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(Bloomberg) — Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all that code. Blacksmith has raised a new $45 million round to capitalize on that shift.

Lumilens Inc., a provider of optical networking chips for artificial intelligence clusters,launchedtoday with $900 million in funding.

In 2026, 19.2% of African tech startups had at least one female co-founder and only 12.1% had a female CEO

August 03, 2026 | 22:45(0) user say A new startup incubation programme will select up to 10 startups from at least 100 applications, with three advancing to testbed and fundraising stages.

It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running — are springing up to help them.

A Hattiesburg native, Millsaps College graduate and recent Columbia Business School MBA, Thomas could have remained in New York, pursued opportunities with established companies or joined the growing list of young professionals building careers outside Mississippi. Instead, he chose to come home.

European technology startups raised €44.1 billion (approximately $50.6 billion USD) in the first half of 2026 — a 27% rebound from the prior year — but the number of companies actually receiving investment fell to its lowest point in six years, according to the Tech.eu H1 2026 European Tech Ecosystem Report published today. Beneath the…

Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as enterprises deploy autonomous software across their operations.

Martha Stewart is entering the AI software era in the most Martha Stewart way possible: She has joined the co-founding team at Hint, an app that leverages AI technology to manage the tasks surrounding home maintenance and management. With the Hint app, which launches today, homeowners can tackle challenges around maintenance schedules/tasks and energy management,…