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Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI coding

Google wants its AI to code better. It may have found a shortcut, and it runs through a startup of about 35 people. The company is in talks with Mechanize, a San Francisco startup that trains AI agents to write software, Business Insider reported. The deal would be worth more than $1.5 billion, four people […]

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A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million. […]

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Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le, who co-founded Google Brain, and Oriol Vinyals, whose X bio […]

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Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets

Moove has quietly become one of the more valuable names in autonomous mobility. The company has raised $250m in a Series C round that values it at $2.1bn, a marker of how far it has travelled from its origins. The backing is heavyweight. The round was led by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala, with Toyota’s growth fund […]

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How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide

For founders building from idea to MVP to scale, Chop Dawg makes the case for choosing a technical partner with process, staying power, and long-term accountability. Start With the Decision That Shapes the Product For a startup founder, the first version of an app is rarely just a first version. It is the test of […]

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Cracken opens self-serve access to its AI-powered offensive cybersecurity platform

Cracken, a San Francisco-based applied AI lab focused on offensive cybersecurity, has launched a self-serve version of its proactive security platform. Enterprise security teams and individual practitioners can now create an account and start testing their own organisations against real attack paths without a procurement cycle or sales call. It is the first time the […]

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Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows

Deel, the global HR and payroll platform, has acquired Clarity, a Tel Aviv-based AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies identities in real time. The deal, reportedly worth between $45 million and $50 million in a mix of cash and shares, is Deel’s 15th acquisition and its first in Israel. The announcement landed alongside […]

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Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days

Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup building grid-scale iron-air batteries, has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale a technology that can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours. The round was led by Plural and HV, with participation from Positron Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to $61 million. The batteries work […]

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EVgo is putting 500 new fast chargers in the parking lots of American shopping centres

EVgo is expanding its partnership with Brixmor Property Group to install more than 500 new DC fast charging stalls in the parking lots of shopping centres across the United States. The deal will bring EVgo’s 350 kW chargers to at least 90 Brixmor properties, covering more than a quarter of the real estate developer’s portfolio. […]

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Ex-Nubank team raises $85m for Decade, an AI wealth adviser promising “a generation of millionaires”

Two former Nubank executives have raised $85m to build an AI wealth adviser in Brazil. Their backers call it the largest seed round in Latin American history. The startup, Decade, came out of stealth on Tuesday with money from Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion, and a striking promise: to create “a new generation of millionaires.” The […]

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