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friday, september 4, 2026· 5 briefs
21:47 Docusign opens its MCP server to any agent 21:46 xAI opens Grok Bot to whole enterprises 21:45 Crusoe triples its valuation to $30B 21:43 Microsoft ships MAI-Transcribe-2 21:40 Tripo AI raises $446M for 3D models thursday, september 3, 2026· 5 briefs
21:37 South Korea's 2027 budget bets big on AI 21:36 Lasso Security's guardrail skips the GPU 21:35 Lyte raises $165M to help robots see 21:34 Wonderful raises $550M, hits $5B valuation 21:33 Palo Alto Networks buys Console for Cortex wednesday, september 2, 2026· 3 briefs
17:00 US backs OpenAI's fair-use defense vs NYT 16:00 NYC bans student AI use through eighth grade 12:00 Huskeys raises $27M to police AI traffic tuesday, september 1, 2026· 4 briefs
20:30 Anthropic ships Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 17:00 AIR raises $50M to vet AI agent plugins 17:00 Anthropic lets enterprises hold their own Claude data 12:00 Anthropic signs $35B compute deal with Lambda monday, august 31, 2026· 8 briefs
23:10 AI group launches $50M data center ad blitz 23:00 China sets terms for talks, hits Claude 22:50 Meta tests robots to replace data techs 22:30 Clipto raises $15M to search video like text 22:20 DeepSeek nears $7.4B round at $74B valuation 22:10 ChatGPT ads hit $1B run rate in 200 days 22:00 Nvidia puts $3.5B into MediaTek chips 19:00 Pentagon adds ChatGPT and Grok to its AI portal sunday, august 30, 2026· 2 briefs
22:35 Small aviation firm becomes a $500M AI campus 22:20 a16z raises $1.1B just for AI hardware saturday, august 29, 2026· 8 briefs
22:45 OpenAI expects AGI internally this year 22:40 Meta's scrapped plan to cut teams 60% via AI 22:35 Amazon shuts Mechanical Turk after 21 years 22:30 Nvidia pauses AI cloud revenue-share plan 22:25 Nvidia in talks to back Perplexity at $30B+ 21:55 Salesforce puts its whole CRM inside Claude 21:50 Sony, Warner sue Anthropic over song lyrics 21:45 OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX deal friday, august 28, 2026· 7 briefs
21:58 Transfyr raises $25M for lab observability 21:56 OpenAI opens its first Americas office 21:52 Anthropic expands free Claude for scientists 21:46 Barret Zoph lands at Google DeepMind 21:44 Meta's India VP leaves for OpenAI 21:42 Instinct raises $250M at $2.5B valuation 21:40 Judge voids Anthropic's Pentagon label thursday, august 27, 2026· 4 briefs
22:25 OpenAI brings ChatGPT ads to India 22:20 Amazon triples its Nvidia GPU order for AWS 22:15 Anthropic signs $45B Nscale deal 22:10 Nvidia forecasts $673B in FY2028 sales wednesday, august 26, 2026· 5 briefs
22:35 Korean AI app maker Wrtn tops 1 trillion won valuation 22:30 Stability AI raises $76M from music and gaming labels 22:25 Gatik raises $200M to scale driverless freight 22:20 Emerald AI raises $150M to make data centers grid-flexible 22:15 OpenAI's data center chief is out tuesday, august 25, 2026· 3 briefs
22:45 Gamma acquires design startup Lica 22:30 GPT-5.6 lands in AWS's Kiro coding agent 22:00 Mistral bets big on Saudi sovereign AI monday, august 24, 2026· 4 briefs
23:50 Nvidia in talks to back Perplexity at $30B+ 23:35 XPeng's robot unit raises $900M for IRON 22:05 General Intuition raises at $6B for robots 21:50 Nvidia signs deal to buy Hugging Face sunday, august 23, 2026· 1 brief
21:40 Nvidia pays Poolside $6B in licensing deal friday, august 21, 2026· 2 briefs
19:20 Starcloud raises $250M as launches tighten 18:40 Google adds reader controls to Search thursday, august 20, 2026· 2 briefs
19:46 Ramp launches Router, an LLM model router 01:00 Veeda AI raises $90M for world models wednesday, august 19, 2026· 5 briefs
23:00 Rillet hits $1B valuation on AI accounting 17:00 Cerebras launches the CS-4 inference system 17:00 Replit's free mode runs on GPT-5.6 Luna 15:00 ChatGPT ads expand to 31 European markets 13:00 Startup raises $22M for faster data-center fiber tuesday, august 18, 2026· 4 briefs
23:15 Higgsfield raises $400M at $5.4B valuation 22:25 Etched's valuation doubles again to $21B 22:00 Anthropic's revenue run rate hits $65B 18:00 AWS lets agents pay for things on their own monday, august 17, 2026· 3 briefs
22:00 Wispr raises $280M, moves past dictation 21:55 Groq raises $350M, pivots to neocloud 21:45 NVIDIA backs $105B OpenAI Ohio data center sunday, august 16, 2026· 1 brief
22:45 Apple built a China AI model with Alibaba saturday, august 15, 2026· 4 briefs
22:05 Cognition in talks to raise at $40B value 21:55 Writer's Palmyra X6 targets token costs 21:50 IBM and OpenAI strike enterprise AI deal 21:45 Apple in talks to pay publishers per use friday, august 14, 2026· 2 briefs
21:50 DeepSeek raises API prices up to 4x 01:25 Anthropic investors reportedly eye a $2T IPO thursday, august 13, 2026· 3 briefs
23:50 Lovable doubles its valuation to $13.3B 23:30 OpenAI hires its second revenue chief in a year 22:20 Anthropic reportedly in talks to buy Decart for $6B tuesday, august 11, 2026· 5 briefs
22:20 Lambda borrows $917M to buy Nvidia GPUs 22:15 Mistral pushes sovereign AI infrastructure 22:05 OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT 21:55 OpenAI completes $7B employee tender offer 21:50 River AI raises $1.1B for personal agents monday, august 10, 2026· 1 brief
22:05 AI hedge fund bets $400M on chip tooling saturday, august 8, 2026· 1 brief
23:00 OpenAI quietly bought a presentation startup thursday, august 6, 2026· 2 briefs
23:00 AMD buys Taalas to bake models into chips 21:45 Jeff Dean exits Google, DeepMind reshuffles wednesday, august 5, 2026· 4 briefs
23:00 Anthropic confirms in-house AI chip team 17:40 Court: user, not agent, accesses the site 17:20 Convex raises $57M to harden agent backends 17:00 Anaconda buys AI-security firm Enkrypt AI tuesday, august 4, 2026· 7 briefs
23:20 Nvidia and Dell back a $2.4B AI cloud upstart 22:45 Horizon3 triples to $2B running AI pentests 22:30 HappyRobot hits $1.2B running phone-call agents 22:25 Obsidian Security hits unicorn status at $1.1B 22:20 Zenity raises $125M to police AI agents 22:15 Anthropic names its first global affairs chief 22:10 Bending Spoons buys Airtable for $1.285B monday, august 3, 2026· 2 briefs
22:28 DesignArena raises $7.9M for AI model taste 13:00 June AI raises $20M to deploy AI agents sunday, august 2, 2026· 1 brief
21:20 Google scraps its AI Studio mobile app friday, july 31, 2026· 5 briefs
13:00 Smallest.ai raises $13M for voice AI 12:40 OpenAI gives 100,000 researchers free access 12:20 Judge says Pentagon lacks Anthropic proof 00:20 Dili raises $15M for infra compliance AI 00:10 Bedrock adds explicit caching for GPT-5.6 thursday, july 30, 2026· 8 briefs
23:30 Microsoft books $3.2B Anthropic stake gain 23:20 Nscale buys Anyscale, the Ray creator 23:10 Okta buys AI-identity firm Permiso 22:50 OpenAI details GPT-5.6's efficiency gains 22:40 Microsoft confirms a Copilot 'super app' 22:30 Meta's Q2 call: personal agents for billions 22:20 Thinking Machines co-founder joins OpenAI 22:10 DeepMind dissolves its AlphaFold team wednesday, july 29, 2026· 5 briefs
23:00 Recursive Superintelligence's $410M AWS deal 22:45 MCP startup sues Rippling over its gateway 22:35 Amazon plans to consolidate its Nova models 22:30 xAI launches Grok Build Mode 22:05 Zuckerberg's counter to the AI pacing letter tuesday, july 28, 2026· 3 briefs
22:25 Cyera buys identity-security startup for $1B 22:20 Cursor cuts to $7/month, India only 22:00 Cognizant becomes a top-tier Claude partner monday, july 27, 2026· 3 briefs
22:20 Sutskever SSI gets Nvidia cash, Rubin access 22:05 Nvidia, SK Group ink $500B AI infra deal 22:00 Nvidia may back OpenAI's Ohio data center sunday, july 26, 2026· 4 briefs
23:15 DeepSeek pauses $1.5B round after leaked chat 23:00 Ex-SentinelOne raises $100M to police agents 22:45 Meshy raises $400M, largest AI-3D round yet 22:30 Genesis AI in talks for $500M robotics round saturday, july 25, 2026· 4 briefs
22:15 Moonshot AI plans pre-IPO round near $50B 22:10 Robotics startup Humanoid raises $152M 22:05 Reid Hoffman's Prentis raises $100M 22:00 Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~$10B friday, july 24, 2026· 6 briefs
22:00 Midjourney buys astrology app Co-Star 21:50 Ramp opens its AI router to everyone 21:40 Devin can now run on your own hardware 21:30 Cognition buys Poke, a text-message AI agent 21:20 AMD launches Helios rack to rival NVIDIA 21:10 Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 thursday, july 23, 2026· 5 briefs
21:00 Cursor ships a router to cut model costs 60% 20:30 Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7B 20:00 Etched raises $300M at $10.3B valuation 18:00 ChatGPT Health relaunches to all US users 16:00 AMD to invest up to $5B in Anthropic wednesday, july 22, 2026· 7 briefs
22:15 Dorsey's Block launches Buzz, AI chat rival 22:10 OpenAI adds two bank CEOs to its boards 22:05 Glow launches at $1.2B for AI endpoints 22:00 SkyPilot raises $20M to unify AI compute 21:50 OpenAI lifts compute spending plan to $750B 21:45 OpenAI launches Presence for agents 21:40 Google ships Gemini 3.6 Flash, skips 3.5 Pro tuesday, july 21, 2026· 1 brief
21:45 Microsoft deepens its Mistral partnership monday, july 20, 2026· 1 brief
21:54 Codex quietly caps GPT-5.6 context at 272K sunday, july 19, 2026· 2 briefs
21:05 Google AI Mode can act inside your apps now 21:00 Fireworks raises $1.5B at $17.5B valuation saturday, july 18, 2026· 5 briefs
21:52 Bedrock's managed knowledge base goes GA 21:51 Netflix paid $587M for Affleck's AI startup 21:50 Harvey buys asset-manager AI firm Benchmark 21:49 SAP closes its €1B tabular-AI acquisition 21:45 Databricks raises at a $188B valuation thursday, july 16, 2026· 7 briefs
21:52 TYLsemi raises $43M for AI chiplets 21:48 Rime raises $24M, names chief scientist 21:46 Spectro Cloud raises $100M Series D 21:42 InstaLILY raises $60M Series B for Lily 21:40 Valarian raises $50M for sovereign AI 21:36 Oak raises $60M for AI identity control 17:20 Walden Robotics raises $300M at $1.1B wednesday, july 15, 2026· 5 briefs
22:30 OpenAI's first hardware is a moving speaker 22:25 Anthropic lines up investor meetings for IPO 22:20 AI coding startup Emergent hits unicorn 22:10 China approves Apple Intelligence with Qwen 22:05 Anthropic, Blackstone launch $1.5B AI firm tuesday, july 14, 2026· 5 briefs
22:20 Claude for Teachers goes free for US K-12 21:30 Publishers sue Google over Gemini training 09:10 Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield for compute 02:31 Nous Research in talks for $75M round 00:01 GPT-5.6 family reaches Amazon Bedrock GA monday, july 13, 2026· 4 briefs
23:00 PixVerse raises $439M, tops $2B valuation 19:00 Prefect acquires Dagster Labs 17:00 Helsing raises $1.8B at $18B valuation 16:00 Chai Discovery raises $400M Series C sunday, july 12, 2026· 1 brief
21:30 SK Hynix raises $26.5B in biggest foreign IPO saturday, july 11, 2026· 1 brief
21:30 Apple sues OpenAI over hardware secrets friday, july 10, 2026· 5 briefs
21:30 Fidji Simo leaves OpenAI No. 2 post 21:30 GPT-5.6 is now the M365 Copilot model 21:30 Gradium raises $100M for voice AI 21:30 Lyzr raises $100M, agent ran the round 21:30 Mercor buys Deeptune for agent training thursday, july 9, 2026· 5 briefs
21:30 Anthropic adds Ben Bernanke to benefit trust 21:30 ChatGPT Work launches with Hosted Sites 21:30 GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna go public 21:30 Ollama raises $65M Series B 21:30 Thrive Holdings raises $2B for AI rollups wednesday, july 8, 2026· 6 briefs
23:00 SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.5, built with Cursor 19:00 SpaceXAI and Cursor ship Grok 4.5 17:00 Bespoke Labs raises $40M to train agents 17:00 Norm AI hits unicorn with $120M round 17:00 OpenAI starts charging for Workspace Agents 10:16 SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation tuesday, july 7, 2026· 2 briefs
21:00 Fable 5 becomes a permanent Max feature 03:00 Microsoft shifts Excel, Outlook AI in-house monday, july 6, 2026· 3 briefs
19:00 Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs, expands AI unit 17:00 Fable 5 exits subscriptions July 8 03:00 TeraWulf signs $19B data center lease saturday, july 4, 2026· 1 brief
21:34 Nvidia trades GPU financing for revenue cut friday, july 3, 2026· 6 briefs
06:22 Kling AI raises $2B as Kuaishou spins out 06:20 Turakhia self-funds Neo with $30M 06:14 OpenAI floats 5% US government stake 06:12 Berkeley's Jelani Nelson joins Anthropic 06:10 TwelveLabs raises $100M for video AI 06:00 Together AI raises $800M at $8.3B tuesday, june 30, 2026· 1 brief
19:00 Etched AI chip exits stealth with $800M raised monday, june 29, 2026· 1 brief
21:00 Anthropic strikes deal with California saturday, june 27, 2026· 6 briefs
20:40 Airwallex raises $320M for finance agents 20:38 Quantifind raises $200M for risk agents 14:38 Coval raises $28M to test voice agents 14:34 Runlayer raises $30M to govern AI agents 08:47 Sikka's Hang Ten raises $32M for AI agents 08:44 Anthropic lifts Claude API rate limits friday, june 26, 2026· 1 brief
14:00 FactSet adds MCP for portfolio analytics thursday, june 25, 2026· 2 briefs
08:45 Engram raises $98M for AI memory 08:42 Qualcomm buys Modular to take on CUDA wednesday, june 24, 2026· 4 briefs
20:40 OpenAI and Broadcom reveal Jalapeño chip 14:45 Grok Build adds autonomous /goal mode 00:55 Anthropic launches Claude Tag for Slack 00:55 Mistral OCR 4 tops document AI tests tuesday, june 23, 2026· 1 brief
08:42 Groq raises $650M for its inference cloud monday, june 22, 2026· 2 briefs
19:50 Codex turns recorded workflows into skills 08:45 Samsung deploys ChatGPT and Codex sunday, june 21, 2026· 2 briefs
19:41 Sanders pitches a public AI wealth fund 19:35 ChatGPT Enterprise gets spend controls saturday, june 20, 2026· 1 brief
09:20 Nobel laureate Jumper joins Anthropic friday, june 19, 2026· 2 briefs
19:30 Subquadratic's LLM claims face scrutiny 08:45 US developers turn to cheaper Chinese AI thursday, june 18, 2026· 2 briefs
19:31 Anthropic opens Seoul AI office 09:05 Grok 4.3 lands on Amazon Bedrock wednesday, june 17, 2026· 2 briefs
08:45 Anthropic pauses Agent SDK billing change 08:42 ChatGPT slips below half the AI market tuesday, june 16, 2026· 4 briefs
20:05 Copilot flaw let attackers steal data 19:55 Leaked docs detail OpenAI's 2025 losses 19:45 SpaceX buys Cursor in $60B deal 09:00 Meta adds AI Mode search to Facebook monday, june 15, 2026· 4 briefs
19:36 Sarvam becomes India's newest AI unicorn 19:33 NewCore raises $66M to govern AI agents 19:30 Salesforce buys Fin for $3.6 billion 09:00 OpenAI launches a partner network sunday, june 14, 2026· 2 briefs
19:45 Bank regulators ramp up AI scrutiny 08:46 KPMG pulls AI report over fake citations saturday, june 13, 2026· 8 briefs
19:00 OpenAI retires GPT-5.2 from ChatGPT 15:30 Fired engineer sues xAI over Grok safety 04:22 Zuckerberg admits Meta's AI reset is rocky 04:18 Anthropic funds 1,000 AI nonprofit fellows 04:14 Bezos raises $12B for Project Prometheus 04:08 State AGs open investigation into OpenAI 04:06 Google sues AI-powered scam text network 04:00 US export controls hit top Claude models friday, june 12, 2026· 2 briefs
18:00 OpenAI and Codex land on Oracle's cloud 13:30 OpenAI buys Ona to give Codex a cloud home