AISep 23, 2026TechCrunch
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema’s $77M Series B bets that multi-agent “AI employees” can wrap SaaS today and replace chunks of it tomorrow — services margins included.
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AISep 22, 2026The Verge
Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta
a16z’s free SF “academy” skips degrees and homework for co-ops at OpenAI, Meta, Palantir and friends — a talent pipe dressed as school.
AISep 15, 2026TechCrunch
Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
AIUC raised a $40M Series A to sell SOC-2-style audits for AI agents — 5,000 tests, ~100-page reports — as enterprises freeze deals over unguaranteeable behavior.
AISep 9, 2026TechCrunch
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed $125 million Series C term sheet at a $1.5 billion valuation as Salesforce acquisition talks reportedly heated up.
AISep 8, 2026OpenAI
Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
OpenAI Group PBC is putting up to $5 million—grants to $1 million each—behind independent studies of generative AI’s effects on teens 13–17, with applications due October 6, 2026.
AISep 4, 2026TechCrunch
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
A two-year-old British GPU landlord is stacking convertible notes and Nvidia cash ahead of a possible IPO this month, selling contracted capacity as if it were booked revenue.
AIAug 24, 2026NVIDIA Blog
Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents
NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin efficiency story uses agent-shaped workloads, but its largest comparison is still an internal, pending-review result.
AIJan 22, 2026VentureBeat
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway’s $100 million Series B funds a vertically integrated cloud pitch built around deployment speed and agent-callable infrastructure.