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AI Lab NeoCognition Exits Stealth With $40M Seed to Build Self-Learning Agents

Co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst, with Vista Equity, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, and Databricks' Ion Stoica. CEO Yu Su's thesis: build generalist agents that specialize on the job.

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Nava Raises $8.3M Seed Co-Led by Polychain and Archetype to Put Guardrails on AI Payment Agents

Two of crypto's sharpest VCs back an infra play for the 'agentic commerce' thesis — trust rails so autonomous agents can spend without going off the rails.

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OpenGradient OPG Lands on Binance Wallet Today — Verifiable AI Chain Raises $9.5M Before TGE

a16z crypto and Coinbase Ventures back the verifiable-inference project. 10% of supply unlocks at TGE; trading opens 11:00 UTC.

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Cobo Ships Agentic Wallet — 80+ Chains, Claude MCP Hooked In, Keys Stay Split

Singapore custody veteran Cobo launches an MPC-backed wallet that lets AI agents trade and pay on-chain without ever holding a full private key.

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The Agentic Wallet Race Is On: Cobo Launches AI-Native Wallet for 80+ Chains

Cobo just launched an AI-native wallet supporting 80+ blockchains, escalating an agentic wallet race that Coinbase opened in February. Inside the three launches in 70 days that built the production stack for autonomous on-chain AI — and the security gap nobody has solved.

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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7: What It Means for Web3 Developers and AI Agent Projects

Anthropic's new Claude Opus 4.7 delivers stronger agentic coding, better self-verification, and new cost-control tools — at the same price as Opus 4.6. Here's what it means for Web3 teams running AI agents.