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RapidCanvas Announces $29M Series B to Move Enterprise AI From Pilots to Production
RapidCanvas, an Austin-based managed AI execution company, has secured $29 million in Series B funding led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with participation from Hitachi Ventures and existing investors Accel, Peak XV Partners, Valley Capital Partners and Titanium Ventures. The round brings total funding to $52.5 million and follows 8x growth in annual recurring…
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Amazon’s Panos Panay Bets on Ambient AI Over Apps as the Future of Personal Computing
Panos Panay, Amazon’s SVP of Devices, Alexa & Leo, used an appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt to argue that personal AI is heading toward ambient computing rather than app-driven interaction. Speaking alongside the debut of Amazon’s new Bee AI wearables, Panay said today’s smartphones require users to remember and direct every task, whereas ambient devices use…
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Gudea Pitches AI “Storm Tracker” for Online Narratives at TechCrunch Disrupt Following $7M Seed Round
Gudea, a startup using AI to track how stories and rumors spread online, pitched its platform on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, shortly after securing $7 million in seed funding co-led by Mudita Venture Partners and Silicon Road Ventures. The round brings its total funding to about $15 million. Unlike traditional social…
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Modal Secures $750M Series D at $15.75B Valuation After Passing $1B Run Rate
AI infrastructure company Modal has secured a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation, led by Accel, with Kleiner Perkins joining and existing investors including Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Redpoint, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners and Bain Capital Ventures participating. The company said it recently crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate, with…
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Waymo Plans Toronto Robotaxi Launch in 2028
Insider Brief Waymo plans to launch its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Toronto in 2028, marking its first expansion into Canada, with mapping and manually supervised testing beginning in the coming days. The company is partnering with Element Fleet Management to support fleet operations and expects the expansion to create hundreds of jobs in areas…
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Fragment Raises $12M Series A to Turn Agents into Financial Operators
Insider Brief Fragment, a New York-based AI-enabled financial infrastructure startup, has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by FirstMark with participation from BoxGroup, bringing its total funding to $23 million. The company helps vertical AI businesses automate their customers’ billing, payments and accounting, counts Ramp, BILL and Whop among its customers, and…
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Figma Debuts Specs Editor to Keep AI Agents On-Brand at First Config India Event
Figma has introduced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor that lets teams define their design language as a reference for both designers and AI agents, at its first Config event in India. Specs can exist as a standalone file or within the canvas, and can reference canvas elements and embed FigJam diagrams, code layers and designs.…
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Anthropic Grants METR Researchers Employee-Level Access for Independent AI Risk Assessments
Anthropic is giving six researchers from METR, a nonprofit that tests frontier AI models, employee-level access to independently assess its models, safety practices and risk management. The METR team has company-issued laptops, office space and access to internal tools roughly comparable to those used by Anthropic’s own risk assessment teams, and staff are encouraged to…
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Meta turns Mac into an AI supercomputer
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 5,678 new readers. Earlier this week, Meta caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic with its frontier model Muse Wonder. Turns out, the comeback story had one more chapter: a large open-weight release with an unlikely partner.…
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China’s RoboParty Launches Open-Source RP1 Humanoid for Robotics Research
Insider Brief RoboParty has launched RP1, a full-stack open-source humanoid robot for robotics research and embodied AI development, with access to both hardware and software. RP1 comes in standard and Pro versions with 24 and 30 actuated degrees of freedom, respectively, and supports modular hardware, whole-body control, VR teleoperation, motion capture and simulation-to-real-world workflows. The…
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