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Serval (getserval) announced a $150M Series C round at a $3B valuation led by Sequoia, its third round in 12 months, bringing total funding to $277M, with notable customers including Fox Corporation, WPP, Live Nation, Lucid Motors, and Ramp.
Ex-Palantir executives Andy Alder and Arjun Mather launched Dream, a startup building AI world models for building design and engineering, with $17 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company's 'structural cognition' model, trained on over 100 million square feet of building permit data, is already deployed across 10 projects in Texas and California.
Simantic (YC F26) Launch HN post announcing a firmware simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware on virtual devboards without physical hardware, positioned as a faster alternative to Renode and QEMU.
Wabi, the AI agent startup founded by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda, raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation as it pivots from prompt-based app building to a personal AI agent that builds mini apps. The round was led by IVP with participation from a16z, Forerunner, and Amazon Alexa Fund.
Rogueon AI announced the launch of Constellation, a new product from the startup, detailed in their blog post.
Instinct, a personal AI agent founded by 23-year-old Noah Shinn, is reportedly raising funding at a valuation of around $30 billion. Less than a year after launch, its valuation has soared from roughly $100 million, potentially making it the AI company with the fastest valuation growth in 2026.
Nscale's unproven CEO is pushing ahead with a bid for a $30 billion neocloud IPO despite turmoil in the AI infrastructure market, betting on strong demand for GPU cloud capacity.
TechCrunch Founder Summit, a one-day startup bootcamp in Boston on November 4, is 7 days away with up to $100 off tickets; the event features breakout sessions, roundtables, live pitching, and networking.
一家初创公司宣称其帽子内置约十万个微型芯片和传感器，能够将人的想法直接转换为AI提示词。
Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person biotech founded by Cody Tranbarger (aka @Prof_Oak_), to advance a 'Pipeline-in-a-Person' operating model using Claude to run multiple drug programs in parallel and scale AI across biopharma.
Hex announces a $100M raise alongside Hex 4.0, a from-scratch rewrite of its data analytics platform built agent-native, with everything-as-code and support for data work happening across tools like Cursor, Claude, and custom agents.
Mecka, a physical AI data layer startup that raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, is recruiting elite engineers by hosting a private box at the League of Legends Worlds final in the USA, leveraging the founders' challenger-ranked gaming credentials to reach talent where they spend time.
Elad Gil leads a Series A investment in Lumaril, a newly launched industrial autonomy company founded by ex-Palantir engineers that aims to help existing US factories operate at full capacity with less waste.
Infisical announces a $40M Series B at a $600M valuation led by Elad Gil, highlighting growing demand for security and secrets management solutions in the age of AI-generated code and autonomous agents.
Following a $750M Series D, Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson discusses how each shift in software changes both the AI applications that can be created and the infrastructure needed to build them.
Marko Kraemer endorses Raphael and the team at Alexandria Inc, a new tool for building internal human 'datalabs' to capture knowledge at scale and enable the transition from human to superintelligence (SI) workforce.
Y Combinator W20 startup Candid Health, which rebuilds medical billing stacks with automation and AI agents, discusses scaling to 200+ organizations, $7B in annual claims processing, and a recent $120M Series D in this fireside chat with co-founder and CEO Nick Perry.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will take place on November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, featuring speakers from Toast, Bessemer Venture Partners, and other startups and VC firms discussing product-market fit, scaling, team building, and pitching investors.
Spacesheep (YC F26) launches on Product Hunt, turning any AI agent's output into shareable interactive docs, live dashboards, mockups, or apps for team collaboration.
Moonshot AI 的 17 岁研究员、Kimi K3 核心架构论文《Attention Residuals》共同一作陈光宇据报离开月之暗面，加入由前 Google 首席科学家 Jeff Dean 创办的美国初创 Discovery Loop，凸显中美对 AI 人才的激烈争夺。