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…
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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 |
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AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big |
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Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A |
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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…
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight |
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MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea |
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models and agents securely pull in outside data…