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.

Three vertical AI founders turned years of work experience into $42 million of funding. But what happens when AI removes the jobs that experience comes from?

McKinsey spent the last year figuring out what an agentic organisation should look like on paper. AI coding start-up Cognition is already ahead of the game IRL.

500 legal AI startups launched around the same time as Legora in 2023. Legora is now worth $5.6 billion. What's different about them?

Anduril, Sierra, and Halter are building very different companies. The best AI companies don’t copy each other. Their mission drives how they work.

Three governments backed three similar AI moves in the same eight weeks. Here's the story behind the headlines.

Cohere shareholders will own 90 percent of the combined company, but Aleph Alpha's will own 10. The press conference called it a partnership between equals. Why?

Cognition has 15 engineers managing roughly 75 working AI agents. By early 2026, Wu said his engineers had stopped writing code altogether. Most diligence processes cannot capture that pace of change.

Change is a skill. It's something you can get better at, just like anything else. One thing I noticed about the best leaders I've worked with is that they can "read a room." They sense when to move forward with change and when it's wiser to stay put.