River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a seed/Series A round led by General…
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Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym |
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest…
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool |
HR software provider Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company track and contain its AI spending. One of…
Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation |
In Brief Posted: 12:02 PM PDT · August 6, 2026 Defense tech Hadrian announced on Thursday that it had raised a fresh $1.37 billionround at…
Trump's DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships |
2:05 PM PDT · August 5, 2026 The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement…
AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big |
Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private…
Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics |
In Brief Posted: 10:16 AM PDT · August 3, 2026 Valar Atomics confirmed the whisperings that it was raising a giant round led by Sequoia…
Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A |
In Brief Posted: 10:50 AM PDT · July 30, 2026 Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile. Just five months after emerging…
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine |
For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has given frontier models various real-world tasks to determine how well they do as…