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Startup news OpenAI brings GPT-5-class reasoning to real-time voice — and it changes what voice agents can actually orchestrate May 8, 2026
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Startup news An AI agent rewrote a Fortune 50 security policy. Here's how to govern AI agents before one does the same. May 8, 2026
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Startup news Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth May 8, 2026
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Startup news Truecaller slashes 70 jobs amid declining ad sales May 8, 2026
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Startup news How Sakana trained a 7B model to orchestrate GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro May 8, 2026
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Startup news Voi founders’ new AI startup Pit has become the latest rising star out of Stockholm May 8, 2026
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Startup news Google’s $100 Fitbit Air has no screen. The product it is actually selling is a $10-a-month AI health coach. May 7, 2026
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Startup news Meet ZAYA1-8B, a super efficient, open reasoning model trained on AMD Instinct MI300 GPUs May 7, 2026
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Startup news Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27: A shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K May 7, 2026
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Startup news Moonshot AI’s $20bn valuation seals one of China’s fastest AI funding trajectories May 7, 2026
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Startup news Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent May 7, 2026
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Startup news Tata and JSW to spend $1bn building India’s way out of Chinese battery dependence May 7, 2026
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Startup news Elon Musk proposes $55 billion Terafab facility near College Station May 7, 2026
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Startup news Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days May 6, 2026
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Startup news Apple settles the consumer Siri lawsuit for $250m. The shareholder case is still live. May 6, 2026
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Startup news China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks May 6, 2026
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Startup news Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round May 6, 2026
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Startup news GPT-5.5 Instant shows you what it remembered — just not all of it May 6, 2026
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Startup news Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof. May 6, 2026
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Startup news One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it May 6, 2026