Peak XV Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and Southeast Asia, has seen a fresh round of senior departures. These follow other leadership exits over the past year as it pushes ahead with plans to deepen its focus on AI investing and expand its footprint in the U.S., while keeping India as its largest market.
The latest departures stem from an internal disagreement with senior…
Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants
February 3, 2026
What is and isn’t a weed that needs to be eliminated in the field is determined by the eyes of the farmer – and now, increasingly, by a new AI model from Carbon Robotics.
Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which builds the LaserWeeder – a robot fleet that uses lasers to…
Sometimes, you might be sitting on a hot product and not know it until the market demands it.
After launching as a digital business card that doubled as a lead capture tool for sales teams, Birmingham, Alabama-based Linq pivoted a few times before landing on an idea last…
Digital meeting notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies.ai, Fathom, and Granola help record and transcribe online meetings. But for in-person or more versatile options, many people prefer physical recording devices. These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI.
Some of these devices are wearable – pins or pendants with dedicated mics for…
A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains
February 2, 2026
From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m immediately confronted with activity. There’s no reception desk, no…
The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name – again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker, Anthropic, it had briefly rebranded as Moltbot, but has now settled on OpenClaw as its new name.
The latest name change wasn’t prompted by…
Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork
February 2, 2026
Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and transform it into a more general-use tool that non-coders could benefit from. Now Anthropic has launched a new feature within Cowork to make it even more powerful for enterprise users.
Behold, the plug-in.
The idea behind plug-ins is simple: They are designed…
OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch
January 30, 2026
After rapidly hitting the top of the App Store in October, OpenAI’s video-generation app Sora is now struggling. New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer spending, as the early hype about the AI video social network wears off.
Powered…
India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale
January 30, 2026
As AI races into classrooms worldwide, Google is finding that the toughest lessons on how the tech can actually scale are emerging not from Silicon Valley, but from India’s schools.
India has become a proving ground for Google’s education AI amid intensifying competition…
Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling
January 30, 2026
Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps users can now access Gemini hands-free while walking and cycling. The update comes a few months after Google Maps rolled out its Gemini-powered hands-free, conversational driving experience.
The announcement marks Google’s ongoing efforts to plug Gemini into more parts of people’s everyday lives, while shifting Google Maps from static directions to…
