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businessinsider.com - Sophia Cai - Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Business Insider

Almost 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. On…

bloomberg.com - Saritha Rai - China's Psibot Becomes Latest AI Startup to Hit $1 Billion Value
China's Psibot Becomes Latest AI Startup to Hit $1 Billion Value
Bloomberg

PsiBot is raising close to $100 million of funding at a $1.48 billion valuation, joining a growing roster of Chinese AI startups capitalizing on interest in the burgeoning field. The company known also as Lingchu Intelligence is close to finalizing…

gizmodo.com - Bruce Gil - This Startup Wants to Buy a Company Just to See What an AI CEO Does With It
This Startup Wants to Buy a Company Just to See What an AI CEO Does With It
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Forget AI coding agents. One startup is now working on an AI CEO that it hopes could automate an entire business from end to end. Skyfall AI came out of stealth this week after spending the past year developing AI systems that are designed to make…

jpost.com - YOSSI HURST - Israeli startup Glow raises $180m for AI endpoint security platform
Israeli startup Glow raises $180m for AI endpoint security platform
The Jerusalem Post

Israeli cybersecurity startup Glow emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, launching an AI-powered platform designed to prevent security threats from reaching corporate devices. Glow focuses on…

thehill.com - Julia Shapero - White House official accuses Chinese startup of distilling Anthropic model, accessing banned Nvidia chips
White House official accuses Chinese startup of distilling Anthropic model, accessing banned Nvidia chips
The Hill

A top White House official accused a Chinese startup on Wednesday of improperly using Anthropic's latest model and accessing restricted Nvidia chips to develop its new Kimi model. Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science…

afr.com - Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood, Emma Rapaport, Angira Bharadwaj - C-suites pile into ex-Eucalyptus staff's new hangover startup
C-suites pile into ex-Eucalyptus staff's new hangover startup
Australian Financial Review

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

fastcompany.com - Kristin Toussaint - Nobody knows how bad corporate AI emissions really are. This startup has a way to estimate them
Nobody knows how bad corporate AI emissions really are. This startup has a way to estimate them
Fast Company

More and more companies are implementing artificial intelligence into both their internal workflows and their external products, and that AI use comes with an environmental impact. Already, AI data centers are driving a surge in electricity demand…

entrepreneur.com - Peter Daisyme - As a Startup Advisor, I See AI's Limitations Daily. Here's How to Refine Its Output So It Actually Attracts Investors.
As a Startup Advisor, I See AI's Limitations Daily. Here's How to Refine Its Output So It Actually Attracts Investors.
Homepage | Entrepreneur

AI can quickly create a business plan, but investors care more about whether the founder truly understands and can defend the strategy behind it. AI-generated plans often contain generic content or inaccurate information, so every assumption…

thehindu.com - The Hindu Bureau - Nationwide startup incubation programme inaugurated at ICAR-CPCRI
Nationwide startup incubation programme inaugurated at ICAR-CPCRI
The Hindu

The nationwide startup incubation programme SHITIJ 2.0, sponsored by the ICAR–National Agricultural Innovation Fund (ICAR–NAIF), was virtually inaugurated at the ICAR–Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (ICAR-CPCRI)…

theconversation.com - Hussein Abbass - OpenAI's models autonomously hacked a tech startup. It signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity
OpenAI's models autonomously hacked a tech startup. It signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity
The Conversation

An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week. The agent didn't just exploit vulnerabilities in Hugging…

indianexpress.com - Reuters - AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic; AI startup to buy up to 2 GW of chips
AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic; AI startup to buy up to 2 GW of chips
The Indian Express

1 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google Advanced Micro Devices said on Wednesday it would invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and the artificial intelligence startup would buy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's latest-generation AI chips…

thehindubusinessline.com - Kerala eyes global agri market through value addition, export-oriented startups: Minister Siddique
Kerala eyes global agri market through value addition, export-oriented startups: Minister Siddique
BusinessLine

Kerala has immense potential to strengthen its presence in the global agricultural market through value addition, scientific processing, quality assurance and branding of agricultural produce, State Agriculture Minister T Siddique has said. He…

cyprus-mail.com - Cyprus Business Now: tourism, Eurobank, Keve, startups, construction, CBC, LNG
Cyprus Business Now: tourism, Eurobank, Keve, startups, construction, CBC, LNG
Cyprus Mail

In a statement filed with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and addressed to the Israel Securities Authority, NewMed said the MoU was signed on July 22 by the Aphrodite field partners, the Cyprus Hydrocarbons Company and EGAS. The company said the…

thehindubusinessline.com - Runway Grant Demo Day 2026 to showcase AI, HealthTech and AgriTech startups
Runway Grant Demo Day 2026 to showcase AI, HealthTech and AgriTech startups
BusinessLine

Runway, part of the Pearl Academy, which provides handholding to startups, plans to bring together startup founders working across sectors, including Artificial Intelligence, HealthTech, Fashion & Apparel, E-commerce, AgriTech, Sustainability…

forbes.com - Max Surkiz - Telecoms' Turn: How Non-AI Industries Could Shape The Future Of AI
Telecoms' Turn: How Non-AI Industries Could Shape The Future Of AI
Forbes

Max Surkiz is founder and CEO of Navetix, an AI agent management platform. ​As artificial intelligence (AI) moves beyond experimentation and into everyday use, a new challenge is emerging: how to turn AI from an occasional tool into a…

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