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Rillet co-founder and CEO Nicolas Kopp seems justifiably confident as we talk over Zoom a day after his company announced a $100 million raise at a $1 billion valuation. The U.S. has a shortage of accountants right now, which is driving growth of his AI-native accounting platform so much, he raised that cash in 48…

Odisha state Higher Education minister Suryabanshi Suraj(File photo | Express) Updated on: 23 Aug 2026, 3:20 am

Japan is pouring billions of dollars into its burgeoning space industry and easing restrictions on defense exports, efforts designed to build a homegrown aerospace sector filled with domestic startups that have a global reach.

Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos.

Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf, and is now hard at work on its quest to resurrect several other species, including the woolly mammoth and the moa, a giant extinct bird. While that’s happening, the company is also pursuing a quieter, more near-term ambition: incubating a cadre of startups that can…

The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive boom for a cohort of data-labeling startups.

Andreessen Horowitz has made headlines for its American dynamism thesis, but a U.S. passport is no requirement. According to Gabriel Vasquez, a partner focusing on AI apps and the firm’s global investment strategy, “44% of our investments in the Apps Fund One and Two have an international founder.” 

A biotech startup called Vivodyne says the AI drug-discovery industry has a data problem, and that it has built a machine to fix it.

DMAT is commercializing findings from the lab of Associate Professor Admir Masic to make concrete longer-lasting and more sustainable. Zach Winn|MIT News Publication Date: August 19, 2026

Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial.