The biggest conversations in US VC right now
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The biggest conversations in US VC right now Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/us-vc-conversations-ai-anthropic-agents/
UK Sovereign AI Fund in talks to back £500m raise for drug discovery startup Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/uk-sovereign-ai-fund-in-talks-to-back-500m-raise-for-drug-discovery-startup/
‘It’s the modern nuclear arms race’: safety expert Denis Shilov on slowing down AI Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/denis-shilov-white-circle-ai-safety/
Inside London’s weirdest neolab Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/inside-londons-weirdest-neolab/
India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/india-forces-caller-id-apps-to-feed-spam-reports-to-telcos/
A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-startup-that-builds-other-startups-raised-100m-and-is-all-in-on-physical-ai/
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/anthropic-is-operating-a-lab-that-conducts-biology-experiments/
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai/
AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation “It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs,” a GovAI research scholar warns. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/ai-hallucination-nearly-triggers-us-military-operation/
Magentic raises $18M to automate industrial operations with AI agents Magentic, a provider of AI-powered digital workers for industrial companies, has raised $18 million in Series A funding, a year after its launch. The round was led by Felicis, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and The Westly Group.