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Aug 26, 2026, 10:19 am By Rebecca Bellan
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and…Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
Aug 26, 2026, 9:43 am By Amanda Silberling
The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict…Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Aug 26, 2026, 9:30 am By Tim Fernholz
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
Aug 26, 2026, 9:12 am By Ivan Mehta
Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
Aug 26, 2026, 9:00 am By Tim Fernholz
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and…Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Aug 26, 2026, 8:55 am By Russell Brandom
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with…Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
Aug 26, 2026, 8:00 am By Aisha Malik
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology…Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Aug 26, 2026, 7:00 am By Jagmeet Singh
Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying…Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund
Aug 26, 2026, 3:00 am By Dominic-Madori Davis
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Aug 25, 2026, 11:30 pm By Ivan Mehta
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
Aug 25, 2026, 8:40 pm By Marina Temkin
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion…OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
Aug 25, 2026, 8:06 pm By Lucas Ropek
Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting…X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping
Aug 25, 2026, 4:44 pm By Sarah Perez
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X…Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
Aug 25, 2026, 3:22 pm By Lauren Forristal
Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced…Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
Aug 25, 2026, 3:03 pm By Lucas Ropek
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana
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If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start…Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Aug 25, 2026, 1:50 pm By Sarah Perez
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to…Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich
Aug 25, 2026, 1:32 pm By Kirsten Korosec
Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and…
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