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AI Startups to Watch - August 15, 2026
AI startups August 15: SpaceX closes a $60B Cursor buy, Astra seeks $250M at $1B, and Writer cuts token costs 50%. Five moves worth watching.
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General AI News - August 16, 2026
AI news August 16: the US asks allies to pick a side vs China, Anthropic shelves a stronger model, DeepSeek hikes prices 12x. Nine shifts that matter today.
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AI Startups to Watch - August 16, 2026
AI startups to watch August 16: SpaceX closes its $60B Cursor deal, an open Chinese model beats frontier rivals, Unitree's $9B IPO lands. Five disruptive moves.
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General AI News August 17, 2026
Top AI news for August 17, 2026: Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B, a 27B open model beats Opus on coding, and OpenAI disbands its preparedness team.
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AI Startups to Watch August 17, 2026
AI startups to watch August 17, 2026: a $7B Stripe buyout of OpenRouter, Anthropic's first profitable quarter, an AI store manager that fired a human, Manus.
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General AI News - August 15, 2026
AI news August 15: Apple trains a China model with Alibaba, SpaceX closes the $60B Cursor deal, and GLM-5.3 doubles exploit scores. Read the full digest.
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AI Startups to Watch - August 14, 2026
AI startups raised over $600M in 48 hours: Lovable at $13.3B, Jeff Dean new lab at $10B, CodeRabbit at $1.5B. Five moves reshaping software.
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General AI News - August 14, 2026
AI news for August 14, 2026: three frontier models shipped in one day, the White House opened cyber ops to private firms, and Anthropic ran the retraining math.
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General AI News - August 13, 2026
Top AI news August 13: Meta open-sources Muse Glimmer, Claude pushes a Riemann zeta bound to 67.2%, Gemini hits 1B users. The day in AI, one read.
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AI Startups to Watch - August 13, 2026
AI startups to watch August 13: Anthropic may buy Decart for $6B, Cognition talks at a $40B valuation, Thrive raises $2B. Five moves reshaping the market.
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AI Startups to Watch August 12, 2026
AI startups August 12: Kevin Weil's $150M raise, Manus splits from Meta, Grok Bot launches beta, Suno passes 100M users. Six moves worth watching.
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General AI News August 12, 2026
AI news August 12: Gemini hits 1 billion users, a CoT-decryption attack hits OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, and a $9.1B compute deal.