Hark Handoff, launched August 5, 2026, by Brett Adcock's Hark (which raised $700M Series A in May), is a browser use agent that navigates websites without official APIs — it scored 97.7 on the OM2W benchmark...
Eight Australian startups will pitch live at Stripe Tour Sydney on August 19, 2026, competing for $15,000 in Stripe fee credits, investor attention, and automatic entry into Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCr...
Lucid Motors pushed its sub $50,000 Cosmos crossover from late 2026 to the second half of 2027 because new CEO Silvio Napoli says the company has a pattern of launching vehicles 'before they were ready,' and...
On August 5, 2026, four of Google's most senior AI researchers—Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le—left to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aiming to automate the scient...
Lightspeed Venture Partners hired Claire Zau, a tech content creator with 350,000+ followers across Instagram and TikTok, after CMO Josh Machiz sent her a cold Instagram DM.
Klaviyo acquired Agency, a three year old AI customer success startup founded by Elias Torres, on August 5, 2026.
On August 3, 2026, the DOJ finalized a $3.2 million settlement with OpenAI and its subsidiary Statsig for violating the Immigration and Nationality Act by discriminating against U.S.
Moove has raised $250 million in Series C funding at a $2.1 billion valuation, led by Mubadala Investment Company, to scale its autonomous vehicle fleet management business by building robotics first depots...
Gautam Gupta, Uber's finance chief from 2013–2017, joined Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics startup Atoms as CFO on August 5, 2026, weeks after the company closed a $1.7 billion equity round led by Andre...
Meta launched Muse Code on August 5, 2026 — a terminal based AI coding agent in beta, powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 model, that directly competes with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.
Meta launched Muse Code on August 5, 2026 — a terminal based AI coding agent in beta, powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 model, that directly competes with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex [1][2][4].
Ford's new Fathom is a midsize all electric pickup truck with a starting MSRP of $28,350 ($29,945 delivered) — the first fully equipped, five seat electric truck from a legacy American automaker priced under...