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Mindstone's Rebel platform introduces enterprise AI agent orchestration with shared memory, using a local-first, file-driven architecture to enable autonomous agents to access and contribute to a collective knowledge bas…
Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI released Un-0, an open image-generation model built on simulated coupled oscillators, achieving FID 6.74 on ImageNet 64x64. The release is the first public test of the company's thesis that…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, raised $320 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The startup uses gaming footage from de Witte's clip-sharing platform Medal to train…
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) is expanding into the index business with plans to launch more proprietary benchmarks and related investment products, as traditional market gauges have lagged regional peers durin…
Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller claims his company's BlackHole Galaxy servers can outperform both GPUs and specialized AI hardware, including Nvidia and Cerebras, by solving AI inference as a networking and memory problem. At…
Aurora Innovation, a publicly traded autonomous trucking company, commercialized its Aurora Driver self-driving system for Class 8 trucks in Texas in May 2025. Founded in 2017 by veterans from Google, Uber, and Tesla, th…
Alphabet faces a talent crisis as four senior AI researchers, including Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer, departed for OpenAI and Anthropic within a week, triggering Alphabet's steepest single-d…
Auctor, an AI-native system for software implementations, emerged from stealth in April 2026 with a $20 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital. The New York-based startup, founded in 2025, unifies the full project lifec…
OpenAI is leaning toward a 2027 IPO after CFO Sarah Friar warned the company isn't ready for public markets, citing a $3.7 billion cash burn in Q1 2026 and trillions in infrastructure commitments. The delay reflects inte…
Notion will shut down Notion Mail on September 22, 2025, pivoting from a standalone email inbox to an agent-driven email management system. The company cited that over half of users manage emails without opening the inbo…
Votee AI, led by CEO Pak-Sun Ting, is building sovereign, enterprise-grade AI architecture for underrepresented languages, starting with a native Cantonese model. The company aims to empower billions of underserved globa…
A bipartisan coalition of tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, launched a $500 million initiative called Raise Us to help American workers adapt to AI. Led by former governors Gina …
South Korea's KOSPI index has more than doubled in 2026, driven by domestic retail investors pouring money into semiconductor stocks Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix amid surging AI chip demand. The rally has raised conc…
Attentive, an AI-powered omnichannel marketing platform founded in 2016 in New York, has scaled to $500M+ ARR by 2024, serving thousands of brands with personalized SMS, email, RCS, and push notifications. The company ra…
Patronus AI raised $50 million in Series B funding to build simulation environments that stress-test AI agents before deployment in real enterprise systems. The round was led by Greenfield Partners with participation fro…
Onsemi announced a $7 billion all-stock acquisition of Synaptics, paying a 19% premium to gain its edge computing and connectivity portfolio. The deal expands Onsemi's addressable market by $30 billion and targets $200 m…
Arcwise, a San Francisco-based decision intelligence startup founded in 2022, has raised $1M–$3.4M from Sequoia Capital and Success Venture Partners to build a platform that detects shifts in business metrics and uses tr…
Scaled Cognition raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures on June 25, 2026, valuing the company at $750 million. The startup is commercializing its Agentic Pretrained Transformer (APT) model and ent…
Apex, a Tel Aviv-based startup specializing in AI security and governance, was acquired by Tenable in 2025 for over $105 million. Founded in 2023, the company provides real-time visibility, policy enforcement, and risk r…
Palantir Technologies shares fell 25% in June, hitting a 52-week low of $106.37, as investors question the company's ability to withstand AI disruption. The stock is down 34-36% year-to-date, with Wolfe Research initiati…