Athens-based customer support automation company Omilia has raised a $67 million Series B led by Expedition Growth Capital, the company announced in August 2026. The round marks Omilia’s first…
Malachyte, founded by ex-Spotify engineers Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson and Shivaditya Sinha, raised $10M to bring real-time e-commerce recommendations using Vector AI—the system powering ~90% of Spotify recommendations for 800M users. Announced Aug 2026, the round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient, with Harpoon Ventures participating, as “two-headed Vector AI” updates recommendations from in-session hovers, scrolls, searches and add-to-cart.
Mirendil, the recursive self-improvement startup, secured a multi-year Google Cloud partnership worth $100M+ reported Aug. 6, 2026. CEO Behnam Neyshabur says it adds Google TPUs and Nvidia GPUs and managed training clusters—about half its late-June 2026 $1B seed—aiming for continuous research like Alzheimer’s.
Lawfare says xAI’s Grokipedia hasn’t updated since April 24, 2026—its status page shows “No live edits available right now.” Launched in Oct 2025 (v0.1, 885k articles) and now at 6M+ entries, Lawfare reviewed 34,519 pages and 225,496 suggested edits and found no accepted/rejected changes in 3 months.
Klaviyo, the publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform, has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup. The deal, announced in August 2026, brings…
A new White House agency staffed by former members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is actively recruiting engineers through informal channels, raising questions about its hiring…
Gautam Gupta—former Uber CFO—joined Travis Kalanick’s robotics/industrial AI startup Atoms as its new CFO on Aug 5, 2026, weeks after the company closed a $1.7B funding round. TechCrunch reporting says Uber contributed about $100M, and Atoms also acquired mining autonomy startup Pronto, run by Anthony Levandowski.
Jeff Dean, one of Google’s longest-serving executives and its 30th employee, announced in August 2026 that he is leaving the company to launch an AI startup focused on accelerating scientific…
Google announced a significant reshaping of its top AI leadership in August 2026, with Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis moving into a new role and longtime Google engineer Jeff Dean leaving to…
A new AI detection tool released by music generator company Treblo has flagged rapper Fenix Flexin’s song “Rubberz” as “very likely Treblo” with “high confidence,” intensifying an ongoing controversy…
TechCrunch has selected eight Australian startups to compete at Startup Battlefield Australia, taking place at Stripe Tour Sydney on August 19, 2026. The finalists will pitch for $15,000 in Stripe…
Hark, an AI startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May 2026, launched its browser-based agent called Hark Handoff on August 5, 2026. The tool is designed to complete tasks on behalf of users by navigating websites directly, without relying on official APIs.
