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Sep 30, 2026 35

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

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Sep 30, 2026 15

Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in comp...

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Sep 30, 2026 23

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

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Sep 30, 2026 30

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

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Sep 30, 2026 28

The AI Tamagotchis are coming

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, t...

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Sep 30, 2026 23

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

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Sep 30, 2026 36

The ugly economics of consumer AI

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

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Sep 30, 2026 23

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial inte...

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Sep 30, 2026 33

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent ...

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Sep 30, 2026 18

DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.

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Sep 30, 2026 28

Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page

"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."

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Sep 30, 2026 28

Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick

Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they neve...