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Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history
Vantage Data Centers LLC has held early talks about an initial public offering that would value the operator at roughly $100 billion, Reuters reported today, citing people familiar with the discussions.
Google LLC today launched its most capable entry-level artificial intelligence model yet.
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash. The new model is supposed to be Google's most capable workhorse yet for coding and AI agents, and according to the company's own benchmarks, it beats Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra at half the price.
Deepseek has moved its flagship V4-Pro out of the testing phase and released its agent software, Harness v0.1, under the MIT license.
Mindgard Ltd., a leader in artificial intelligence cybersecurity, announced today that it raised $30 million in early funding to scale up its product in response to significant demand across the industry, given an increase in high-impact vulnerabilities.
Data resilience company Rubrik Inc. today said a month of scanning its own code with Anthropic PBC’s Mythos Preview model surfaced so many potential security issues that it rebuilt its review pipeline rather than hire reviewers.
Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today announced the release of its next-generation flagship model, Palmyra X6, designed to deliver frontier-level performance for marketing and revenue teams while keeping costs in check.
Our second in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Sarah Buchner, a "blue-collar worker by background" who set out to find a way to help construction companies manage their projects more efficiently using AI agents.
Anthropic's Fable 5 is considered the most powerful AI model on the market, but U.S.
IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement.
Claude Cowork now runs directly in the side panel of Anthropic's Chrome extension. The article Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to its Chrome extension, adding skills and plugins to the browser appeared first on The Decoder.
Cognition, the company behind AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly in early discussions with investors about a new funding round that could value the company at $40 billion, according to sources cited by Bloomberg.
Lovable, the European AI-powered vibe-coding startup, has confirmed it raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, valuing the company at $13.3 billion, with more than a dozen additional investors participating.
Cobi, an AI decision stack for customer intelligence, has announced a $1m pre-seed funding round.
Intelligence, the company behind AI evaluation tool Design Arena, has raised $7.9 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Conviction, A*, Valkyrie, and others.
Jerry Zhang and Cole Gawin met as freshmen in USC’s startup incubator before building agents at separate companies.…
Corma has raised $60m in seed funding, with the round led by Sequoia Capital and joined by Khosla Ventures and Coatue.
CodeRabbit intends to put part of the funds towards expanding its European workforce and moving into the Asian market. Read more: Nvidia-backed CodeRabbit valued at $1.5bn after $143m funding round
Cognition, the AI startup behind the Devin coding agent, is reportedly in early discussions to raise fresh funding at a valuation of $40 billion or more, according to recent reports.
Joshua Kushner has spent 16 years building Thrive Capital into one of the most closely watched venture firms…
Axle, the AI-native clearinghouse for insurance, has raised $17.5m in Series A funding, led by Base10 Partners, as it looks to expand the number of insurance workflows it automates for carriers and businesses across the real economy.
The legendary Google engineer has been in discussions for a $1 billion funding round in his new AI startup, Discovery Loop.
Midlands-based MatAlytics, a provider of structural physics AI for critical industrial assets, has been awarded £619k in grant funding from Innovate UK.
AI-powered code testing and developer tools startup Blacksmith has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by Peak XV Partners.
Anthropic is reportedly in discussions to acquire AI startup Decart AI for approximately $6 billion, in a potential transaction that would become the Claude maker’s largest known acquisition if completed.
Lightspeed Venture Partners wants more time with its winners. The firm is seeking about $600 million through a…
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.
SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas.
Investor appetite for the burgeoning vibe-coding startup ecosystem has shown few signs of satiation over the past year plus, with Swedish AI upstart Lovable’s Series C injection at a $13.3B valuation the latest evidence of a sector viewed by venture capitalists as one of AI’s most promising business disruptors.
Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year to find the attack paths that artificial intelligence-equipped intruders are most likely to take.
Process intelligence company Skan AI said today it raised $63 million in a Series C round to help further develop a platform that records how enterprise work actually gets done and feeds that record to artificial intelligence agents.
Vibe-coding website company Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation.
Google LLC today expanded its Pixel consumer hardware line with a foldable handset, three smartphones and a smartwatch.
xAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol and trailing only Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.
OpenAI Academy Skills Jams, new education plugins, course build as website, and back-to-school ideas.
Blacksmith Software Inc. today announced it has raised $45 million in new funding for its continuous integration service, which combines code development with cloud-based testing instead of on the developer’s computer.
Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc.
Three data sources tell the same story: Google's Gemini is losing AI market share.
OpenAI brings its ChatGPT desktop app to Linux. The article OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux appeared first on The Decoder.
Brad Lightcap, one of OpenAI’s longest-serving executives, announced he is leaving the company to pursue a new venture.
River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek.
Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across the world who are either deaf or hard of hearing with the launch of sign-language-to-text or SL2T.
Robert Mahari is Anthropic's first "Head of Claude for Legal," responsible for deploying and expanding the Claude AI model across the legal industry. The article Legal startup founder Robert Mahari joins Anthropic to lead Claude's push into law practices appeared first on The Decoder.
June, an AI enterprise platform founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport and co-founders Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat, emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures, with additional backing from Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, and George Kurtz.
Fisent Technologies, a provider of Applied GenAI Process Automation for regulated enterprises, has raised $4.3m in its first priced venture round to expand its enterprise operations and accelerate development of its BizAI platform.
HappyRobot, an AI-native operations platform, has raised $150m in a Series C funding round as it expands its autonomous agent technology across enterprise industries and reaches a post-money valuation of $1.2bn.
Manchester-based cybersecurity startup Cytix has raised a $7m (£5.1m) Series A funding round to scale its change risk management platform and address security vulnerabilities in AI-driven software development.
As agentic AI infrastructure moves from experimentation into production, enterprises are confronting a more complex question than which model to use: how to control the cost, data exposure and infrastructure supporting production AI applications.
CodeRabbit Inc., the creator of a popular tool that automatically reviews artificial intelligence-generated code, is becoming more ambitious after closing on its latest $143 million Series C round of funding.
Nvidia is working on Nemotron 4, a new open-weight model designed to rival the world’s best freely available models. The article Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters, a scale Chinese labs already surpassed appeared first on The Decoder.
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
Most venture firms are still deciding whether the AI boom is a software story or a hardware story.…
Santa Clara-based technology services firm Apexon Inc. today expanded AgentRise, its agentic artificial intelligence platform, with three new components.
Austin-based ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, has raised a $25 million Edison Partners-led Series B, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Venture investors seem to be more upbeat than they have been in years about the future of fitness and wellness. Startup investment in those categories totaled more than $3.6 billion in the first half of this year, putting 2026 on pace to come in about a third higher than 2025.
Three professors are using AI to help students (and themselves) rehearse participation, write, and take creative risks.
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
Mistral is giving customers the option to route AI requests through servers in either Europe or the US, and selling priority queue access during peak traffic.
Nozomi Networks Inc. and Sophos Ltd. today announced a partnership that pushes operational technology telemetry from Nozomi’s Vantage platform into Sophos Fusion, the artificial intelligence-native defense system launched in July.
With Studio 2.0, Suno turns its AI music platform into a full production tool for Premier subscribers.
“We’ve proven AI works, now what?” This common question is being echoed in the halls of numerous enterprise organizations around the globe.
But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?
AI attacks on enterprise systems are picking up speed. The just-released CrowdStrike “2026 Threat Hunting Report” documented that China-nexus adversaries exploited critical vulnerabilities within 24 hours of public proof-of-concept release.
Enterprise voice artificial intelligence company Regal Voice Inc. today unveiled an integration with Five9 Inc.
A new report from threat intelligence company Flashpoint has found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, well past the experimental stage.
Accel has closed a new $550 million India-focused fund, less than two years after its previous India vehicle, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort that also included U.S.
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
Google focuses more on AI and curated experiences than spec upgrades in 2026.
A public AI tool found the dangerous Zoom flaw in under 20 prompts.
Chinese AI agent startup Manus is returning to independent operations, marking a concrete break from Meta months after Chinese regulators forced the US tech group to unwind its acquisition of the company.
Kevin Weil, the former chief product officer of OpenAI, is in discussions to raise a round of funding for a new AI science startup.
Data center server maker Super Micro Computer Inc. seems to be back in Wall Street’s good graces after delivering an impressive earnings beat in its fourth quarter reported today.
Shares of the artificial intelligence data center firm CoreWeave Inc. jumped more than 14% in extended trading today after it delivered solid financial results that easily beat Wall Street’s projections.
River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised $1.1 billion in early-stage funding.
Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark.
August 11, 2026: Jaipur-based AI startup Vardan.ai has been selected as one of the winners of the MongoDB Bengaluru Meets the Bay Challenge 2026,… The post Vardan.ai’s AI Workforce Platform Gets Silicon Valley Opportunity Through MongoDB Founder Programme appeared first on India Technology News.
AI startups now lead the UK venture scene, attracting about 74% of the $18.3 billion invested in UK…