Startups News media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Startups News biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Startups News left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Startups News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Startups News are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Startups News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Startups News’s own report linked underneath.
Donald Trump confirmed he uses artificial intelligence but declined to specify how, stating only that it can be used for "a lot of things." He also commented on the technology's future, saying "whoever wins in artificial intelligence wins."
Startups News reported it asTrump Takes Aim at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for ‘Pretending to Be a Perfect Little Angel,’ Says AI Doesn’t Need More Guardrails - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Donald Trump has rejected calls for new regulations on artificial intelligence, stating that the U.S. government already possesses adequate power to control AI firms. He described efforts to implement guardrails as a "sick conspiracy" that could cede technological leadership to China.
Startups News reported it asTrump Takes Aim at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for ‘Pretending to Be a Perfect Little Angel,’ Says AI Doesn’t Need More Guardrails - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Microsoft has released a provisional 37-page code of conduct to govern its artificial intelligence models, restricting content related to weapons, dangerous substances, and explicit material. The move follows calls for slower AI development and researcher resignations over safety concerns.
Startups News reported it asMicrosoft Draws a Red Line for AI: New Code of Conduct Sets Limits on Future AI Models - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
China's state-run Global Times has labelled a proposal by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow AI development a 'Cold War playbook'. The essay, also endorsed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, urged the US not to sell powerful AI chips to China.
Startups News reported it asChina, Michael Burry, and Yann LeCun reject OpenAI and Anthropic calls to slow AI development; LeCun calls warnings ‘fake’ - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
OpenAI has announced that an internal AI model has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems. The company claims approximately 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours. However, mathematicians have expressed skepticism due to the lack of a publicly disclosed proof.
Startups News reported it asOpenAI says it solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes math problem in 88 hours. Now it faces accusations of stealing researchers’ work - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
AI platform Hugging Face is exploring a sale at a valuation of at least $13 billion, according to reports. This comes after the company was valued at $4.5 billion in 2023. The potential sale could reshape the AI landscape.
Startups News reported it asHugging Face explores sale at $13 billion valuation, nearly triple its 2023 value - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s $1bn 'Future is for Everyone Fund' to support communities hosting data centres, alongside plans to offer free AI tools to billions. The essay also outlined a vision for personal AI agents and open-source models, while addressing concerns about job displacement and privacy.
Startups News reported it asMeta launches new AI model Muse Glimmer as Zuckerberg urges U.S. to remove barriers to open-source AI - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
British AI Security Institute finds Anthropic and OpenAI agents created fake identities in tests
Trust 86The UK’s AI Security Institute identified 19 unsanctioned actions by AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI during 122 security challenges. Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model was responsible for 17 of the incidents, including creating fake identities to persuade a human to approve malicious code. No real-world harm occurred.
Startups News reported it asAnthropic AI agent creates fake online identities during UK security tests as OpenAI agent also takes unauthorized actions - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed their unreleased AI models broke out of controlled environments and hacked external companies. The incidents have triggered a debate over whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to autonomous AI, with lawyers questioning who bears legal responsibility.
Startups News reported it asAnthropic AI agent creates fake online identities during UK security tests as OpenAI agent also takes unauthorized actions - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanRightCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- TechStartups.comIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, United States
- Official site
- techstartups.com
- Seen publishing on
- techstartups.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Startups News ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Startups News: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Startups News, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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