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Helsing has raised $1.8 billion to scale technologies capable of acting in lethal environments. That capital is earmarked for rapid growth, more people building and deploying systems that make lethal decisions. Helsing’s ethical policies were designed for a smaller company. How will they hold up as it scales?

AI funding has set a new record this year. Between March and May 2026, ten AI companies raised rounds ranging from $11 million to $5 billion. Their founders have been candid about who they hire and who they turn away, what they'd refuse to sell, and what keeps them up at night. Here's what they said.

Halter just reached a $2 billion valuation, a mark only about ten ‘agtech’ companies, the businesses selling technology to farms and ranches, have ever hit. Half of those later went bankrupt, and the sector's funding has fallen 70 percent from its peak. Is Halter is the shake-up agtech needed?

A third of companies have no formal plan for supervising their AI agents. Geordie AI, a London security start-up that monitors what agents do, just raised $30 million to fill that gap.