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TechCrunch AI
Jul 16, 2026

Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 16, 2026

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 16, 2026

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 16, 2026

Why AMI Labs' Alexandre LeBrun won't call his AI 'AGI' or 'superintelligence'

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun's world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 16, 2026

Moonshot's upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 16, 2026

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu

The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

Uber to acquire Delivery Hero in €13B deal, creating platform spanning 99 countries

Uber and one of its affiliates have entered into a business combination agreement to acquire Delivery Hero, thereby extending the mobility and delivery platform to 99 countries. Under the terms of th...

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NVIDIA Blog
Jul 16, 2026

Sharpen the Sword, Skip the Downloads - 'Onimusha: Way of the Sword' Is Coming to GeForce NOW

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is coming to GeForce NOW at launch, with the playable demo available this week. It's joined by Denshattack! rolling in with five new games arriving in the cloud. Plus, GeForce NOW officially launches in India, moving from beta to public availability - meaning gamers can sign up without a waitlist. [...]

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

Juno Bio secures $3.8M and opens first sequencing lab dedicated to women's health

Juno Bio, a UK-founded women's health company dedicated to closing the gender health gap through precision vaginal microbiome testing and multi-omics, today announced the opening of its first sequenci...

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jul 16, 2026

Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia

In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground. Nothing appears unusual on deck. Nets remain in the water. Engines maintain a steady speed. To the crew, it is an ordinary day at sea. Yet hundreds of kilometers above, satellites continuously record the vessel's position. At Indonesia's Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance Station, in Cilacap, where I work, a monitoring platform receives the signal and automatically compares it against fis

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Hugging Face
Jul 16, 2026

Newer Models, Same Advantage

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

Why the best time to invest in Ukraine is now

Roman Sulzhyk, Founding Partner of Ukrainian investment fund Resist.UA, has a message for the world when it comes to investing in the Ukrainian startup ecosystem: "If you wait until after the war, yo...

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Crunchbase News
Jul 16, 2026

The Billion-Dollar Seed Isn't The Deal You Think It Is

Despite attention-grabbing AI mega-seed rounds, historical data shows that very large first financings rarely produce venture-scale returns because high entry valuations limit investor upside. Instead, argues guest author Ellie McDonald, the strongest venture outcomes have typically come from capital-efficient startups that raised modest early rounds.

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Crunchbase News
Jul 16, 2026

China And AI Lead Asia's Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2

Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. Led by China's $7.4 billion DeepSeek raise, that's by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years.

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n8n Blog
Jul 16, 2026

Fine-Tuning vs. RAG: When To Use Each for Production LLMs

Explore fine-tuning versus RAG to understand how they differ, when each approach works best, and why many production LLM systems use both.

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Google DeepMind
Jul 16, 2026

Our approach to bioresilience

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

Omio Group to acquire Rail Europe in bid to create global rail travel powerhouse

Multimodal traveltech company Omio Group has signed a deal to acquire Rail Europe. Upon completion, Rail Europe will become part of Omio Group, joining Omio's B2C booking platform, its B2B distributi...

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

Hyperion Robotics secures $7.4M to expand robotic construction

Hyperion Robotics, a Finnish physical AI company developing robotic manufacturingtechnology for infrastructure construction, has raised $7.4 million in a growthfunding round to scale its robotic micro...

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

Arq secures $1.4M pre-seed for quantum internet technology

Arq, a Spanish quantum technology startup developing networkinghardware for the quantum internet, has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seedfunding round to accelerate the development of its quantum commun...

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

SWISSto12 raises $70M Series C to scale multi-orbit business

SWISSto12, aSwiss aerospace company developing satellite payloads and platforms for thespace and telecommunications industries, has raised $70 million in a Series Cfunding round to expand its manufact...

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

Applied Computing lands $20M to expand foundation AI for energy

Applied Computing, a British artificial intelligencecompany developing foundation models for energy operations, has raised $20million in a funding round led by KBR, with participation from Databricks ...

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Tech.eu
Jul 16, 2026

Syntetica raises $30M Series A for circular nylon recycling

Syntetica, a deeptech company developing recyclingtechnology for complex textile waste, has raised $30 million in a Series Afunding round to scale its nylon recycling platform and bring its technology...

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 16, 2026

Workato vs. Zapier for large businesses: Which is best? [2026]

Everyone has opinions about how to run a big meeting. Should the host run the show, or are participants free to jump in with questions or input when they feel like it? (And, if you're me, is this Zoom meeting even worthwhile unless it's just an excuse to meet everyone's dog on camera?) Enterprise automation is equally impacted by a business's approach to leadership and democratization. Every business owner has their own strong feelings about who should touch production systems. Workato and Zapi

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 16, 2026

Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 16, 2026

Zapier vs. Gumloop: Which is best? [2026]

AI agents are everywhere right now, and platforms like Gumloop are betting that enterprises want tools built specifically to design, launch, and manage agents. But here's the question: do you need a specialized app for agentic workflows, or a platform that integrates agents more broadly into your existing business processes? Most enterprises already use dozens of tools across departments, including CRMs, project management software, HR platforms, and communication apps. The real challenge isn't

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MIT News AI
Jul 16, 2026

A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 16, 2026

Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE's coverage of RAISE Summit

Agentic inference is reshaping the center of gravity in AI infrastructure. What began as a race to scale training has shifted into a phase defined by expanding context windows, memory‑augmented reasoning and the need to keep graphics processing units continuously fed with data. As enterprises push deeper into agentic systems, storage has moved into the [...] The post Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE's coverage of RAISE Summit appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 16, 2026

QumulusAI's direct listing: Accelerating the neocloud for enterprise AI

Neocloud provider QumulusAI said today that it will starting trading Thursday as a publicly traded company on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol QMLS via a direct listing. For those unfamiliar with the process, the typical initial public offering takes time and requires an investment banker, whereas a direct listing does not create new shares. Instead, existing [...] The post QumulusAI's direct listing: Accelerating the neocloud for enterprise AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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Hugging Face
Jul 16, 2026

Security incident disclosure - July 2026

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Inc. today launched its first foundation model with the release of Inkling, making its full open weights available to developers so they can fine-tune it as they wish. Inkling is the first model fully trained from scratch by Thinking Machines, coming after a year in which the company mostly made [...] The post Mira Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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NVIDIA Blog
Jul 15, 2026

NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI

General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact, power-efficient AI supercomputers capable of running foundation models at the edge. To meet that need, NVIDIA today introduced the T3000 and T2000, new modules based on the NVIDIA Thor architecture that enable mass-market robotics and edge AI [...]

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging

Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after silicon has been customized and produced, marking how chips and components get used in electronic devices. AuraStack, a super-agent within the company's Allegro AI studio, provides agentic [...] The post Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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VentureBeat AI
Jul 15, 2026

Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem - and most are calling chatbots agents

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms - Anthropic's Claude leads by a wide margin - chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed "agents" are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is deliberately hybrid to avoid lock-in, and real-time fiscal control over token burn remains the exception. This wave of VentureBeat Pulse Research examines enterprise agent orchestration: which platforms enterprises run on, what dri

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 15, 2026

AI agent frameworks: Definition, comparison, and guide

Over the last year, I've seen a shift in how teams talk about AI. Chatbots, once the center of attention, are no longer the primary focus. Instead, more businesses are moving toward autonomous AI systems. AI agents are what you reach for when you want a system that can break down a task, make decisions, interact with tools, and learn from its mistakes (unlike me). Designing and integrating these complex systems with external tools isn't straightforward. AI agent frameworks, which offer pre-built

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

AWS adds AI-assisted product listing service to its Marketplace portfolio

Product listings in AWS Marketplace gained new AI-based features last month in anticipation of continued growth in the use of enterprise agents. Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled AI-assisted product listings in Product Assistant chat, a feature that helps independent software vendors and consulting partners develop comprehensive product listings for AWS Marketplace using existing digital assets. [...] The post AWS adds AI-assisted product listing service to its Marketplace portfolio appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Construction robot startup Monumental reels in $32M

Monumental BV, a Dutch startup that operates a fleet of bricklaying robots, has raised $35 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series B investment. Monumental stated in its funding announcement today that existing backers Plural and Hummingbird chipped in as well. Monumental uses robots to construct the walls of homes, schools and other buildings. [...] The post Construction robot startup Monumental reels in $32M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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MIT News AI
Jul 15, 2026

3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design

Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their chatbot ever says a word.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

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Crunchbase M&A
Jul 15, 2026

Stripe's Acquisition Pace Has Accelerated In The Past Five Years, But Nothing Comes Close To Its Reported $53B PayPal Bet

Payments giant Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have teamed up to make an offer to buy troubled PayPal in a deal valued at more than $53 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jul 15, 2026

Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance

Built partnered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC), AWS Partner AND Digital, and AWS account teams to create a scalable, AI-powered document processing engine that can classify, split, extract, evaluate, and reason over complex real estate finance documents. It reduces workflows that previously took days to minutes, supports hundreds of document types, and gives technical teams and industry experts a shared environment for building and improving document processors.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jul 15, 2026

Agentic vision: Building visual intelligence with Amazon Bedrock and MCP servers

In this post, we walk you through the Computer Vision MCP Server, which illustrates this approach, representing how AI systems can process visual information and make intelligent decisions through a single, standardized interface. This convergence transforms what was once a complex integration challenge into a streamlined process, making AI capabilities accessible to a broader range of applications and developers.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jul 15, 2026

Monitor Amazon SageMaker Pipelines cross-account with custom Amazon CloudWatch dashboards

In this post, we present a solution designed to centralize the monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using Amazon CloudWatch custom dashboards. The accompanying GitHub repository provides a customizable AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) example of the required infrastructure.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

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Hugging Face
Jul 15, 2026

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

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Hugging Face
Jul 15, 2026

Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn't.

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MIT Tech Review
Jul 15, 2026

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says that training it against GPT-Red made the model its most robust release yet. GPT-Red automates...

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot's personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Atlassian evolves Jira into an orchestration hub for developers and AI agents

Atlassian Corp. today announced it is expanding Jira with updates that will help developers prepare, distribute and track work performed by artificial intelligence agents. The company's new Jira Planner helps turn incomplete project ideas into technical specifications, while its Jira Coding Agent and integrations with third-party agents transform work items into requests. With automation rules [...] The post Atlassian evolves Jira into an orchestration hub for developers and AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Perplexity launches secure sandbox to make its AI agents secure and powerful

Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced a new feature that takes its current agentic artificial intelligence service, Computer, to perform better with greater security. The company introduced SPACE, a sandbox platform designed to allow its AI agent to act with its full capabilities, while providing the highest level of security for agentic systems. Perplexity Computer can [...] The post Perplexity launches secure sandbox to make its AI agents secure and powerful appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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Google Cloud AI
Jul 15, 2026

IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI

Editor's note: Today we hear from IDC on the results of its 2026 AI in Networking Special Report Survey exploring the enterprises' concerns about networking infrastructure to support the rise of agentic AI in their organizations. The survey was sponsored by Google Cloud. Enterprises are moving quickly on AI pilots, but the move from pilot to production remains uneven. While AI models remain important, IDC research indicates that the pilot-to-production bottleneck is primarily infrastructure-centric, with core networking concerns emerging as one of the leading drivers of AI project delays and a

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jul 15, 2026

The First Chatbot's Multiple Personalities

ELIZA is remembered as the world's first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users' worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction. For some, it heralded an age of automated psychotherapy, while others believed the program demonstrated sentience, a fallacy soon known as the "ELIZA effect." Based on published descriptions, ELIZA has been implemented on many different computers, but only recently has the actual source code been unearthed from MIT's archives. In Inventing ELIZA: How

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba's Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple's AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba's Qwen AI models to Apple's operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company's generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise

Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That's the bet behind Ode with Anthropic - the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others. On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode's leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, [...]

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Scaling startups create Europe's most successful founders, Antler finds

Research published today by global early-stage VC firm Antler reveals that the single most important decision a founder can make is which company they work at before building their own, and specifical...

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Norrsken Evolve plants roots in Amsterdam after €62M fund close

Norrsken Evolve, the European pre-seed fund investing in founders tackling climate, health and resilience challenges, is formalising its Amsterdam presence by taking up base at Norrsken House Amsterda...

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Saible raises £2.9M to tackle construction's chronic late-payment crisis

Saible, a UK construction fintech building software to stop project money from being delayed, withheld or trapped before it reaches suppliers, has raised £2.9 million from angel investors. The funding...

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Pollen is building the battery-swapping network electric motorcycles have been waiting for

Urban mobility is increasingly shifting toward electrification as cities aim to reduce emissions and improve air quality. However, while more than 60 per cent of new passenger cars sold in the EU we...

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Chipmaker Axelera releases Voyager Wingman to speed edge AI development

Edge artificial intelligence chip company Axelera AI B.V. today publicly released Voyager Wingman, an AI assistant that lets developers build and troubleshoot applications for its edge chips by typing plain-language requests instead of digging through documentation. The tool connects to the company's Voyager software development kit and its full documentation set. Developers can describe the [...] The post Chipmaker Axelera releases Voyager Wingman to speed edge AI development appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jul 15, 2026

This AI Folds DNA Into Mini Masterpieces

Shaped like dogs, stars, and the Mona Lisa, you could mistake these DNA structures for fun-shaped macaroni if they weren't only nanometers wide. South Korean scientists made the constructions using a technique called DNA origami, which can bend genetic material into any form. Designing DNA strands so they'll fold into a specific shape typically requires tedious manual work, but the researchers behind the playful fabrications have developed a shortcut using generative AI. The AI model, called Generative SNUPI (short for Structured Nucleic Acids Programming Interface, and, yes, inspired by the d

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Reelful's AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media

The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Monumental secures $32M Series B to accelerate construction automation

Monumental,the Amsterdam-based construction technology company developing autonomousrobotics and software for the building industry, has raised $32 million in aSeries B funding round led by Khosla Ven...

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Emergent emerges as the latest AI unicorn after raising $130M in funding

Emergent Labs Inc., a vibe coding startup that aims to give nontechnical users the tools to develop production-grade enterprise software, has closed on its third major round of funding in just 10 months after raising $130 million. The Series C round, announced today, was led by Creaegis and Claypond and saw participation from Khosla Ventures, [...] The post Emergent emerges as the latest AI unicorn after raising $130M in funding appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

AGI raises $70M to buy up and transform insurance firms into AI-native operations

A startup called American Growth Insurance said today it has raised almost $70 million in committed equity capital to transform the insurance industry. It plans to do so with an aggressive, technology-focused business model that's quite unlike anything its competitors do. AGI, officially known as AGI Holdings LLC, says it has worked out how to use [...] The post AGI raises $70M to buy up and transform insurance firms into AI-native operations appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Creatio expands beyond its no-code roots with conversational development tool and AI studio

Creatio Inc. today introduced what it calls a major update to its customer relationship management and workflow platform that enables business users and information technology teams to build, deploy and govern artificial intelligence agents alongside conventional customer workflows. The Creatio 10x release combines the company's CRM applications with new tools for developing personal assistants, deterministic [...] The post Creatio expands beyond its no-code roots with conversational development tool and AI studio appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

AI DevOps startup MyDecisive launches with $12M and open-source SmartHub

Artificial intelligence DevOps startup MyDecisive formally launched today and announced $12 million in new funding to bring to market an open-source foundation for managing observability data and a commercial suite it says can slash what enterprises spend running production systems. Ari Zilka founded MyDecisive in San Francisco in 2023, backed by a long track record [...] The post AI DevOps startup MyDecisive launches with $12M and open-source SmartHub appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet

The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.

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Wired AI
Jul 15, 2026

An Inventor of Apple's FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain's Health With AI

Gidi Littwin's new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson's. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.

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Crunchbase News
Jul 15, 2026

Fintech Funding Surges 23% In H1 2026 As Investors Concentrate Their Bets On AI And Financial Infrastructure

Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, Crunchbase data shows, a sign that investors are writing fewer, but much larger checks into the sector as they focus on areas such as wealth management, financial infrastructure and enterprise automation. We take a look at the numbers.

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Crunchbase News
Jul 15, 2026

Corporate Venture Capital Is Splitting In Two

The wind-downs at PayPal and Fidelity International may look like a retreat, but the data points to a concentration of power at the top of the market that smaller funds will feel first, writes guest author Steve Brotman of Alpha Partners.

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NVIDIA Blog
Jul 15, 2026

NVIDIA and Japan Bring Full-Stack AI and Robotics to Every Industry

Home to leading manufacturers, robotics pioneers and infrastructure builders, Japan is one of the world's centers of AI - building across the full stack with NVIDIA technologies. NVIDIA and its partners in Japan are this week showcasing the AI ecosystem's latest advancements. Check back here for updates. NVIDIA and SEGA Celebrate 30 Years of [...]

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Nous secures €2.3M+ seed funding to scale Koncentra

Nous, an Italianingredient company developing functional ingredients for the food, beverage andnutraceutical industries, has raised €2.315 million in a seed funding round toaccelerate the commercialis...

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

SuperCharger Ventures launches Fund I to back global edtech and future-of-work startups

Maltese investor SuperCharger Ventures today announced the launch of Fund I with a plan to invest in edtech and Future-of-Work companies worldwide, with a focus on pre-seed and seed-stage startups. In...

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 15, 2026

The 4 best read it later apps to save content in 2026

Sometimes, during the work day, I stumble upon a really interesting but really long article that I don't have time to read at the moment. This is the moment read-it-later apps are built for. The idea: you can save the article, then get back to it later when you have time. I don't know how I lived before finding these kinds of apps, which I've been using for around 15 years. For this roundup, I considered over 20 read it later apps. After extensive testing, I can say that these are the four best

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Finland clears Bliq.ai for driverless vehicle operations

Bliq.ai today announced that Finland has approved Bliq Driverless for public road operations with immediate effect. The decision follows Finland's recognition of Bliq's existing . Operations will init...

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Float raises €4.5M Series A to bridge Europe's funding gap

Float, the Stockholm-founded revenue-basedfinancing platform for tech SMEs, has secured a €4.5 million Series A fundinground led by Hamburg-based CHAPTERS Group AG. As part of the investment,CHAPTERS ...

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Tech.eu
Jul 15, 2026

Neko Health raises $700M as demand grows for preventive health scans

Neko Health today announced the completion of its $700 million Series C funding round. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners, with participation from e...

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 15, 2026

Construction automation startup TerraFirma raises $115M

TerraFirma Inc., a startup with a platform that enables construction teams to remotely operate heavy machinery, has raised $115 million in funding. The bulk of the capital arrived in the form of a $100 million Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins. TerraFirma disclosed today that Bain Capital, Definition and more than a half-dozen other [...] The post Construction automation startup TerraFirma raises $115M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 15, 2026

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.

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Hugging Face
Jul 15, 2026

Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines

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Hugging Face
Jul 15, 2026

Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 14, 2026

InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M

Enterprise automation startup InstaLILY Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $60 million Series B round of funding that brings its total amount raised to date to almost $100 million. In addition, it launched a new tool that can help companies to quickly build, deploy and then continuously update and maintain software that [...] The post InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 14, 2026

Lorde says AI glasses are 'not sexy'

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 14, 2026

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis calls for creation of AI standards body

Artificial intelligence pioneer Demis Hassabis today called for the creation of a standards body focused on regulating frontier models. Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, proposed in a Substack essay that the U.S. should lead the effort. Axios reported that the executive has held talks about the initiative with the White House, European officials and [...] The post Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis calls for creation of AI standards body appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 14, 2026

New York becomes first US state to impose a data center moratorium

New York became the first state in the U.S. to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers today after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing state environmental permits for large facilities for up to a year. Executive Order No. 62 took effect on signing and covers hyperscale data centers that draw 50 [...] The post New York becomes first US state to impose a data center moratorium appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 14, 2026

OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI's ChatGPT."

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 14, 2026

OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit

OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 14, 2026

84% of companies have AI pilots that never reach deployment. Here's what's keeping them locked in limbo.

Most companies don't have an AI ambition problem. If anything, it's the opposite. Give executives a new AI demo, and they'll find 47 potential use cases before lunch. Companies are spinning up pilots by the dozen, and that appetite is only growing. According to AI spending data, 86% of companies plan to increase their investment over the next 12 months. But deployment is a different story. More than a quarter of organizations (28%) have run over 100 AI pilots, yet only 13% have broadly deployed

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 14, 2026

The 8 best data integration tools in 2026

If you've ever had to hunt down an important email across one of your seven inboxes, you know the struggle of having information spread out between a bunch of unconnected systems. Ctrl+F can't save you when you aren't even sure where to start looking. Multiply that by hundreds of employees and dozens of systems, and things get real messy. Data integration tools take siloed data and un-silo it, uniting various data sources into a single master view. This means no more swapping between application

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 14, 2026

OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.

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MIT News AI
Jul 14, 2026

Helping AI models to meet the real world

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 14, 2026

Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta

If you've been waiting to try Apple's revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software's official launch this fall.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 14, 2026

Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out

Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI companies. This latest marketing stunt - which leans into criticism of AI as a way to make Anthropic seem aware of the responsibility it carries - would appear to be more of the same.

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