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New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains, plus Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M and is still looking to hire agents as employees, also, Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered sleep tech

Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

Les Amis, the app helping women form friendships, launches in New York ... and more

Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute

Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever ... and more news

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up ... and more

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer ... and more

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint

TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global

Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy

AI agents aren’t the ‘new Google,’ says Airbnb CEO

The high costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click, also OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war

Billing platform Lava raises $5.8M to build digital wallets for the ‘agent-native economy’

Photo-sharing app Locket is banking on a new celebrity-focused feature to fuel its growth plus Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web

For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS and ElevenLabs launched an AI music generator

Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation and Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

OpenMind wants to be the Android operating system of humanoid robots

Germ brings end-to-end encrypted messages to Bluesky

Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

Anthropic cut off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models, also PlayerZero raised $15M and Figma’s stock soared in its IPO

Handwave lends a hand to retailers with its European alternative to Amazon’s palm payments

Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US

How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28 million for their AI marketing automation startup

Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store ... and Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI

Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.

Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious ... and more

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI

Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel

Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B ... plus Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone

Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup

This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents

Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot

The perfect pitch: This NEA partner says every founder should answer these 5 questions

After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering

Confident Security, ‘the Signal for AI,’ comes out of stealth with $4.2M

Rex Salisbury’s Cambrian Ventures raises new fund, bucking fintech slowdown

Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch

Auriga Space raises $6M to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track

AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI

Rainmaker partners with Atmo to squeeze more rain from clouds

Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence

Firefly Space files for an IPO

A cloud seeding startup did not cause the Texas floods

RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology

Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’ ... and more

Knox lands $6.5M to compete with Palantir in the federal compliance market

Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more

European VC breaks taboo by investing in pure defense tech from Ukraine’s war zones

LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

Why this LA-based VC firm was an early investor in Slate Auto

UAE proptech Huspy raises $59M to scale in Europe

Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank

Lovable on track to raise $150M at $2B valuation

Former SpaceX manager alleges harassment, retaliation, and security violations in lawsuit

Lucid sales inch forward as EV maker pushes to ramp Gravity production

Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in

Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots

Sri Mandir keeps investors hooked as digital devotion grows

Tailor, a ‘headless’ ERP startup, raises $22M Series A

Rubrik acquires Predibase to accelerate adoption of AI agents

Google inks its first fusion power deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

PetLibro’s new smart camera uses AI to describe your pet’s movements, and it’s adorable

This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really

Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant

Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars

India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation

Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app

Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers

AllSpice’s platform is the GitHub for electrical engineering teams

Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers

VanMoof is back with a new custom e-bike and rebooted repair network

Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate

Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1

Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating for its female user base

Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion

Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns

Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup

Aspora gets $50M from Sequioa to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora

Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors

Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically slim AI costs

Zevo’s EV-only car-share fleet is helping Tesla owners make money

Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools

Legal tech platform Definely raises $30M Series B to make contract reviewing more efficient

Standard Nuclear emerges from the ashes of a failed startup

Proxima Fusion joins the club of well-funded nuclear contenders with €130M Series A