Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after US Air Force deal

In one year, Shield AI’s value has leaped 140%. This after it won a contract to be the software provider to Anduril’s Fury fighter jet for the U.S. Air Force.

The least surprising chapter of the Manus story is what’s happening right now

Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?

Silicon Valley’s two biggest dramas have intersected: LiteLLM and Delve

LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.

Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down

Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Elad Gil can’t get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones 

Lucid Bots has seen demand accelerate over the last year for its window cleaning drones and power washing robots.

Talat’s AI meeting notes stay on your machine, not in the cloud

The subscription-free AI meeting notes app is a local-first twist on notetaking tools like Granola.

Pinterest launches a new feature to promote a Pin

Pinterest is rolling out promoted pin feature to the users in the U.S. in coming weeks

Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind

Agile Robots will incorporate Google DeepMind’s robotics foundation models into its bots while collecting data for the AI research lab.

Emil Michael, now a senior Pentagon official, says he’ll never forgive Uber investors who ousted him and Kalanick

When asked whether he was still “salty” about about being shown the door at Uber, alongside co-founder Travis Kalanick, Michael didn’t equivocate. “I’ll never forget that, nor forgive,” he said.

Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way

Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.