Samsung Electronics Co. approved a record 2026 shareholder return plan worth 90 trillion to 110 trillion won ($80 billion), the largest ever by a Korean company, driven by the AI memory boom. The plan…
Prevalent AI, a London company that consolidates fragmented enterprise data into a sovereign knowledge graph, announced a $22 million growth investment from Integrity Growth Partners, its first primar…
River AI, a two-month-old startup founded by former xAI engineer Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion on August 11, 2026, in one of the largest early-stage funding rounds in AI history, led by General…
River AI, founded by Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, less than four months after incorporation. The round also included Nvidia, AMD V…
South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix shares rallied more than 8% after a local media report that Singapore's Temasek plans to invest directly in the two firms, boosting optimism af…
River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source AI models, has raised $1.1 billion in Series A funding led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia Corp., …
River AI, a two-month-old AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AM…
Igor Babuschkin's River AI has raised $1.1 billion in a combined seed and Series A round, announced August 11 and led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with strategic investments from Nvidia and AMD Ven…
Singapore's sovereign wealth funds Temasek and GIC announced in July they will increase investments in artificial intelligence, while the Monetary Authority of Singapore expressed caution about the ri…
Chinese startups raised over $16 billion in Q1 2026, with robotics startups alone pulling in $5.6 billion through 176 deals by mid-May, surpassing all of 2025, as investors shift focus to world models…
Zhongji Innolight raised HK$53.41 billion ($6.81 billion) in Hong Kong's largest IPO since Alibaba's 2019 secondary listing, but shares fell as much as 9.4% on their July 30 debut, according to the Fi…
Boson AI founder Alex Smola, a former Amazon distinguished scientist, claims his startup's Higgs RealTime speech-to-speech model is one-tenth the cost of rivals like OpenAI and Meta, aiming to undercu…
Advances in artificial intelligence could dramatically reduce the energy demands of data centers, according to Temasek. Russell Tham, head of emerging technologies at Temasek Global Investments, said …
Singapore's Temasek plans to increase its AI investments from 6% to 15% of its portfolio by 2031, targeting sectors like energy, semiconductors, and cloud services. The sovereign wealth fund, with ove…
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek plans to increase its AI investment exposure from 6% to 15% of its $400 billion portfolio by 2031, targeting areas including energy, data centers, semiconduct…
Temasek International CIO Rohit Sipahimalani warned that surging US capital expenditure, particularly in AI infrastructure, could pose risks to global markets. The warning came as Temasek reported a r…
SambaNova, an AI chip startup, raised fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation, up from roughly $2 billion earlier this year, as investors race to back alternatives to Nvidia. The company builds chip…
Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek added $7.7 billion in direct China investments in fiscal 2025, pushing its total portfolio to a record $324 billion. The fund is tripling down on AI, targeting …
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek increased its investment in China by $7.7 billion, the largest rise in five years, with a focus on artificial intelligence infrastructure and value-chain inve…
Chinese self-driving software firm Momenta opened its Hong Kong IPO on Monday, seeking up to $752 million to fund AI research and robotaxi development. The GM-backed company, valued at nearly $9 billi…