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Transfyr has launched with $25 million in seed funding to tackle a problem that AI models trained on mountains of scientific literature still cannot see: much of what makes an experiment work never makes it into the scientific record. General […] The post Transfyr launches with $25M in funding to bring physical AI to scientific…

Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in a sweeping settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harmed children through addictive features, ending a closely watched federal trial […] The post Meta agrees to $17.1 billion settlement over Facebook and Instagram harms to…

Startup investors put more than $546 million in disclosed dollar-denominated capital, plus €11.6 million, into the 10 most significant qualifying rounds identified in the latest 16-hour window. The biggest checks went to autonomous freight, AI data-center power management, and consumer […] The post Startup Funding News Today, August 26, 2026: Emerald AI, Gatik, Stellaria &…

Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, ending a 21-year experiment in crowdsourced digital labor that once put humans behind tasks computers could not handle. The timing carries a certain irony: artificial intelligence is getting better at many of the jobs […] The post Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years as AI reshapes…

Venure capital’s signal today is not that risk appetite has returned evenly across the startup market. It is that investors are paying aggressively for bottlenecks created by the deployment of artificial intelligence: electricity, model security, autonomous logistics, semiconductor design, licensed […] The post Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 25, 2026: Aramco Ventures, ARK…