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That works out to roughly 0.4 stories per week across a 152-day span. The busiest single day carried 3. B Capital is most often covered alongside AI agents, which appears in 3 of these 8 stories. regulation accounts for 2 of the 8 tracked stories, while 6 other categories carry the remainder.
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That works out to roughly 0.4 stories per week across a 152-day span. The busiest single day carried 3. B Capital is most often covered alongside AI agents, which appears in 3 of these 8 stories. regulation accounts for 2 of the 8 tracked stories, while 6 other categories carry the remainder. B Capital appears in 8 tracked Cross-Sector stories published from March 20, 2026 through August 18, 2026. 0% of these stories carry negative sentiment. The tracked stories average 2 original sources each.
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Founded by ex-Amazon AGI scientist Antonio Mallia, Seltz has raised $12.5 million to reinvent web search for AI agents, signaling a new front in the search wars. The round was led by Speedinvest and B Capital.
As SaaS platforms embed AI agents, Seltz's new funding will accelerate development of a search engine that returns machine-readable data, a critical infrastructure upgrade for agent-driven applications.
Seltz, founded by ex-Amazon AGI scientist Antonio Mallia, is building a search engine purpose-built for transformer-based agents, leveraging his PhD in information retrieval. The $12.5 million seed round signals a paradigm shift in AI's access to the web.
Source: Jeremy Kahn · Fortune
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