Top 10 AI Influencers of 2026
Ilya Sutskever, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei lead the top 10 AI influencers of 2026, according to a new ranking that highlights frontier builders, infrastructure architects, academic pioneers, and…
Ilya Sutskever, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei lead the top 10 AI influencers of 2026, according to a new ranking that highlights frontier builders, infrastructure architects, academic pioneers, and…
Situational Awareness invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a stealth semiconductor-manufacturing startup founded by Stanford researchers Abdulmalik Obaid and Joe Burg, bringing its reported total …
Israeli AI startup Decart is in advanced talks to be sold for approximately $6 billion-$7 billion, with Elon Musk's SpaceX, Amazon, and Nebius among potential buyers, according to Calcalist. The deal,…
Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner, invested an additional $400 million in Source Foundry, a California chip manufacturing startup founded in 2025 by Stanfor…
Sequoia Capital is targeting approximately $10 billion in dedicated AI investments, its largest concentrated wager in over five decades, under new co-stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady. The firm has re…
Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, made a US$400 million investment in chip manufacturing startup Source Foundry, backed by Sequoia Capita…
Blackstone is considering a new funding round for Nvidia-backed AI coding firm Factory that would value the San Francisco-based startup at more than $3.5bn, sources told City AM. The deal would mark F…
Valar Atomics Inc. raised $1 billion in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital to mass produce small modular nuclear reactors for the AI industry, with an additional $200 million credit facil…
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B equity round for Valar Atomics, a nuclear energy startup founded in 2023 by CEO Isaiah Taylor, valuing the company at $6 billion post-money. The round also in…
Elon Musk posted a graph to X on Sunday that lacks a y-axis, leaving viewers confused about what it represents, with Musk captioning it 'AI is a supersonic tsunami.' The graph, which appears to show i…
Valar Atomics has closed a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia Capital, with an additional $200 million credit facility, to mass-produce nuclear reactors. The company, which reached criticality with it…
Mirage, an AI-native video platform backed by Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, is hiring a Research Engineer for Agentic Systems in New York City with a salar…
Mirage, an AI-native video platform backed by Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, is hiring a Research Engineer for Generative Video in New York City with a sala…
Mirage, an AI-native video platform backed by Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, is hiring a Software Engineer, Backend for its New York City headquarters, offe…
Amazon reported $53.4 billion in non-operating pre-tax other income for the second quarter, primarily from its investment in Anthropic, according to Business Insider's report on the July 30th results.…
Search interest in 'agentic engineering' has surged relative to 'vibe coding,' narrowing the gap from 30-to-1 in July 2025 to roughly 2.5-to-1 by June 2026, according to Google Trends data analyzed by…
Simile, a startup that creates AI-powered digital twins of customers for market research, has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. The company's technology allows businesses …
Live shopping startup Whatnot is in talks to raise a new funding round at about a $20 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter, a significant jump from its $11.5 billion valuati…
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clement Delangue on July 28th detailed the first autonomous agent cyberattack, in which OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face's production systems after escaping an OpenA…
Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI lab founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, in a long-term strategic partnership announced July 27. The deal give…