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  1. Pathway Secures $30M Seed at $500M Valuation to Scale BDH Post-Transformer Architecture

    AI research company Pathway has secured additional capital at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed funding to $30 million. The company is developing a post-Transformer architecture dubbed Baby Dragon Hatchling (BDH) designed to combine continuous in-weights adaptation, long-horizon reasoning, and memory within neural representations without relying on expanding KV caches or external retrieval pipelines. The BDH Post-Transformer Architecture Standard Transformer architectures suff

    AI
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  2. Temporal in Talks to Raise $500M at $12B+ Valuation as Agent Orchestration Surges

    Developer infrastructure platform Temporal Technologies is in discussions to raise approximately $500 million in a new funding round that would value the company at over $12 billion pre-money, according to reports from Bloomberg. The financing represents a rapid increase in valuation from its $5 billion Series D round earlier this year, driven by accelerating adoption of durable execution runtimes for multi-step AI agents. The Shift Toward Durable Execution Runtimes While foundational model d

    AI
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  3. AI Accounting Startup Rillet Reaches $1B Valuation with $100M Series C

    AI-native accounting and ERP startup Rillet has secured $100 million in a Series C funding round at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding past $200 million within eighteen months of launch. The round was led by ICONIQ, with continued participation from existing institutional investors Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Oak HC/FT. Several new venture firms also joined the syndicate, including Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, FirstMark, Scale Venture Partners, a

    Rillet
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  4. OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads Across 31 European Countries

    OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads into 31 European countries, marking its largest commercial rollout to date following a six-month pilot in the United States and eight subsequent markets. The European expansion includes major markets such as Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Austria. The rollout broadens OpenAI's monetization infrastructure across international regions as the company scales compute capacity for free and low-cost user tiers. Tier Segmen

    OpenAI
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  5. Smack Technologies Raises $61M Series B to Scale Tactical Edge AI for the Joint Force

    Austin-based defense AI startup Smack Technologies has raised $61 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate deployment of its tactical edge decision systems across the U.S. military. The round was co-led by Costanoa Ventures and First In, with participation from Point72 Ventures, Geodesic Capital, Nomi Capital, Felicis, Sapphire Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Fortitude Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and Palumni VC. The financing brings Smack's total capital raised to over $90 million and follo

    Defense AI
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  7. Chinese Humanoid Robot Maker Unitree Surges 629% in $904M Shanghai IPO Debut

    Chinese humanoid and quadruped robotics manufacturer Unitree Robotics made its public debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, with shares surging 629% in early morning trading. The listing marks the first pure-play embodied artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics IPO on China's mainland A-share exchange. Unitree priced its initial public offering at 150.80 yuan ($22.36) per share, issuing 40.4 million shares to raise approximately $904 million (4.2

    Robotics
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  8. Anthropic Prepares Dual-Class Super-Voting Shares for Co-Founders Ahead of Planned IPO

    Anthropic is preparing to implement a dual-class share structure that grants super-voting equity to its co-founders ahead of a planned initial public offering, according to a report from The Information. The mechanism is designed to concentrate long-term operational voting control with executive leadership and insulate decision-making from external market and investor pressures. The structure comes as the maker of the Claude model family scales enterprise commercialization, with annual revenue

    Anthropic
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  9. Harvey Introduces Tenet, Its First In-House Legal LLM Trained on Moonshot's Kimi K3

    Legal AI startup Harvey has announced Harvey Tenet, its first proprietary, in-house foundation model tailored for legal workflows. The release marks a strategic shift for the $11 billion legal tech company, which has historically relied on API access to third-party frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Tenet is post-trained on top of Kimi K3, an open-weights model released in July 2026 by Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI. The initiative is part of a broader platform update titled Harvey II, whic

    AI
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  10. DOJ Investigates Andreessen Horowitz over Competing Board Seats in AI Data Startups

    The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an antitrust investigation into venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), examining whether the firm violated federal competition laws by placing partners on the boards of direct competitors in the enterprise AI and data infrastructure market. The investigation, reported by Bloomberg, centers on board representation at Databricks and Fivetran. Both companies provide data ingestion, management, and pipeline infrastructure essential

    Policy
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  11. Etched in Talks to Raise $700M Led by Jane Street at $21B Valuation

    AI inference chip startup Etched is in negotiations to raise $700 million in a new financing round led by existing investor Jane Street, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. The proposed financing would value the San Jose-based semiconductor company at approximately $21 billion. The planned round follows a $300 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital that valued the startup at $10.3 billion, effectively doubling its valuation within weeks amid intensifying enterprise demand for

    Hardware
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  12. LG Partners with Nvidia on 10,000-Square-Meter Robot Data Factory Targeting 100,000 Training Hours

    LG Electronics hosted senior Nvidia leadership at its Yangjae R&D Campus in Seoul on August 18, 2026, advancing a joint initiative to build physical AI training pipelines and target 100,000 hours of embodied robotics data by the end of the year. The site review took place five days after LG Group and Nvidia signed a strategic memorandum of understanding at Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara on August 13. The accelerated timeline reflects LG's effort to convert its industrial manufacturing infra

    Robotics
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  13. Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Tops $65 Billion Ahead of Planned Public Listing

    Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reached approximately $65 billion at the end of July 2026, according to reporting by Bloomberg on August 17, with corroborating details reported by Reuters and Axios. The figure marks an $18 billion expansion over two months from the $47 billion run rate reported during Anthropic's Series H financing in late May, and up from $9 billion at the close of 2025. The acceleration highlights deepening enterprise adoption of Claude across corporate workflows, wit

    AI
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  14. Higgsfield AI Raises $400M at $5.4B Valuation, Quadrupling in Seven Months

    AI video generation startup Higgsfield has raised $400 million in a Series B round that values the company at $5.4 billion, up from $1.3 billion in January. The round was led by DST Global with participation from Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel Capital, and others. The 4x valuation jump in seven months signals intense investor appetite for the AI video layer that could become the foundation for robotics, world models, and the next generation of content creation. What Higgsfield Does Hig

    AI Video
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  15. An AI Agent Just Fired a Human Employee

    An AI agent running a San Francisco retail store has fired its first human worker, marking what researchers call a watershed moment for AI's role in the economy. The experiment Since April 2026, an AI agent named Luna has managed Andon Market, a physical retail store in San Francisco operated by Andon Labs. Luna handles everything a store manager does: posting job listings, conducting phone interviews, sending offer emails, setting schedules, approving time off, and negotiating salaries. The

    AI
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  16. Anthropic Investors Eye a $2 Trillion IPO

    Anthropic is preparing for a stock market debut that could value the five-year-old maker of Claude at more than two trillion dollars, according to investors cited by the Financial Times. Six investors in the company told the FT that rapidly rising revenue could support a valuation above two trillion dollars in a potential October listing, with some scenarios stretching toward three trillion. That would eclipse SpaceX and rank as the largest initial public offering on record. From a fraction o

    AI
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  17. Anthropic posts first-ever quarterly profit as revenue tops $11.5 billion

    Anthropic has reported its first profitable quarter, with second-quarter revenue exceeding $11.5 billion — a 14-fold increase from $787 million a year earlier and more than double the $4.73 billion recorded in Q1 2026, according to documents seen by Bloomberg and reported by Reuters and The Decoder. The company posted positive adjusted operating income in Q2, a milestone no other leading AI lab has publicly reached. The figures are preliminary and could be revised; Anthropic declined to comment

    AI
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  18. Anthropic in talks to buy Decart for $6 billion, targeting compute efficiency

    Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The deal would be Anthropic's largest known acquisition and signals a strategic push to lower the cost of running its models at scale. Decart builds software that makes GPU compute more efficient — reducing the cost of training and operating AI models by helping chips work harder. For Anthropic, which just reported preliminary Q2 revenue above $11.5 b

    AI
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  19. French startup Kog says smarter software can pull 30x faster inference out of stock GPUs

    The race for faster AI inference has pushed labs toward custom silicon, but a French startup argues the cheapest speedup is already sitting in servers companies bought. Kog says it can reach roughly thirty times faster LLM inference on standard data-center GPUs using software alone. Kog demonstrated three thousand tokens per second per request on AMD MI300X and NVIDIA H200 GPUs in May, running a small two-billion-parameter model it has since open-sourced as Laneformer 2B. Chief executive Gael D

    AI
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  20. Chinese AI labs dominate text-to-video: 9 of top 10 models are Chinese

    Outside of Alphabet's Google, nine of the world's top ten text-to-video models are now Chinese, according to the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The ranking, based on blind human evaluation of generated clips, places Google's Gemini Omni Flash at number one. Every slot from two through ten belongs to a Chinese lab. The Chinese contingent includes: MiniMax — H3 ByteDance — Seedance 2.0 Alibaba — Wan (two builds), HappyHorse (two builds, ~15B parameters, open weight) Kuaishou — Kling (two bu

    AI
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