2026-08-19
Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger
Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillet’s third raise in 14 months. The backers are a roll-call of AI investors. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-19
Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns a piece of the buyer
Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them. The Swedish electric-trucking firm said on Tuesday it will deploy the 500 electric big rigs for Amazon and other customers. It called the order the largest Tesla Semi deployment in the world to date. Einride announced […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-19
Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI
Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it began asking in 2021, with 73% expecting fewer jobs. A European Commission survey found displacement fears highest among younger, lower-income and less-educated workers. Americans under 30 have changed their minds about AI. For the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next We [...]
2026-08-19
Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter
OpenAI grew more slowly than Anthropic last quarter, and for the first time its rival’s sales came in higher. OpenAI told investors its revenue rose 18 percent from the first quarter to the second, to $6.7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported. Its losses deepened over the same stretch. Berber Jin and Corrie Driebusch wrote that […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-19
Forget big donors — Tor Project proved a crowd of small givers can bankroll internet freedom and raise over $200K
The Tor Project's first participatory funding campaign raised over $200,000 for internet freedom tools, using quadratic funding to let community support, not wallet size, decide where the money went. [...]