Month August 2026

Cognition Is Said to Be Chasing a $40 Billion Valuation After Rapid Devin Growth

AI coding startup Cognition is reportedly seeking a new round at a $40B valuation after rapid Devin growth and rising enterprise demand.

Twitch AI opt-out lets streamers block their content from Amazon generative AI training while keeping captions, safety, and discovery tools.

Thrive Holdings raised $2 billion to expand enterprise AI across accounting, IT and regulated infrastructure businesses.

The open AI debate sharpened in Las Vegas as Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng argued for nuanced openness and stronger regulation.

Automattic’s personal CRM Mesh arrives on Android with AI search, widgets, and Beeper integration plans.

Sandbar raised $36 million to build a voice ring that uses push-to-talk input to avoid the AI hardware graveyard.

Sandbar says AI wearables should be voice-first. The Stream ring aims to capture thoughts privately as the startup raises $36 million.

Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation after hitting $500M ARR, cementing its rise as a leading vibe-coding startup.

D’Addario admitted a Suno-generated track was used in a promo video after denying it, intensifying the AI music controversy.

The VideoVerse acquisition has collapsed into fraud claims, forged-signature allegations and unpaid investors after the $250M Minute Media deal.