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Anthropic, the AI company founded by Dario Amodei, is reportedly valued at $2 trillion, a figure that raises concerns about a potential AI bubble. The valuation comes amid soaring costs for AI development, competition fr…
Jeff Dean, former Google AI leader, raised $1 billion in seed funding for Discovery Loop at a $10 billion valuation to automate scientific discovery. The company aims to build a generalized system that performs the entir…
ClearJet raised $25 million in growth equity led by Edison Partners on August 12, 2026, to expand its parcel logistics network and AI-powered platform, bringing total funding to over $40 million. The Austin-based company…
Venture capital investment in social media startups is rebounding in 2026, with PitchBook data showing more than 50 deals totaling $355 million as of July 21, already surpassing 2025's total of $330 million across 97 dea…
CoreWeave, a former bitcoin miner turned neocloud, reported Q2 2026 revenue of $2.58 billion, up 2.1X year-over-year, with a net loss of $626 million and $6.41 billion in cash, while amassing a $104.2 billion revenue bac…
Anthropic has filed confidentially for an IPO that could exceed a $2 trillion valuation, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI. Cami Clark, founder of a 'revolutionary porn company' who sought investment from J…
Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang announced a $500 billion initiative with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Blackstone Inc., Apollo Global Management Inc., KKR & Co., BlackRock Inc., and Brookfield to finance AI computing deals, ai…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax's H3, released on the same day two weeks ago, have propelled China to dominate the AI video race, with nine of the top 10 text-to-video systems on Artificial Analysis now made in Chin…
Magic Find Ventures, a venture capital fund co-founded by Fangda Wan and Shao Yun, has raised $30 million toward a $50 million target for its first fund, Magic Find Ventures I, to invest $500,000 to $2 million in pre-see…
Thrive Capital, led by Joshua Kushner, raised $2 billion for Thrive Holdings at a $12 billion valuation and agreed with Bob Iger to buy Mark Walter's 80% stake in the Los Angeles Lakers, marking the firm's expansion into…
SpaceX closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding assistant built by Anysphere, on August 14, 2026, integrating the team into its SpaceXAI division. The deal, which makes Cursor's four co-found…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar is conducting investor meetings as the company accelerates toward an IPO, following its confidential SEC filing in June 2026 and a record private funding round of $120B-$122B at a valuation of $852…
French startup Kog claims its software can deliver 30x faster LLM inference on standard datacenter GPUs, demoing 3,000 tokens per second on a 2-billion-parameter model using AMD MI300X and NVIDIA H200 chips. CEO Gaël Del…
OpenAI appointed Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer, less than a year after Denise Dresser took the role, amid ongoing C-suite turnover. The company projects an annual revenue run rate of $40 billion, according to Bloom…
HeartFlow (HTFL) stock broke out Friday after the San Francisco-based company reported a second-quarter beat and raised its full-year guidance by an 'outsized' amount. The AI-driven coronary artery disease diagnostic com…
Cursor, the AI code editor developed by Anysphere, has been officially acquired by SpaceXAI, according to a16z. The acquisition positions the combined team to dominate the AI coding market, which a16z estimates is only 1…
Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, alongside a 6,500-word manifesto from CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be 'for everyone,' but the hosts of TechCrunch…
SpaceXAI completed its acquisition of Cursor on August 14, following the release of Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 models. The deal, initially inked in April, makes Cursor a part of SpaceXAI, which also absorbed xAI in February.
OpenAI's failure to maintain its non-profit mission lock after the removal of Sam Altman has prompted a LessWrong user to propose a new commercial venture, Prealign, aimed at solving value generalisation and AI alignment…
Cursor has been officially acquired by SpaceX, completing a process that began in April when Cursor partnered with SpaceXAI to accelerate model training. The acquisition gives Cursor access to the largest fleet of GPUs i…