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TechCrunch reports the insurance startup has landed another round, just weeks after a $106 million B1 raise valued it at $2.6
The startup, founded by three Harvard dropouts, says its chips and memory stack can speed up AI inference without GPUs, drawing major investor support and a huge valuation.

Pakistan is using LEAP 2026 in Riyadh to pursue closer technology cooperation with Saudi Arabia while presenting its startups and digital reform agenda.
Google?s first local office in Pakistan is being framed as a signal of deeper technology investment, with officials pointing to digital skills, AI, startups and IT exports as the next test.

Elon Musk’s tunnel construction startup, the Boring Company, is reported to be discussing fresh funding that could value the business at around $20 billion
Edtech startup Imagi has closed a $4.5 million seed round, backing its push to help students learn how to build with AI-assisted coding tools.

Robotics startup Enigma has emerged from stealth with a seed round of just over $70 million and an unusual public pitch: instead of chasing ever more capable robot hardware, the company wants to solve how ordinary

Two senior engineers are leaving company to launch startup amid fears Google is falling behind in AI race Sir Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind, in a leadership overhaul of the UK-based AI research lab. H
Synthesia has launched Roleplay Sessions, a new enterprise training product that lets employees rehearse workplace conversations with AI avatars that respond, rate performance and generate analytics
Toyota is recalling about 655,000 Camry vehicles worldwide after identifying a startup display fault that can disable important safety indicators.
TechCrunch says a Disrupt 2026 Builders Stage session will focus on how pre-seed founders can raise money with conviction and storytelling before launching a product

In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones
Industry experts told TechCrunch that Kimi K3’s fast improvement is unlikely to be explained by simple distillation from Anthropic’s Fable model alone.
Tech companies are pushing a new generation of smartphones that use artificial intelligence to carry out tasks with voice commands, from ordering food to composing messages, as the industry tests how far “agentic”
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that Pakistan’s progress in developing indigenous autonomous capabilities is an essential component of national defence, as he addressed the opening of the two-day Indus
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested for allegedly using its Grok tool to generate child sexual abuse material, in one of the first cases an AI company has brought against a user.
Pakistan's digital economy turning profitable signals a shift from subsidised growth toward more durable online payment and platform activity.
Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways, pushing the autonomy race deeper into freight rather than passenger cars alone.
AI is reshaping cybersecurity as attackers automate threats and defenders race to deploy faster machine-led protection.

Pakistan has an artificial intelligence policy. It was approved by the Federal Cabinet on 30 July 2025, it runs to six pillars, and roughly a year later most of the companies it governs still could not tell you what it