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Jul 30, 2026
Zuckerberg Previews Meta's Push Into Personal AI Agents
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Aug 13, 2026
Skan AI Raises $63M to Map the Work That AI Agents Can't See
Skan AI has closed a $63M Series C to bring its screen-observation platform to the heart of enterprise AI deployment. The seven-year-old startup argues that AI agents keep failing not because the models are bad, but because the process documentation they're trained on is fiction. Its new Blueprint and Agents products aim to fix that — by watching how work actually happens.
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Aug 13, 2026
Lovable Raises $400M Series C at $13.3B Valuation
Stockholm-based vibe-coding startup Lovable has closed a $400M Series C co-led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, pushing its valuation to $13.3B — more than double the $6.6B it commanded just eight months ago. The round draws a broad global syndicate spanning Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the US. Lovable plans to grow headcount by 50% to 450 and push deeper into enterprise markets while expanding its multi-model AI strategy.
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Aug 13, 2026
Blacksmith's Valuation Hits $550M on 10x Revenue Growth
Blacksmith, the CI/CD infrastructure startup purpose-built for GitHub Actions, has seen its valuation jump nearly 10x to $550M in under a year, driven by a tenfold surge in revenue as AI coding agents dramatically increase demand for fast, reliable software validation. The San Francisco company has raised roughly $59M across four rounds since its 2024 founding. Its rise is one of the clearest signals yet that the AI coding boom is creating a massive derivative market in testing and build infrastructure.
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Aug 13, 2026
Cognition in Talks to Raise Again at $40B Valuation
Cognition, makers of AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly in early talks to raise more than $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion — a 54% jump from the $26 billion it commanded just three months ago. The company's annualized revenue run rate is approaching $1 billion, roughly double what it reported at its last financing. If the round closes, it would cement Cognition as one of the most valuable pure-play AI coding companies in the world.
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Aug 12, 2026
Cytix Raises $7M to Manage Cyber Risk of AI-Written Code
Manchester-based Cytix has closed a $7M Series A led by Northern Gritstone to scale its change risk management platform — purpose-built to give security teams visibility into the business risk introduced by AI-assisted software development. The startup counts NCC Group and KPMG among its managed service partners and is targeting enterprise and regulated-industry customers.
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Aug 13, 2026
Skan AI Raises $63M to Map the Work That AI Agents Can't See
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Aug 13, 2026
Lovable Raises $400M Series C at $13.3B Valuation
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Skan AI Raises $63M to Map the Work That AI Agents Can't See
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