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Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.

At Mayfield, Singh will focus on semiconductor, cybersecurity, and physical AI investments.

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Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.

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The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.

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What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.

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A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

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SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 8/19/2026 featuring funding details for K Health, Qualitate, and much more.

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AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by Iconiq, after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.

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The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

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The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.

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Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.

Since portfolio companies often pivot and expand into competing markets, investors view occasional conflicts of interest as unavoidable for large VC firms.

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The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.

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On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.

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ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.

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Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

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Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 8/17/2026 featuring funding details for Daytona, Aligned Marketplace, and much more.

3 new deals and $59.1M+ invested into NYC startups for the week. NYC Tech News for the week ending 8/15/26 featuring news for Flagler Health, Riven Systems, and WashWise, and much, much more...

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OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

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Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.

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How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

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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-ever investment letter.

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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 powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]

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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 powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]

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Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.

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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OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.

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IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.

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Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.

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OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab's top sales job.

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The largest global startup funding rounds of July 2026 topped $2.8B at the high end — and even the smallest round on this list came in at $300M. AI dominates, but the capital is spreading: nuclear microreactors, stellarator fusion, radiopharmaceuticals, and autonomous defense drones all made the cut. Here's the full breakdown, including investor syndicates, founding teams, and total funding histor

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Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.

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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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AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]

AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.  One of […]

From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.

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The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

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OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.

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Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.

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One of OpenAI's longest-serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was "excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point."

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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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What makes New York a particularly fertile place to build a digital health company? We caught up with Kate Ryder, founder and CEO of Maven Clinic, to hear her perspective.

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For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.

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The top US startup funding rounds of July 2026 tell a story of big bets on the future — AI, space, fusion, and physical intelligence. Twelve companies raised between $200M and $10B this month. Here's who made the list and what they're building.

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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 8/11/2026 featuring funding details for Flagler Health and much more.

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Buy-side equity analysts cover dozens of companies, monitor hundreds more, and still rely on largely manual workflows to keep up with earnings, filings, conferences, and news. One New York startup has a different idea: instead of waiting for analysts to query an AI tool, deploy agents that do the work on a schedule and deliver the outputs directly to the analyst's inbox. The company already counts

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