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3,183 UK companies put 'AI' in their name in nine months
Registrations of AI-named companies rose 29 per cent to September, far outpacing company formation generally. The law firm that counted them says a name cleared by Companies House is not a name you are safe to trade under.
Wiremind takes €35m after 12 years without outside capital
The Paris software firm turned down the venture route from 2014 until this month. Its founders keep majority control and say the reason to raise now is how fast transport operators are buying AI.
Pentagon drops Anthropic seven months after guardrails refusal
A US defence official says the department has stopped using Anthropic's tools, having branded the company a national security supply chain risk in February. The designation is the one usually aimed at firms based in hostile states.
Trump hands AI oversight to his intelligence chief
The new "Super Intelligence Force" puts the Director of National Intelligence, the FTC chair and a Pentagon research chief in one room. No rules, powers or deadlines have been published.
Y Combinator's Little Tech PAC has backed 66 campaign committees
The accelerator's political vehicle is giving to candidates in both parties, according to Inc., ahead of a wider fight over technology policy in Washington.
114 Series A rounds of $100m or more logged so far in 2026
Crunchbase counts $33bn poured into first institutional rounds this year, more than 70% of it into AI startups. The bar a seed founder is measured against has moved.
Tampa solo founder builds AI research platform that exposes when AI models disagree
MelMat asks eight AI models the same question and prints where they disagree. One recent brief came back with 51% consensus, which is rather the point.
Bill to ban superintelligent AI reaches parliament on 8 September
A private member's bill drafted by campaign group ControlAI would prohibit superintelligent AI development in Britain and force the government to monitor its precursors. What counts as a precursor is the part founders will want to read.
Lawyer who never coded built GC AI after early GPT access
Cecilia Ziniti spent two decades as an in-house lawyer, then left Replit to build software for the job she had been doing. She says GC AI now serves about 2,100 companies.
Pharosyn raises €2.5m to read pharma's competition for it
The London company, founded last year, sells AI competitive intelligence to drug makers' commercial teams. Moonfire led the round.
Startup outbids Google's $10m offer for Spirit Airlines data
Google valued the bankrupt airline's operational records at $10 million. A startup went higher. The number is the story.
Adviser: bolting on AI can cut what a buyer will pay
Itay Sagie argues that copilots, model integrations and third-party AI tools often read to an acquirer as vendor dependency rather than innovation. His test is whether the AI leaves behind an asset nobody else can copy.
Rillet raises $100m in 48 hours after a board meeting
The AI accounting company was not fundraising. It showed investors a quarter in which annualised revenue doubled, and a $1bn valuation followed two days later.
QuantumLight closes $500M second fund, doubling its first
Nik Storonsky's venture firm now has €432 million to test whether software can pick startups better than partners can. Founders pitching it are pitching a screening system called Aleph.
Carpenter turned founder raises $70m for construction AI firm
Sarah Buchner started on Austrian job sites as a teenager. Trunk Tools, the company she founded in 2021, now employs more than 100 people and was valued at $325m last year.
Wordsmith AI adds $14m to a Series B it closed in June
The Edinburgh legal AI firm has bolted a $14m extension onto a round announced two months ago, with Intact Private Capital and FT Ventures joining the register.
Ex-principal took hundreds of meetings to raise $63m
Adeel Khan had no Stanford degree, no Google badge and no business plan. He says he had to make MagicSchool AI's user numbers impossible to argue with instead.