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Clix’s rise: From a Connecticut Kid to an eSports Superstar to Full Box Inc.
 Launching Full Box Cody Conrad, known to the gaming world as Clix, just launched Full Box Inc., a holding company to manage and oversee his nine emerging businesses...
AI Agent Safety Gets an Open Platform From Nvidia
NVIDIA unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, an open set of tools for AI agent safety, meant to keep agents inside the limits their owners set. It...
AI Voice Agents Get Faster and More Human With ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs released two new speech models on Monday, named v4 and v4 Turbo. Aimed at AI voice agents, they speak 90 languages, answer with less delay, and copy a...
Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Puts Your Company Network at Risk
A serious Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, in fact two of them in ADC and Gateway, is under attack, and attackers used them for weeks before the public learned about it....
AI Personal Assistant Startup Instinct Lands Billion-Dollar Round
Instinct, a San Francisco company building an AI personal assistant that runs errands for you, announced a $1 billion Series C on Monday. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Coatue backed...
AI Agents for Small Business Arrive Free Through Meta Muse
Meta rolled out Muse for Small Businesses on Tuesday, opening a free door to AI agents for small business that plug into software owners already pay for. It connects...
The $3 Trillion Problem Hiding in Corporate Contracts, and the AI Built to Find It
Terzo says Fortune 500 companies have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars that leaked out of deals they had already won.  Across the global B2B economy, trillions of...
Startup Funding News: OpenAI Backs a $36M Biosecurity Bet
In the latest startup funding news, OpenAI has quietly backed Red Queen Bio, an AI-native biosecurity startup that has now raised $36 million to design antibody drugs meant to...
Brain-Computer Interface Funding Crosses $250M Mark
Precision Neuroscience closed an oversubscribed $250 million Series D for its brain-computer interface work, a raise big enough to push its valuation past $1 billion. Pershing Square Inc. and...
Digital Avatar Trend Tests Founders’ Personal Brand Strategy
TechCrunch reporter Dominic-Madori Davis spent a couple of days in Synthesia’s studio and walked out with an interactive digital avatar of herself that can answer questions out loud, in...