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A $10 billion AI startup is finding out how quickly people will hand over their wallets
Nearly 40% of users of Instinct, the viral AI personal assistant, connect their personal credit cards to the service within three weeks of using it, said its founder, Noah Shinn. Shinn shared the figure on Tuesday at Fireworks AI's Forge conference…
These college students launched a legal tech startup. It's business first, school second.
When Raphael Lim, 23, and Jamison Teng, 24, met in 2022, their time together was filled with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training and playing video games. But now, their hangouts look different as they work through the twists and turns of running a…
Top Anthropic product leader Cat Wu, one of the faces of Claude Code, has left the startup
Cat Wu, a top product manager at Anthropic and one of a small group behind the launch of its blockbuster tool Claude Code, left the company on Friday. Wu announced her departure on Tuesday afternoon on X, thanking the Claude Code team and its users…
Exclusive | AI Security Startup Sentra Raises $150 Million to Police Autonomous Agents
Sentra, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies keep artificial-intelligence agents under control, has raised $150 million to meet booming demand for AI and data security. The Series C round, which lifts Sentra's market valuation to more than…
Europe to invest €525 million in chip startups to catch up with US and China
BRUSSELS, Nov 4 (Reuters) – The European Union will invest €525 million ($590 million) in chip startups to help them scale up faster, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said on Wednesday, part of a push to help Europe catch…
AI sales startup Nooks secures $500 million in funding for expansion
Nov 4 (Reuters) – Nooks has secured a $500 million commitment from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to finance the company's sales and marketing push, the sales automation startup said on Wednesday. Unlike traditional…
TechPlace startup positions itself for growth with C-suite promotion
Salmonics LLC has named co-founder Veronica Achorn president as the Brunswick Landing biotech startup shifts its focus toward veterinary applications. CEO and co-founder Dr. Cem Giray announced the appointment on social media. He will continue to…
How ElevenLabs' CTO is rolling out AI agents-and why he thinks bigger efficiency gains are ahead for the voice AI startup
Alex Holt, the field chief technology officer at ElevenLabs, is about as bullish on AI agents as a C-suite leader can get. The AI voice startup has deployed an inbound sales development representative (SDR) agent that has handled over 3,000…
Exclusive: Meta buys AI startup, joins race to own coding in show of outsized ambition
Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that lets software engineers manage multiple coding agents simultaneously, sources familiar with the deal tell Axios exclusively. Why it matters: Meta is joining OpenAI and other AI giants in a race…
Vibe Directing,' Hybrid Filmmaking and Robots: Disney's Startup Program Goes All-In on AI
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… BURBANK, Calif. — Outside the Walt Disney Main Theatre, a Boston Dynamics four-legged robot equipped with a camera and hardware containing AI “brains” from startup FieldAI lurched…
My PR startup has copped flack. I still believe good comms shouldn't rely on your bank balance
After my c onversation with Tim Burrowes on Mumbrellacast, Mumbrella ran two responses critical of Drumbeat. One from Azadeh Williams of AZK Media, and one from Sean Sowerby of Sunday Gravy. I'm grateful to both for engaging! Azadeh argued that the…
Europe to invest €525 million in chip startups to catch up with US and China
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Published Nov 05, 2026, 02:05 AM BRUSSELS - The European Union will invest €525 million (S$754 million) in chip startups to help them scale up faster, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen…
Over 50% of startups in Tamil Nadu are led by women, says StartupTN Chairman
Currently, Tamil Nadu has over 16,000 registered startups, and of these, 50.8% are women-led firms, Singai G. Ramachandran, Chairman of StartupTN, said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Best of Best (BoB) Conference and Awards 2026, he also addressed the…
Maine startup develops AI tool for mom-and-pop convenience stores
MECHANIC FALLS — For centuries small shopkeepers have tracked inventory by hand, reconciling what's been sold with what's still on the shelves and deciding whether to restock. Even with computers, it remains a painstaking process that…
Cyprus wants a startup boom. Where are all the women entrepreneurs?
Cyprus has spent years talking up entrepreneurship. One rather awkward detail remains. Women are only half as likely as men to be starting or running a young business, and when it comes to management positions, the island sits at the very bottom of…
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