The meeting note-taker market is a crowded space. Just in the last few weeks, dictation app Wispr launched its own note-taker and scheduling app, and Calendly added a similar tool to its stack. Dedicated meeting note-takers like Granola, Read AI, and Fireflies have raised millions of dollars in funding.
Likely in reaction to the intensifying competition, Y Combinator-backed Circleback is…
At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
September 1, 2026
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it. No matter where you were during the annual Nordic conference, from onstage to cocktail hours and…
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
August 31, 2026
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only source for state-of-the-art GPUs, which became immensely profitable as the industry scaled out. In the last few years, hyperscalers like…
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks.
Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face is at the center of the ecosystem of developers building and deploying LLMs that aren’t owned by…
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was illegal.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said in her ruling that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s labeling of Anthropic as a…
In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case…
Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into everything from pendants and rings to credit-card-sized pucks and wristbands. Still, despite the variety of devices, only a few companies have been able to stand out.
One of these companies is Plaud, which has over 2.5 million people using its…
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
August 28, 2026
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which first reported over the weekend that Hugging Face was fielding takeover interest, reported Wednesday night…
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
August 27, 2026
Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, but only around 20% of those with diagnosed hearing loss seek treatment. Legato, a new hearing tech company, aims to close that gap.
The startup is emerging from stealth on Wednesday with $12 million…
As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startup Runable is betting the next opportunity lies in what comes after: finding customers and helping businesses grow. The startup has raised $21 million to expand in that direction.
The Series A was co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, with existing investors Together Fund and…
