QueryStory emerged from stealth and has raised a $6 million seed round at a $60 million valuation to sell model-agnostic enterprise tools for querying proprietary databases with LLMs while showing confidence indicators and surfacing the underlying SQL for review.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Arga raised a $10 million seed round led by General Catalyst to build training environments that digitally clone enterprise software for testing AI agents with permission systems and webhooks intact.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Jim Cramer said investors “can’t afford” to skip Seagate, Western Digital, Micron, and Sandisk as AI demand makes memory a “bottleneck.”
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Legato is emerging from stealth with $12M in funding and plans to launch its AI hearing glasses, Legato Frames, later this fall.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
LayerZero announced ATLAS, a “trading and settlement engine” that venues can plug into without building their own matching, clearing, settlement, and risk systems, driving ZRO up more than 20% (to about a $1 level earlier in the session)
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
MSCI’s world stocks inched up 0.1% as Brent crude fell nearly 3% to $85.95 a barrel on hopes a “joint temporary navigational corridor” through the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and be cleared of mines.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bill Gates says the world is “not preparing” for a faster-than-expected AI transition that will be “one of the most turbulent times in human history,” with AI either becoming “the greatest equalizer ever invented” or “the worst source of injustice.”
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Verge
“Open” AI models mainly refer to open-weight models that enterprises can inspect and run to customize outputs, but that typically do not disclose the model code or full training data—whereas “truly open-source” models also release trained data and related information for study, inspection, modification, and free distribution.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Runable raised a $21 million Series A valuing it at $65 million after investment to expand its AI agent from building small-business content into “grow” tasks like ads, SEO, social and optimizing for AI chatbot search results.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
David Tepper sold all ~90,000 shares of UnitedHealth in Q2 2026 as he shifted Appaloosa Management’s focus toward AI-related stocks (with Amazon, Micron, and Taiwan Semiconductor now accounting for nearly 40% of the fund).
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ventures Platform raised an oversubscribed $83 million for its second Africa venture fund, with plans to deploy the capital over the next 3–4 years via checks of up to $3 million for early-stage companies across multiple sectors.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Ringg raised $10 million from Peak XV Partners as an extension of its Series A, bringing the round total to $15.5 million after previously raising $5.5 million earlier this year.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Generalist is valued at $3 billion after raising nearly $200 million led by 8VC, extending its $400 million Series B announced in June at a $2 billion valuation to a total $600 million funding round.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Chris Malone, OpenAI’s former head of data centers, left the company last week after overseeing the execution of OpenAI’s data center strategy.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Perplexity is building a local AI agent called Portable Computer that runs on an Nvidia DGX Spark workstation with locally hosted models (and can fall back to cloud inference) to cut per-token API costs and keep private tokens on-device.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Register
Intel’s Diamond Rapids (Xeon 7) platform has been delayed to 2027 and its top SKU will use 256 performance cores per socket instead of shipping with 192 cores.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Register
Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agents reached $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue last quarter, up 205% year over year, with 3.8 billion tasks completed to date.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Free ChatGPT accounts can now access ChatGPT’s task scheduling menu, which was previously limited to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
Humanoid robots at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing beat human world records in the 100-meter sprint and standing high jump, even as some robots crashed, broke apart, or caught fire during races.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Perplexity launched Portable Computer, which runs the AI entirely on-device and keeps “private data local” while charging customers only when users explicitly escalate a task to the cloud for “more advanced research and reasoning,” instead of consuming token credits for on-device work.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Computerworld
