Bloomberg found that Phia, the AI shopping app founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, was hijacking other retailers' affiliate commissions through a practice called cookie stuffing. The browser ex…
Phoebe Gates, daughter of Bill Gates, co-founded shopping app Phia which was accused of using 'cookie stuffing' to fraudulently claim affiliate commissions. The AI-powered browser extension allegedly …
Poetic, an enterprise automation startup formerly known as Forge, raised $50 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from OpenAI. The company…
Engram Lab, a 13-employee AI startup, posted a satirical Initial Public Offering announcement on X, prompting a congratulatory response from the New York Stock Exchange despite no actual listing. The …
Mirendil, an a16z-backed startup, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to develop AI capable of recursive self-improvement. The company aims to bridge the gap between scientif…
Mirendil, a San Francisco AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, raised $200 million in a seed round at a $1 billion valuation co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with NVIDI…
Arena, the UC Berkeley-born AI evaluation platform behind the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, tripled its annualized revenue from $30M to $100M in six months, but its business model of charging AI companie…
Mirendil, a startup founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to build a self-improving AI platform. The c…
Sail Research raised $80 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the startup at $450 million. The company builds infrastructure for long-horizon AI age…
Sail Research has raised $80 million in seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation to develop AI inference infrastructure optimized for agents. The startup claims its engine can serve token…
Sail Research raised $80 million across seed and Series A rounds to build inference infrastructure for AI agents that run for hours across thousands of simultaneous tasks. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, t…
Sail Research, a startup founded by former Apple engineer Neil Movva, launched from stealth with $80 million in seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation. The company is building an AI inf…
Sail Research, founded by Neil Movva and Samir Menon, announced a Series A investment from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, and Sequoia for its asynchronous inference platform that reduces costs by up to 6x…
Mirendil, an AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in advanced discussions for a $175 million funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins at a $1 billion valuation…
Sail, an infrastructure startup for long-horizon AI agents, announced an $80M seed and Series A funding round led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins. The company builds inference servers and sandboxes opt…
Defense tech startups have raised $14.6 billion in venture capital through May 2026, surpassing 2025's full-year record, driven by AI advancements and Pentagon support. Major deals include Anduril's $…
CuspAI, a two-year-old materials discovery startup, is raising $400 million at a $2.6 billion valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos's family office and Kleiner Perkins. The round, reported by …
Jeff Bezos is backing CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, in a funding round that values the company at $2.6bn. The round, led by Bezos Expeditions and Klein…
The Iran-USA war escalates as President Trump threatens strikes on Kharg Island, risking oil supply disruption and higher prices. The conflict threatens a critical IPO and adds macroeconomic pressure …
Stord raised $250 million in Series F funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund and others, to expand its "physical intelligence" …