Startups
Jul 29, 2026
Perplexity Brings Personal Computer AI Agent to Windows
Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, turning the world's most popular OS into a locally run AI system. The tool acts as a 'general-purpose digital worker,' accessing local files and apps to perform tasks on your behalf. It follows the Mac launch in April and Microsoft 365 integrations in May.
AI
Productivity
Startups
Jul 29, 2026
Greyparrot Raises $27M Series B for AI Waste Intel
London-based Greyparrot has closed a $27M Series B, bringing total funding to $60M, after its AI platform surpassed one trillion detected waste objects. The company's camera systems help recycling facilities and major consumer brands track materials in real time — and it's now eyeing aggressive expansion across North America and Europe.
AI
Climate Tech
Startups
Jul 29, 2026
Dwelly Raises $170M to Double Down on Property Rollups
UK proptech startup Dwelly has secured $170m from EQT Growth and General Catalyst to continue acquiring letting agencies and embedding AI across their operations. The round signals surging investor confidence in the 'AI rollup' model — acquiring traditional businesses and transforming them with proprietary software.
Proptech
AI
Venture Capital
Jul 29, 2026
Bot-Detection Startup Spur Raises $200M From Insight
Spur Intelligence has closed a $200 million funding round led by Insight Partners, backing its technology for distinguishing legitimate human traffic from automated bots. The raise signals growing enterprise demand for sophisticated bot mitigation as AI-powered scraping and fraud scale rapidly.
Cybersecurity
Startups
Venture Capital
Jul 29, 2026
Recursive Superintelligence Signs $410M Amazon Deal
AI startup Recursive Superintelligence has committed the bulk of its fundraising capital to a massive compute agreement with Amazon, signaling how aggressively new entrants are betting on infrastructure access as the core competitive advantage in the race toward advanced AI.
AI
Startups
Cloud Computing
Jul 29, 2026
Fish Audio Lands $50M Seed for AI Voice Models
Fish Audio has closed a $50 million seed round as it scales AI voice technology for both creators and enterprise customers. The startup already counts more than 8 million users across its open-source and hosted offerings, with $21 million in annual recurring revenue. It's an unusually strong commercial signal for a seed-stage company.
AI
Startups
Voice AI
Jul 28, 2026
AI IPO Billionaires Are Coming; Nonprofits Take Note
With Anthropic and OpenAI expected to go public soon, hundreds of newly wealthy employees could unleash what some estimate as $15 billion a year in additional philanthropic giving. Nonprofits ranging from AI safety labs to global health organizations are already hiring, automating, and networking furiously to position themselves for the windfall — but competition is fierce and nothing is guaranteed.
AI
Startups
Venture Capital
Jul 28, 2026
AI Overviews Now Appear in 43% of Google Searches
New data shows Google's AI Overviews are surfacing in nearly half of all searches, signaling a fundamental shift in how people find information online. For marketers and founders, the implications for organic visibility are hard to overstate.
AI
Search
Jul 28, 2026
Satya Nadella Warns Single-AI Dependency Is a Risk
Microsoft's CEO is sounding the alarm on AI monoculture: businesses that rely on a single AI model without proper infrastructure layers risk being left behind. Nadella's comments point to AI gateways and proprietary models as the new competitive moat.
Enterprise AI
AI Infrastructure
Microsoft
Jul 28, 2026
Safe Superintelligence Breaks Stealth With Nvidia Deal
After two years operating in near-total secrecy, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia to power its next phase of AI research. The deal signals that SSI is moving from foundational research toward serious compute-intensive scaling. Here's what we know and why it matters.
AI
Startups
Deep Learning
Jul 28, 2026
Cursor Bets Big on India With Localized Pricing
AI coding assistant Cursor has launched localized pricing for Indian developers, citing the country as its third-largest market globally. The move comes ahead of a reported acquisition by SpaceX and signals a broader push into emerging markets where price sensitivity is high.
AI
Developer Tools
Startups
Jul 28, 2026
Enigma Raises $70M Seed Round to Simplify Robot Control
Enigma has closed a massive $70M seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to make controlling robots as intuitive as adjusting a volume dial. The startup is betting that simplified human-robot interaction is the missing link in industrial and consumer robotics adoption. Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners also joined the round.
Robotics
Startups
Venture Capital
Jul 27, 2026
DFINITY's Cloud Engine Makes Sovereignty a Technical Fact
DFINITY founder Dominique Williams argues that cloud sovereignty can't be achieved through contracts with hyperscalers — it requires cryptographically enforced infrastructure. With the Swiss Subnet live at Davos and Pakistan building a national deployment, the Internet Computer protocol is moving from theory to state-scale practice.
Cloud Computing
Decentralization
AI
Jul 27, 2026
Cisco's Outshift Maps a Path to Distributed AI
Multi-agent AI systems today can exchange data but can't truly coordinate without human intervention. Outshift by Cisco argues the missing piece is a semantic layer — an 'Internet of Cognition' — that lets agents share intent, context, and reasoning. Here's what that architecture looks like, and why it matters for enterprises building with AI now.
AI
Enterprise AI
Multi-Agent Systems
Jul 27, 2026
UK Pension Giants Back £1bn Scale-Up Tech Fund
A consortium of UK pension funds, including Railpen and Nest, is working with the British Business Bank to launch a £1bn Scale-Up Fund aimed at backing homegrown tech companies. The move comes amid growing pressure to reduce British startups' dependence on foreign late-stage capital — and just weeks after France moved to block UK access to the EU's rival €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund.
Venture Capital
Startups
UK Tech
Jul 27, 2026
Beelzebub Raises €3M to Fight AI-Powered Cyberattacks
Italian cybersecurity startup Beelzebub has closed a €3M seed round led by United Ventures to scale its AI-native platform that detects and responds to threats already inside enterprise networks. The platform combines attack simulation, deception technology, and automated malware analysis to counter AI-driven attacks at machine speed.
Cybersecurity
Enterprise AI
Startups
Jul 27, 2026
Europe's Answer to TBPN Just Raised $1.6M
A European live tech news network has closed a $1.6 million seed round backed by Axel Springer, LadBible, and angels from OpenAI and DeepMind. The raise signals growing appetite for TBPN-style live programming outside the US, with the network now announcing its largest expansion to date.
Media
Startups
AI
Jul 27, 2026
Multiverse Computing Targets $570M to Shrink LLMs
Spanish quantum-AI scaleup Multiverse Computing is raising up to $570M in a new round co-led by Forgepoint Capital, BNPP SIVF, and Bullhound Capital. The raise values the company at $1.7B — a five-fold jump from its Series B — and backs its bet that LLM compression is the key to cheaper, edge-deployable AI.
Enterprise AI
Quantum Computing
Funding
Jul 27, 2026
Why Kimi Sent Silicon Valley Into a Panic
Moonshot AI's Kimi model triggered a wave of anxiety across Silicon Valley and Wall Street. We break down what's really driving the alarm around Chinese AI, and what it means for founders and investors navigating an increasingly competitive landscape.
AI
Chinese AI
Startups
Jul 25, 2026
Kalshi Takes Legal Aim at Netflix's 'Prediction Games'
Prediction market platform Kalshi has demanded Netflix remove a trailer for an upcoming documentary, claiming it contains defamatory content, fabricated documents, and false statements. The dispute puts one of the most prominent players in the newly legalized event contracts space on a collision course with the world's largest streaming platform. Here's what we know.
Fintech
Prediction Markets
Legal