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Reset filtersHone has raised a $60 million seed round at a $285 million valuation to build AI agents that automate business operations, the company told Crypto Briefing.
Reporting: cryptobriefing.com
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CoreWeave has unveiled Forge, a platform designed to accelerate the continuous improvement cycle for AI agents.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Manus, the Chinese developer of AI agents for task automation, has raised over $500 million in a funding round led by private equity firm Boyu Capital.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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European startups raised $25 billion in venture funding in the third quarter of 2026, a 77% year-over-year increase and the strongest quarter in four years.
Reporting: thenextweb.com
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Arena, the startup behind the popular LMArena AI leaderboard, has raised $200 million in a round led by Lightspeed and Khosla.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Paul Christiano, a leading AI safety researcher, has cautioned that humanity might struggle to contain misaligned AI systems.
Reporting: betakit.com
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Automation Anywhere has agreed to acquire conversational voice AI provider Boost.ai from private-equity firm Nordic Capital.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Liquid AI has unveiled an architecture designed to run personal AI agents on-device, prioritizing hardware constraints and user context over cloud-based scalability.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Cohere will open its third Canadian office in Ottawa, the Toronto-based enterprise AI startup announced.
Reporting: betakit.com
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Willow Care, the company behind the AI dictation app Willow Voice, has turned to CoreWeave for its model training needs.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Zach Yadegari, the 19-year-old co-founder of the calorie-tracking app Cal AI, has raised $10 million for a new startup building personal AI agents.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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India’s IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the government will release a consultation paper on AI regulation, aiming to address uncertainties around AI deployment.
Reporting: inc42.com
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TechCrunch has released the full roster of interactive roundtables for Disrupt 2026, its annual startup conference in San Francisco next week.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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DeepSeek has doubled its latest funding target to 100 billion yuan ($14.9 billion), citing strong investor interest ahead of a planned 2027 IPO.
Reporting: msn.com
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Gudea has secured $7 million in seed funding to forecast which online narratives will spread widely and identify the actors shaping them.
Reporting: news.crunchbase.com
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AI startup Inner Sky Labs, known for its Miko-branded companion robots for children, has unveiled a suite of foundation models designed for physical AI applications.
Reporting: inc42.com
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Google Cloud has introduced Gemini agent, an AI assistant designed to operate autonomously across web, mobile, and desktop environments.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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AI startup Manus has raised more than $500 million in its first funding round since Chinese regulators blocked Meta’s planned $2 billion acquisition.
Reporting: barrons.com, msn.com, ijr.com
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Monid has raised $7.7 million in seed funding to build a platform where AI agents can dynamically identify, evaluate, and pay for third-party APIs on a per-call basis.
Reporting: finance.yahoo.com
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UpSmith has secured $10 million in Series A funding to expand its AI platform for home services contractors, including trades like electrical work and plumbing.
Reporting: pulse2.com
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