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Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, with CEO Ali Ghodsi claiming that AGI has already arrived, but the key to unlocking its potential lies in context that models currently lack.
Alloy Robotics, a Sydney-founded software maker using AI agents to debug robot fleets, has raised $8M in a funding round led by Square Peg, valuing the company at $80M. The round, announced Thursday, includes participati…
DeepLumen, a startup co-founded by Joy Wu, said on August 13 that its Agentic Page product is live across more than 1,000 merchants and has begun attributing orders from AI discovery, entering commercial rollout with a c…
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday formally released its official V4 Pro model, aiming to regain ground against fast-moving domestic rivals as it expands hiring, computing capacity and fundraisi…
Trunk Tools, a New York software company founded by former carpenter Sarah Buchner, is expanding from document search into connected AI agents for construction bidding, submittals, drawings, and field workflows. The comp…
Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) announced on August 13, 2026, that it will acquire Arize AI, a Berkeley-based AI observability startup, for $915 million in cash and stock. The deal aims to enhance Dynatrace's ability to monitor and…
Arize AI, the AI observability platform co-founded by Jason Lopatecki and Aparna Dhinakaran, announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Dynatrace, a software intelligence company, to accelerate its mission of mak…
A new analysis from venture capital firm a16z outlines two primary go-to-market strategies for AI startups: the lighthouse approach, which relies on winning a small number of high-profile customers to drive adoption, and…
Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for nearly $6 billion, according to Bloomberg and Reuters, which would be the largest acquisition for the company behind the Claude chatbot. The deal, if c…
Anthropic is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for roughly $6 billion, according to Bloomberg. Decart's optimization engine, DOS, could help Anthropic reduce compute costs, which currently include $1.25 billion per m…
Business Insider asked three sets of AI startup cofounders about the early agreements that led to successful partnerships, and they shared key elements of their ideal 'cofounder prenup.' David Emelianov, cofounder of Tri…
Pratyush Choudhury, co-founder of Activate AI, India's first VC fund dedicated exclusively to AI, consumes 300 to 500 million tokens a day and spends a few hundred to a few thousand dollars daily on frontier AI models to…
Anthropic will stage an IPO in October at a predicted valuation of $2 trillion, making it the largest public offering ever, surpassing SpaceX, according to the Financial Times. Investors told the paper the AI lab's annua…
Thrive Holdings, the enterprise-AI holding company spun out of Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital, raised $2 billion at a reported $12 billion valuation from investors including SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter …
A bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun district, the AGI Bar, offers customers free access to the DeepSeek V4 Flash AI model via two Nvidia supercomputers, removing cost barriers for developers and start-ups. The venue, which t…
AI News Digest for Aug 13 reports 30 AI stories, including Anthropic's potential $6 billion acquisition of Decart, Lovable's $13.3 billion valuation after a $400M raise, and Gemini reaching 1 billion users faster than an…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said founders should spend heavily on AI agents, even up to $100,000 a year, to gain a competitive edge, calling it 'tokenmaxxing' and claiming it lets them 'live in 2028.' Tan's advice contras…
DeepSeek, Alibaba, and xAI all shipped new frontier models on August 13, 2026: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (1.6T MoE, 49B active, 1M context, priced at $0.435/$0.87 per million tokens), Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (open weights without v…
Jeff Dean, a prominent figure in AI research, is reportedly seeking a $10 billion valuation for his new startup, a figure that has sparked debate about whether it is justified in the current market. Skeptics argue that m…
RunSnack, a peer-to-peer GPU sharing platform, lets users rent or share GPUs via a single link, with no accounts, cloud, or platform fees. The tool, built for quick ML tasks, uses sandboxed Docker containers and WebRTC f…