The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot WIRED
An SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims The San Francisco Standard
Before AI was everywhere, a Cleveland startup had a head start. Then IBM Watson swallowed it Cleveland.com
This Startup Is Building ChatGPT For Catholics Forbes
Space Force’s commercial gatekeeper offers a playbook for startups seeking defense business SpaceNews
Indian engineers spent years chasing Silicon Valley. Now some say, ‘I would not come to the U.S.’ San Francisco Chronicle
Trump plan to give start-ups plutonium harvested from Cold War–era nuclear weapons is risky, experts say Scientific American
After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M TechCrunch
Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app TechCrunch
Anthropic tops OpenAI as most valuable AI startup, nears $1 trillion valuation in latest round CNBC
Why Paris may be the most important AI city outside Silicon Valley TechCrunch
South Africa’s Aura to Nigeria’s Sycamore: 25 African Startups to Watch in 2026 Bloomberg.com