114 updates tagged product.
Crusoe closed the initial tranche of a $3.9 billion Series F on Sept 17, 2026 at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Atreides, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity, with N…
Shanghai-based Anew Labs announced about $290M in inaugural external financing on September 16, 2026, from HSG, IDG Capital, Hillhouse, and 5Y Capital. Spun out of ByteDance, which…
On September 16, 2026, Anthropic folded its Cowork agent and Claude chat into a single 'one Claude' experience where the model picks the tool automatically, and launched Claude Doc…
AI software-engineering startup Factory raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation on Sept 16, 2026, roughly tripling the $1.5B valuation from its $150M Series C five months ear…
Arcee AI announced a $150M+ Series B on Sept 16, 2026 valuing it above $1 billion, led by Vista Equity, Cambium and Emergence with Hitachi, Wipro and M12. It built its Trinity mode…
Evvy, a precision-medicine company offering vaginal microbiome testing, AI-powered diagnostics and personalized care for women's health, raised a $40M Series B on September 16, 202…
Footprint, an AI-native compliance and identity platform offering KYC, KYB, AML and secure data vaulting for financial institutions, raised a $25M Series B on September 16, 2026 le…
On September 16, 2026, Google launched early access to Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets any MCP-capable agent (Antigravity, Claude, and others) monitor devices,…
On September 15, 2026 Apple opened the English public beta of its rebuilt Siri, powered by custom models built with Google Gemini and split between on-device and Apple's Private Cl…
On September 15, 2026 Perplexity launched a local AI agent in its Windows app for Nvidia GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs with at least 24GB of VRAM. The model, agent harness, orchestr…
Tandem Health raised EUR 86.49 million (about $100 million) in a Series B led by the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, announced September 14, 2026. The startup is expanding from AI…
Chift raised a EUR 10.5 million Series A led by BlackFin Capital Partners, announced September 14, 2026. Its unified API connects business software to more than 120 financial syste…
On September 14, 2026, durable-execution platform Temporal announced a $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation, co-led by Lightspeed with Wellington, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and…
On September 11, 2026 Salesforce launched seven named Agentforce agents (Casey, Paige, Carter, Hunter, Marshall, Piper and Fin) preconfigured for jobs across service, sales, commer…
First Table, the discount off-peak restaurant booking platform now live in 22 Australian cities, raised A$10 million on 11 September 2026. Backers included existing investors Alter…
Mach Industries raised a $600 million Series C led by Ribbit Capital and Sequoia Capital, reported in Crunchbase's week-ending September 11, 2026 roundup. The company builds defens…
Motive, a fleet management and logistics operations platform, raised $1.3 billion in private-equity growth financing led by General Catalyst, per Crunchbase's week-ending September…
On September 10, 2026 Anthropic shipped an 'auto' permission policy for Claude Managed Agents that lets the server evaluate each agent or MCP tool call and run it, deny it, or paus…
Positron AI announced $875 million on September 10, 2026, split into a $375 million Series C and a Series C-1 of up to $500 million, at a roughly $5 billion valuation. The round, b…
DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash on September 10, 2026, priced at $0.15 per million uncached input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens off-peak (double during 01:00-04:00 and 06…
Arlequin AI closed a EUR 28 million Series A on September 10, 2026, co-led by redalpine and OTB Ventures with Bpifrance's Defence Innovation Fund and Xavier Niel joining. Its topol…
Inspiren announced a $70 million Series C on September 10, 2026, with NewView Capital and Insight Partners among the backers. Its platform applies AI to operations inside senior-li…
India-based Graph AI raised a $13.3 million post-seed round on September 10, 2026, from Insight Partners and Bessemer. Its software automates pharmaceutical safety and adverse-even…
Australian lab Metacognition AI announced a roughly $10 million round on September 10, 2026, led by CSIRO-backed VC Main Sequence. It is building an operating-system layer that sit…
Washington, DC-based Wyre AI raised $5 million on September 10, 2026, led by Ironspring Ventures with DPR Construction's WND Ventures and Virginia's VIPC. Its platform reads drawin…
On September 10, 2026 Bending Spoons entered a definitive agreement to acquire 100 percent of Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion (about EUR 1.7 billion), an all-cash dea…
Stanford-founded Buildcheck raised a $12 million Series A led by Telescope Partners, with DPR Construction's venture arm WND Ventures joining, bringing total funding to $18 million…
On September 9, 2026 Tokyo-based Algomatic Dynamics announced a 5 billion yen (about $34M) first financing to build robotics and physical AI, including motion-data collection and d…
Perry Weather closed a $110 million Series C on September 9, 2026, led by Silversmith Capital and Arthur Ventures. The company sells weather monitoring and safety-operations softwa…
Lightfield closed a $47M Series A led by a16z on September 9, 2026, with Greylock, Lightspeed and Coatue joining. The AI native CRM, a pivot from presentation startup Tome, reports…
France's Mistral AI closed a 3 billion euro (about $3.5B) Series D led by Samsung Electronics on September 8, 2026, with co-leads EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity, lifting…
The open-source autonomous coding agent OpenHands reached its 1.0 release on September 8, 2026, adding Docker sandboxing, built-in security policies, resource limits and a plugin s…
On September 8, 2026 San Francisco-based Cognition AI closed a $2 billion Series E at a $48 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst an…
Meta debuted Muse on September 8, 2026, a personal AI agent for users 18+ that opens a browser, fills forms and executes multi step tasks like booking travel or drafting a business…
On September 8, 2026 OpenAI released GPT Image 2.5, exposing two developer APIs: Flare, its fastest model generating high-quality images at two to four times the speed of GPT-Image…
Announced September 4, 2026, Anthropic says Claude ran largely autonomously for 11 days to produce the first end-to-end, computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean. Th…
Gimlet Labs closed a $300 million Series B on Sept 4, 2026 at a $3 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz with Arm, Samsung Ventures, and Microsoft's M12 among backers, brin…
In its September 4, 2026 changelog, GitHub added parallel agent sessions to the Copilot app, letting multiple AI tasks run independently in separate Git worktrees, and introduced a…
On September 4, 2026, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the 'AI SME Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026-2028),' targeting over 10,000 new sci-te…
GitHub launched Project HydraFusion as a research preview in the Copilot CLI on September 4, 2026, dynamically orchestrating multiple AI models and picking one of three execution p…
Nvidia announced on Sept 3, 2026 a definitive deal to acquire Hugging Face for roughly $12.93 billion, pledging to keep it an open platform where Nvidia compute is not required. Hu…
Google DeepMind and Google Research launched WeatherNext 3 on September 3, 2026, generating 15-day probabilistic forecasts initialized hourly at up to 5km resolution across 64 ense…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra (API id gpt-6-astra) on Sept 3, 2026, priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, with cached input at $1. It carries an ~1.1M-to…
On September 3, 2026 Google rolled out Gmail Live, Docs Live and Keep Live, letting users query their inbox, draft documents (pulling from Gmail, Drive, Chat and the web) and take…
Cradlewise, based in San Francisco and Pune, announced a $12M Series A on Sept 3, 2026 led by 3one4 Capital and Prudent Investment Management. Its connected crib uses AI-based slee…
Seattle stealth startup Resect AI announced a $25M seed/Series A round on Sept 3, 2026 from undisclosed investors. The company is building an 'AI accountability layer' that detects…
Bengaluru-based Ultrahuman raised $70 million ($65M equity, $5M debt) on Sept 3, 2026 at a $365 million valuation, led by Qualcomm Ventures with Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume Ventures…
Brussels-based Backbone announced a EUR 4 million pre-seed on Sept 3, 2026, backed by Pitchdrive, PROfounders Capital, Passion Capital, 100IN, Agristo, and Darta. The platform cons…
On September 2, 2026 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 (broadly available) and Mythos 5.1 (restricted to vetted organizations), citing about 45% lower costs for agentic workloads…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on Sept 2, 2026 with a 1,048,576-token context window, priced at $0.75 input and $3.75 output per million tokens through Dec 31, 2026. The rate is…
On September 2, 2026 Perplexity launched a hybrid-compute capability for its Computer agent that divides a single AI task between cloud models and models running locally on Apple s…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on Sept 2, 2026 at $1.25 input and $4.25 output per million tokens with a 1,048,576-token context window, claiming roughly 20% fewer tool calls and 25%…
In early September 2026, the three labs restricted their most cyber-capable models to trusted-defender programs: Google's Fairwind (Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, over 650 partners includ…
Wonderful raised a $550 million Series C led by Insight Partners at a $5 billion valuation, more than doubling its value in under six months. Its AI operating system coordinates ag…
John Ternus, 50, officially became Apple CEO on Sept 1, 2026, ending Tim Cook's roughly 15-year run; Cook becomes executive chairman focused on policy and board matters. Ternus, wh…
On 1 September 2026 VAST, developer of Tripo AI, announced roughly 3 billion yuan (~$446 million) across Series B and Series B+ rounds led by MPCi, with backers including Perfect W…
On 1 September 2026 SciFin announced a $44 million seed round led by Altimeter and Madrona for an enterprise AI context layer that connects customer and forecasting data so AI syst…
Austin-based Light raised a $46 million Series A on Sept 1, 2026, led by Matrix with Activate Capital, Spark Capital, Mischief, Gigascale, MCJ, and BoxGroup. Light applies an embed…
On August 31, 2026 DeepSeek published V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a roughly 305B-parameter experimental multimodal model, on Hugging Face under the permissive MIT license. It shows substa…
On August 31, 2026 the European Commission designated OpenAI's ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act (alongside Reddit and Roblox as VLOPs), c…
Scan.com closed $220M on August 31, 2026: a $90M Series C equity round led by Noteus Partners plus $130M in debt facilities from VerisFi Capital and Atempo Growth. Revenue doubled…
On Aug 28, 2026 Huawei Cloud moved CodeArts Agent from public beta to general availability across Asia Pacific, launching commercially in Singapore. The platform orchestrates 16 sp…
On August 28, 2026 Tencent released and open-sourced its Hunyuan Hy4 preview: a 770B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model activating 49B parameters per token, with a 1-million-token…
On Aug 28, 2026, NVIDIA released TensorRT Model Connect, an open collection of reference implementations that turns a Hugging Face or local checkpoint into native C++ inference wit…
On Aug 28, 2026, Anthropic made Claude for Teachers available to US K-12 schools and districts as a free Enterprise offering with SSO, role-based controls, and standards-aligned te…
On Aug 28, 2026 Hugging Face launched Microduck, a $399 open-source bipedal robot with 15 motors, a camera and lidar, targeting first deliveries before Christmas in North America a…
Lone Palm Labs, maker of friend-focused photo app Retro, raised more than $21M in Series A on Aug 28, 2026, led by Field Ventures (Dylan Field) and Thrive Capital. Built by ex-Inst…
On Aug 27, 2026 CivilGrid raised a $26M Series A led by Spark Capital. The company builds underground-utility mapping and infrastructure-planning software, part of an investor tilt…
On Aug 27, 2026 Agentrys announced $24.5M in combined seed and pre-seed funding, led by Etna Capital with MediaTek participating, to build AI agents for semiconductor verification…
On Aug 27, 2026 Onos Health announced a $17M Series A led by Costanoa Ventures to build behavioral-health AI for clinical intelligence and utilization analysis. It reflects sustain…
On Aug 27, 2026 Instinct announced a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark to build a consumer AI assistant that automates tasks across apps and devices. The size o…
Paris-based Lupin Dental raised a 15 million euro Series A around Aug 27-28, 2026, led by Fynveur (10 million euro) with existing shareholders, private investors and Bpifrance loan…
On Aug 26, 2026 Transfyr launched with $25M in seed funding led by General Catalyst, with Lux Capital, Breakout Ventures and others. Founded by ex-Ginkgo Bioworks AI lead Anna Mari…
On Aug 26, 2026 China's Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter (18B active) mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context and native image/video input, under an MIT licen…
On Aug 26, 2026 IBM released Granite 4.2, a family of open models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes with a 128,000-token context window under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. Th…
OpenAI announced first results for Jalapeno, its in-house AI inference ASIC co-developed with Broadcom, claiming 1.5x-1.9x higher throughput per kilowatt and 1.7x-3.6x lower end-to…
On Aug 26, 2026 Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, making Claude a default reasoning model across Agentforce, Slack and developer tools. It ships with a 'Salesforce in…
Accelerated Understanding, founded by researchers who declined a Bezos-backed Project Prometheus offer (~35% stake and $2B+ committed), unveiled a physics-first AI model on Aug 25,…
Apple opened pre-orders on Aug 25, 2026 for a new Mac Mini with the 2nm M6 chip starting at $899 (16GB/256GB), plus an M5 Pro option at $1,699, shipping Sept 22. Apple highlights a…
Stability AI, maker of Stable Diffusion, raised $76M in fresh funding announced Aug 25, 2026, with participation from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, a…
On August 24, 2026 Alibaba unveiled Wan3.0, an AI video model that generates roughly 30-second videos directly from documents and spreadsheets. Alibaba paired the launch with a rep…
Arintra raised a $25 million Series B announced the week of Aug 24-26, 2026, led by Define Ventures with Peak XV Partners and Y Combinator, bringing total funding to $51 million. I…
Embedd raised a $2.7M pre-seed led by Seedcamp, announced Aug 24, 2026, to build developer infrastructure that reduces the software-integration work of supporting different chip pl…
In an official update dated August 11, 2026, MeitY confirmed the Rs 10,372 crore IndiaAI Mission has onboarded more than 38,000 GPUs for its common compute facility - over three ti…
From 2 August 2026 the EU Commission's AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act's transparency duties: chatbots must disclose they are AI, deepfakes and AI-gen…
California's SB 942 became operative Aug 2, 2026, requiring large generative-AI providers (over 1 million monthly users) to offer a free AI-detection tool and attach both visible a…
Since August 2, 2026, the European Commission's supervision and enforcement powers over general-purpose AI (GPAI) model providers under the EU AI Act are in force, backed by the AI…
The AI Conference 2026 takes place Sept 29-Oct 1 at Pier 48 in San Francisco, gathering 5,500+ builders, researchers and leaders across tracks on agentic AI, LLMs, infrastructure a…
FinovateFall runs Sept 9-11, 2026 at the New York Marriott Marquis, showcasing seven-minute live product demonstrations across fintech, payments, lending, and banking-tech sectors.…
The vendor-neutral AI Conference 2026 runs September 29–October 1 at Pier 48 in San Francisco's Mission Rock, expecting 5,500+ builders and 120+ speakers across five tracks (AGI, L…
The Australian Government's Industry Growth Program, run by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, offers matched grants of $50k to $250k for early stage commercialisat…
From 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act's transparency obligations (Article 50) are enforced and apply directly in Sweden: businesses must tell users when they are interacting with a chat…
Via Instrução Normativa BCB nº 766, the Banco Central rolls out Pix security changes in two phases: layered fund tracing plus new infraction-notification and value-recovery procedu…
In Announcement No. 70 of 2026, effective on its July 29, 2026 publication date, China's National Medical Products Administration lets brands launching first (or simultaneously) in…
On July 27, 2026, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) issued the 'Xiao-Kuai-Qing-Zhun' (小快轻准) Digital Products and Services Cultivation Guide (2026 Ed…
On July 16, 2026, China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) and four other agencies enacted the country's first dedicated rules for AI companion services. Providers must show a usage…
On 14 July 2026, PM Anthony Albanese announced a new Office of AI inside the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to coordinate 'Australian standards' for AI and end the go…
The European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC UK) at Space Park Leicester reopened applications, with the next deadline at 12:00 on 28 August 2026. Selected UK star…
On July 1, 2026, the FTC sought public comment on a proposed policy statement warning that companies which distort their AI systems' outputs to serve undisclosed goals may be decei…
NSF's current SBIR/STTR solicitation (NSF 26-510) funds deep technologies advancing US competitiveness and security, with invited Phase I and Fast-Track full proposals due November…
Innovate UK's UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D Round 3 opened on 1 July 2026 and closes at 11:00am on 3 September 2026, sharing up to GBP 3 million (matched by at least CHF 3 milli…
MAS announced on 29 June 2026 the call for its 2026 Global FinTech Hackcelerator (part of Singapore FinTech Festival), inviting AI proposals on three problem statements: credit/fra…
On 25-26 June 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore established the Future of Finance Institute (FFI) to move AI and tokenisation beyond pilots across Singapore's financial sec…
On June 26, 2026, the NPC Standing Committee passed China's revised Trademark Law, taking effect January 1, 2027. It bars applications lacking genuine intent to use, penalizes bad-…
China's National People's Congress adopted the revised Trademark Law on June 26, 2026, effective January 1, 2027. It cracks down on bad-faith and squatting filings: applications fi…
From 19 June 2026, Swedish law requires any trader concluding distance contracts with consumers via a website or app to provide a clear, easily accessible "withdrawal button" that…
Vinnova's 'Test & Demo for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises 2026' call opened 2 June 2026 and closes 8 September 2026 at 14:00. It funds up to 70% of eligible costs to a maximum…
Google Cloud launched the equity-free Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia, a three-month program for 25 seed-to-Series B AI startups from Singapore and five other ASEAN…
On 25 May 2026, Google Cloud launched an AI Startup Innovation Corridor linking Southeast Asia to Silicon Valley through Singapore, backed by EnterpriseSG and regional partners. Th…
On 25 May 2026, Google Cloud and Enterprise Singapore (with government partners in Indonesia and Vietnam) launched a Southeast Asia-to-Silicon Valley AI startup corridor routed thr…
On 25 May 2026 Google Cloud, with Enterprise Singapore, launched the Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia, an equity-free three-month program for an inaugural cohort of…
Gov. Polis signed SB 189 on May 14, 2026, pushing the Colorado AI Act's effective date from June 30, 2026 to January 1, 2027 and significantly narrowing its duties on developers an…
Bill C-15 received Royal Assent on March 26, 2026, doubling the SR&ED enhanced expenditure limit from $3 million to $6 million, which raises the maximum 35% refundable R&D tax cred…
TRAIGA (HB 149), effective January 1, 2026, amends the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act with AI-specific duties and prohibits AI systems used for behavioral manipulation, unlawf…