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Reset filtersVinod Khosla has placed an early marker on Wajo, the AI agent startup founded by a former DeepMind engineer. TechCrunch reports that Wajo’s “Fo” agent can delegate tasks to humans, a design Khosla…
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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ElevenLabs has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Karnataka government to provide voice AI services, focusing on safety frameworks, accessibility for people with speaking disabilities,…
Reporting: yourstory.com
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AI research startup FYDY is in advanced talks to raise $12 million in its first funding round, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst at a $50 million valuation, Inc42 reported.
Reporting: inc42.com
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Mistral has introduced its largest AI model to date, which the company says demonstrates stronger performance than other open-weight models from the U.S. or Europe. The announcement follows a recent…
Reporting: tech.eu
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TechCrunch has released the full breakout session agenda for Disrupt 2026, its annual startup conference taking place October 13-15 in San Francisco.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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The final amount is still being negotiated, but this would be a significant jump from the $12 billion target Bloomberg reported earlier in October.
Reporting: msn.com
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Anaconda has added new features to its enterprise AI platform, including tools for organizing groups of AI agents, testing their security, and moving applications into production. These updates come…
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Dell Technologies has expanded its AI Data Platform with a semantic layer and knowledge graph, designed to give AI agents trusted context from unstructured enterprise data. The update also…
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Paris-based AI startup Mistral has released a new flagship model, aiming to close the performance gap with competitors like Google and TypeSafe AI. The move follows its $4 billion funding round in…
Reporting: sifted.eu
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India has joined the top 10 emerging markets for AI readiness, with private investment in the sector tripling, according to a World Bank report. The country’s large technical workforce, established…
Reporting: yourstory.com
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Inc42 hosted its first CTO Summit 2026 on September 30 at the JW Marriott in Bengaluru, with over 200 attendees.
Reporting: inc42.com
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DeepSeek is set to raise at least 80 billion yuan ($12 billion) in a funding round led by Tencent and battery maker CATL, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. If completed, the round would rank among the…
Reporting: msn.com
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Crunchbase data reveals that some of the fastest-growing AI startups are now serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to plug product gaps, enter new markets, or absorb specialized teams. While…
Reporting: news.crunchbase.com
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Moonshot AI plans to go public in Hong Kong in early 2027 after reaching a $50 billion valuation, according to a report by Yahoo Finance. The Beijing-based startup, which developed the Kimi large…
Reporting: finance.yahoo.com
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According to Inc42, the Wikimedia Foundation has identified activity from OpenAI’s AI agents that may have involved scraping Wikipedia content. The agents in question are reportedly linked to…
Reporting: inc42.com
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Comparables.ai, an AI platform that generates private and public market intelligence for dealmakers, has raised $6 million in seed funding. The round was first reported by tech.eu.
Reporting: tech.eu
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DeepSeek is set to raise at least 80 billion yuan ($12 billion) in a funding round led by Tencent and battery maker CATL, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The round, if completed, would rank among the…
Reporting: finance.yahoo.com
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The UK has launched a formal inquiry into whether training frontier AI models on publicly available data violates existing privacy laws. The probe, first reported by Sifted, could reshape how…
Reporting: sifted.eu
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Reflection AI has reportedly introduced Beam, an open-source large language model said to contain 501 billion parameters—potentially the largest such model made public. The announcement follows…
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Instinct, the consumer AI assistant startup, has closed a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue. The round, announced September 28,…
Reporting: msn.com
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