NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training
NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training

The Palo Alto startup, spun out of Ohio State University by Yu Su, argues that current agents complete tasks as intended only half the time, a reliability gap it plans to close by giving agents a mechanism to build world models of the domains they oper…

$4.5M seed for Realm to advance AI in enterprise sales

Realm has raised $4.5million in seed funding to accelerate enterprise sales cycles. The round wasled by Frontline Ventures, with participation from HubSpot Ventures, CalHenderson, and Alex Bouaziz.Rev…

Linexa closes €2M pre-seed to advance AI-driven manufacturing

Linexa, a Munich-based startup, has raised€2 million in pre-seed funding, led by Project A, with participation from angelinvestors including Thomas Böck, Bastian Nominacher, and Christian Schlögel.Fou…

Building agent-first governance and security
Building agent-first governance and security

As AI agents increasingly work alongside humans across organizations, companies could be inadvertently opening a new attack surface. Insecure agents can be manipulated to access sensitive systems and proprietary data, increasing enterprise risk. In some modern enterprises, non-human identities (NHI) are outpacing human identities, and that trend will explode with agentic AI. Solid governance and…

Cerebras files for IPO — company remains unprofitable despite 20x revenue growth

Cerebras’ sales hit half a billion dollars in 2025, but 86% of its revenue comes from Abu Dhabi-based G42 and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, which represents major risks.
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Anthropic nuked a company’s access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

Anthropic nukes a company’s access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks on the back of a “usage policy violation.”
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Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid
Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid

In summary: Meta has hired five founding members of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup built by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, after she rejected a reported $1 billion acquisition offer. The most expensive individual hire, co-founder Andrew Tulloch,…

Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation
Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation

Project Prometheus, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding, is developing AI systems that understand the physical world, targeting engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, and drug discovery. The round has not yet closed…

Smart Robotics secures €10M Series A to expand AI robotic picking in Europe

Smart Robotics, an embodied AI company focused onintralogistics automation, has closed a €10 million Series A funding round. Theround was led by Rotterdamse Havendraken, with participation from Innova…