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1. FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains and Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth

   Published: 8/27/2025
2. As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL start pulling the plug

   Published: 8/26/2025
3. YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’

   Published: 8/26/2025
4. Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.

   Published: 8/25/2025
5. Group14 lands $463M to make silicon anodes for EVs, also, SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents

   Published: 8/25/2025
6. New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone

   Published: 8/22/2025
7. FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains, plus Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

   Published: 8/22/2025
8. Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

   Published: 8/21/2025
9. AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M and is still looking to hire agents as employees, also, Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

   Published: 8/21/2025
10. Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered sleep tech

    Published: 8/20/2025
11. Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

    Published: 8/20/2025
12. Les Amis, the app helping women form friendships, launches in New York ... and more

    Published: 8/19/2025
13. Hank Green’s Focus Friend app is climbing the App Store charts — and it’s extremely cute

    Published: 8/19/2025
14. Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever ... and more news

    Published: 8/18/2025
15. Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up ... and more

    Published: 8/18/2025
16. Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer ... and more

    Published: 8/15/2025
17. Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

    Published: 8/15/2025
18. Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

    Published: 8/14/2025
19. Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint

    Published: 8/14/2025
20. TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global

    Published: 8/13/2025