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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…
Neurometric AI launched an automated token engineering platform and raised $4 million in a pre-seed round from investors including Betaworks, ex/ante, and Jason Calacanis. The platform optimizes AI model calls, reducing …
Michael Burry, the 'Big Short' investor, maintains a bearish short position on Palantir Technologies as of late June 2026, despite social media rumors of a closure. Burry's put options, first disclosed in September 2025,…
OpenAI is delaying its initial public offering until 2027 due to market uncertainties, unmet revenue targets, and significant spending on data centers, according to the New York Times. The company, known for ChatGPT, had…
Casimir Agossou, a foreign entrepreneur from Benin, founded Acafo, an AI-based platform to help international job seekers navigate Korea's competitive employment landscape, drawing from his own decade of experience study…
The European Commission has selected Milan-based startup Domyn to lead the EUROPA consortium, tasked with building an open-source frontier AI model exceeding 400 billion parameters in all 24 EU languages within a year. T…
Patronus AI, a startup founded by former Meta AI researchers, raised $50 million in Series B funding to build simulated digital environments that stress-test AI agents. The company's revenue grew 15-fold over the past ye…
Anterior, a clinician-led AI platform for health plan administration, raised $40 million in February 2026, bringing total funding to $64 million. The company's AI automates prior authorization and payment integrity workf…
Italian startup Domyn plans to launch an open-source frontier AI model exceeding 400 billion parameters within a year, aiming to boost Europe's AI sovereignty. The Milan-based company, formerly iGenius, targets regulated…
Airtop, an AI agent platform founded in 2020, automates sales and marketing workflows by enabling users to build code-first agents that interact with websites and services. The company has raised approximately $38.8M–$43…
Qualcomm unveiled a line of AI data center components and servers at its investor day, nearly doubling its fiscal 2029 non-handset revenue projection to $40 billion as it pivots from a smartphone chip designer to a data …
Meta hired Dawn Song, Bo Li and Sanmi Koyejo, founders of AI security startup Virtue AI, to join its Superintelligence Labs. The move brings academic AI safety experts into Meta's core AI organization as the company scal…
Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, citing that AI agents have made traditional email inboxes redundant for most users. More than half of Notion Mail users manage email without opening their inbox, as AI…
Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek and Alibaba have rapidly closed the performance gap with US rivals, capturing over 50% of global open-source downloads and 30% of AI model usage by early 2026, putting pricing …
Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, 2025, after more than half of its users shifted to managing email through AI agents instead of opening their inbox. The AI-enhanced email client, launched in April 202…
Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC) surged to 13% of the global NAND flash market in Q1 2026, tying with SanDisk and Micron, driven by AI-fueled demand and nearly 445% year-over-year revenue growth. The Chines…
Applied Digital signed two 15-year leases with a US hyperscaler for the Polaris Forge 3 and Delta Forge 2 data center campuses, worth a combined $12.7 billion in base contracted revenue. The company now has $36 billion i…
Plansera AI, a new tool by Sweet Bolt LLC, generates E-2 visa business plans for a flat $100 fee, using AI to interview clients, analyze documents, and produce submission-ready PDFs and Word files. The service checks eli…