Reco banks $55M to map the agents enterprises lost track of
The security startup found 21,000 unknown AI agents at a single Fortune 100 customer, and investors just backed its plan…
AMD bets $8.2B on Fei-Fei Li’s lab to build chips for robots
AMD is buying World Labs, the physical AI lab Fei-Fei Li founded, to close the gap with Nvidia on chips…
Why China is racing to build the world’s data centers
Prefabricated construction is letting Chinese builders chase the American AI data center boom.
a16z and TypeSafe ask where all the automation went
Ben Horowitz and Martin Casado press TypeSafe's founder on why capable AI has not reshaped software.
Higgsfield founder explains what AI models really cost
Alex Mashrabov walks through taking Higgsfield to $1B in ARR and the model bills that came with it.
AppDirect buys Soul Machines to give software a face
The business marketplace adds lifelike AI avatars to move customers past text-based interfaces.
Modulate lands $25M to decode intent inside voice calls
The Boston startup sells emotion, deepfake and scam detection to companies running voice agents.
ElevenLabs v4 clones a voice from ten seconds of audio
The speech startup's new models add expression control and 90 languages as competition in voice intensifies.
Riyadh’s erad lands $22M to lend to Gulf small businesses
The Saudi fintech writes working-capital loans for companies banks keep turning away.
Lisbon’s Humanos scores agent risk so insurers can price it
A Portuguese seed round backs a credit-score idea for autonomous software.
