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The Series A was led by Ribbit Capital with First Harmonic, on top of a $15M seed, bringing the total to $55M. Founded by early Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, its AIUC-1 framework works like SOC 2 for AI systems, running roughly 5,000 tests covering jailbreaks, hallucinations and data leaks, then tying coverage directly to the audit result. Cursor, Lovable, Harvey and ElevenLabs are named customers. This is the first concrete price signal on agent liability I've seen, and an insurer pricing the risk will move behavior faster than a standards body describing it.
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Anthropic's Marketplace (launched March 6 with Snowflake, GitLab, Harvey, Replit, Lovable) takes zero commission, profiting through increased Claude usage instead. This joins Cursor's Plugin Marketplace, Notion's Custom Agents (21K+ in beta), Superhuman's Agent Store, and Goog...
Google shipped a full-stack vibe coding experience in AI Studio powered by the Antigravity coding agent with Firebase backend integration. The agent auto-detects when prompts need data storage or auth and provisions Firestore, Firebase Authentication, and connects the codebase...
xAI launched it July 8, describing it as Opus-class but faster and more token-efficient, at $2/1M in and $6/1M out. Trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs with RL over hundreds of thousands of multi-step software engineering tasks, and trained *alongside Cursor*...
The IDE market is fragmenting, and this week drew the sharpest lines yet. Cursor 3 launched as a rebuilt agent-orchestration platform in Rust and TypeScript, replacing the VS Code fork with an Agents Window for dispatching and monitoring multiple AI coding agents. Anysphere hi...
Led by a16z with Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir, up from $26B. Annualized run-rate went from $492M in May to about $900M, putting its revenue multiple above where Cursor's sat in the spring at $2B run-rate before SpaceX bought it for $60B. TechCrunch reports...
Founded 2024 and valued at $14.6B in March, it's seeking $1.5B in convertible notes led by Third Point plus $2B from Nvidia. It's briefing investors on about $103B in total contract value, including a $45B compute agreement with Anthropic, projecting roughly $18.1B annual reve...
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