African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr
"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
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Titans to induct Chris Johnson into Ring of Honor during Week 1 game vs. Jets https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-induct-chris-johnso-ring-of-honor-week-1-game-als
Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/996310/googl
Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/no
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law
Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively surpassing $250B YTD; Nvidia leads the sector in deal volume with a record 59 funding rounds (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/semiconductor…
World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial "super app" in 150 countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/busin…