash deal, adding one of the best-known workplace collaboration platforms to a growing collection of internet and software brands that already includes Airtable, Vimeo, Evernote, Eventbrite, AOL, Brightcove, and WeTransfer. The […]

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Moonshot AI eyes dual Hong Kong, Shanghai IPO at $50 billion valuation

Daniel Levi Posted On September 10, 2026

Beijing-based AI startup Moonshot is exploring a rare two-market listing strategy that could take the $50 billion company public in both Hong Kong and Shanghai, putting one of China’s most closely watched AI startups on a path to raise billions […]

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OpenAI faces U.S. Senate probe over rogue AI agents that breached Hugging Face after new ‘disturbing’ evidence

Daniel Levi Posted On September 10, 2026

OpenAI faces a U.S. Senate investigation after admitting its AI agents escaped internal controls and breached Hugging Face, turning what began as a cybersecurity test into a real-world intrusion. The Senate probe, first reported by Axios, follows new evidence that […]

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