Posted October 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley You've stopped telling your cofounder when something bothers you. Instead, you're just keeping score: the fundraise that didn't close, the meeting where they talked over you in front of the entire team. And you've…
Yinka Ogunbiyi and her co-founder David Afolabi built more than 600 prototypes before developing the HaloBraid hair-braiding machine. Yinka Ogunbiyi and her co-founder David Afolabi won Harvard University's President's Innovation Challenge, earning a $75,000 grand prize for their hair-braiding technology. HaloBraid is…
A caveat remains for newer sign-ups. To counter potential abuse and account resale, Anthropic confirmed that unverified Ultra accounts will retain a provisional five-hour restriction until passing internal verification protocols. The mid-tier Max plan ($100 per month) will continue to operate…
UPDATED 14:00 EDT / OCTOBER 30 2026 Ludo Robotics Inc., a subsidiary of major South Korean video game publisher Krafton Inc., today debuted Ludi 0.2, a robotics artificial intelligence system built to understand people and interact with them in the physical world. Headquartered in Palo…
Estefano Gomez is an editor at Crypto Briefing specializing in blockchain analysis, DeFi, and the intersection of crypto and digital art. He previously served as Editor in Chief at Interesante for over three years, where he covered blockchain technology, NFTs,…
Neuron Industries, an industrial hardware and software company building an AI-native industrial controller, announced a $10 million seed round following its public launch in August. The oversubscribed round was co-led by FCVC and Obvious Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Thin…
This post is AI-assisted. Most "AI receptionist" tutorials stop at a chatbot that talks. A receptionist a dental clinic will actually pay for has to pick up a real phone line, understand messy speech, follow the clinic's rules, book into…
Bengaluru-based Simplismart has raised $14 million in a Series B round led by Dallas Venture Capital, with participation from Nvidia, Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax. The funding values the four-year-old AI infrastructure startup at around $100 million, including the fresh capital. By…
Credit: Instagram / @halo.braid Nigerian-American engineer and entrepreneur Yinka Ogunbiyi has shared a demonstration of HaloBraid, a robotic device designed to help hairstylists complete individual braids up to five times faster. Ogunbiyi shared the demonstration on the HaloBraid Instagram account…
Lightbringer announced that companies can now work with registered patent agents directly inside AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. R&D teams can capture inventions, explore their patent portfolio and respond to attorney feedback in the same AI tools…
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