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TechCrunch Found Harmful Outputs From Abliteration.ai’s Guardrail-Removed GLM-5.3

The startup’s modified model supplied password-theft and pathogen-related guidance in a free test. For purchases, its customer checks reportedly extend only to logging the payment card, even as it adds limited controls.

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Yesterday

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Ollie Adds SOC 2 Credential for Family AI, With Messages Retained Up to 24 Months

The certification supports Ollie’s bid to manage household schedules and errands. Its privacy policy sets the operating tradeoff: messages may go to model providers, and users must request earlier deletion to shorten retention.

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13 hours agoStartups

Funding Startups

Thinking Machines Reportedly Seeks $1B at a Valuation of at Least $40B

The proposed financing would put a far higher price on Mira Murati’s AI lab than its last round, while leaving the final valuation, investor commitment and close unresolved.

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YesterdayStartups

Funding Startups

HiddenLayer Raises $100M for Runtime Controls on Enterprise AI Agents

The startup is funding a security layer meant to observe and intervene as agents use enterprise tools. Its test is whether buyers will keep purchasing that layer independently of the platforms hosting their AI.

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YesterdayStartups

Funding Startups

Empirik Emerges With $21M to Check Infrastructure Changes Before Deployment

The Sequoia-incubated startup wants to calculate a proposed change’s reach before it runs, then block or escalate risky work. Its central test is whether enterprises will trust those assessments in production.

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Sep 1, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

AIR Raises $50M for Continuous Checks on AI-Agent Add-Ons

The startup aims to stop enterprise agents from consuming risky tools and external content after approval—not only before it. Its early commercial metrics are company-reported.

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Sep 1, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Blue Voice Raises $6M to Put Department Policy AI in Police Officers’ Hands

The startup’s pitch is a constrained one: retrieve the governing local rule quickly and show its source, while officers—not the system—retain responsibility for action.

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Aug 31, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Lambda Adds $1B in Short-Dated Debt for Nvidia Chips Bound for Microsoft

The borrowing adds another customer-specific hardware deployment to Lambda’s balance sheet, while its reported equity plans remain unfinished.

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Aug 31, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Clipto Raises $15M at $250M Valuation to Turn Local Files Into AI-Agent Context

The profitable file-search startup says its MCP connection lets authorized AI tools retrieve selected local data. Its bet is that cross-format search can remain a product category even as large platforms build similar features into their own apps.

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Last week

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Aug 26, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Instinct Raises $250M at $2.5B for a Private-Beta Agent With Deep Access

The financing backs an assistant built to take actions across connected services. Its next challenge is turning broad permissions into enough trust for wider use.

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Aug 26, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Runable Raises $21M to Push Its AI Agent From Building Sites to Finding Customers

The Bengaluru startup is betting that small businesses want outcomes across websites, analytics and marketing—not another coding tool. Its economic model and access to advertising accounts remain important constraints.

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Aug 26, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Legato Raises $12M for AI Hearing Glasses That Filter Voices From Noise

The startup’s wager is that a glasses form factor can lower cost, comfort and stigma barriers for people who have not adopted conventional hearing aids.

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Aug 26, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Arga Raises $10 Million to Build Resettable Enterprise AI-Agent Sandboxes

Its digital twins are meant to reproduce the permissions, webhooks and changing state that make business-software workflows difficult to test repeatedly and safely.

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Aug 25, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

General Intuition Seeks $6B Pre-Money Valuation for Robotics Model Push

The prospective raise centers on a foundation model built from gameplay input and a planned push toward robotic embodiments.

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Aug 25, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Generalist Reportedly Adds Nearly $200M at $3B Valuation for Robot Learning From Demonstrations

The financing puts more weight on a narrow but consequential question: whether short demonstrations can become a reliable alternative to task-by-task robot programming.

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Aug 25, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Stability AI Raises $76M as Music and Gaming Partners Back Its Creative AI Push

The funding adds runway for products and services, but it also puts companies supplying catalogues and intellectual property closer to Stability AI’s model-development strategy.

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August 2026

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Aug 22, 2026Startups

Acquisition Startups

Cognition CEO Denies SpaceX Buyout Talks, Leaving a Possible Compute Tie Unresolved

The public dispute leaves no announced transaction. The only potential continuing connection described is a collaboration in which Cognition could use SpaceX computing capacity.

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Aug 21, 2026Startups

Startups

Outer Biosciences Uses Discarded Surgical Skin to Hunt Cosmetic Ingredients

The company’s bet is that keeping donated skin viable for weeks can reveal slower changes that short toxicity tests miss. The commercial proof will come when partners turn its leads into finished ingredients.

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