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Keye, a New York-based AI startup founded in 2024, launched an AI-powered due diligence platform that automates data extraction and analysis from virtual data rooms for private equity investors. The company raised over $…
Anthropic has hired Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to lead its expansion across Europe and Africa, effective August 25, 2026. The move is part of Anthropic's strategy to triple its EMEA workforce and challenge O…
Mirendil raised a $200M seed round to build a platform that enables engineers and researchers outside major AI labs to conduct frontier AI research and development. The company aims to democratize AI by providing open-so…
Sail Research raised $80 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the startup at $450 million. The company builds infrastructure for long-horizon AI agents, claiming up to …
Netris, a Santa Clara-based network automation startup, raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to automate networking for AI data centers. The company reported 800% ARR growth and plans to expa…
Besimple AI (YC P25), a startup building data and benchmark infrastructure for voice AI, is hiring a Strategic Projects Lead — Audio Data. The role involves owning complex audio data projects end-to-end, working with fro…
The generative AI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months, with an annualized revenue run rate exceeding $175 billion, according to a new bottom-up, deduplicated report from Exponential View. …
General Intuition, an AI research lab spun out of Medal, raised $320 million at a $2 billion valuation to train AI models using gameplay data. The funding, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, will scale the company's …
SpaceX filed plans with the FCC to deploy up to 1 million AI satellites in low Earth orbit, aiming to provide 100 GW of AI compute power by 2030. The combined SpaceX-xAI entity, valued at $1.25 trillion, plans to launch …
General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to develop AI agents trained on video game footage that can operate in the real world. The startup uses action labels from hundreds of millions of hours o…
Immunai announced a discovery collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim valued at up to $15 million through 2027. The partnership will apply Immunai's single-cell AI platform to identify T-cell targets for immuno-oncology …
Goldman Sachs analyst Rich Privorotsky projects hyperscaler capital expenditures could reach $765 billion by 2026 and cumulative AI infrastructure spending $7.6 trillion by 2031, driven by strong demand for high-bandwidt…
Unconventional AI, led by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, released its first model Un0, an image-generation system built on a novel oscillator-based computer architecture that promises to reduce AI inference power…
Salahodeen Abdul-Kafi left his $450,000 tech job at companies including Microsoft and Google to open Kafi BBQ, a halal barbecue restaurant in Irving, Texas. The restaurant generated over $2 million in revenue in its firs…
Sail Research has raised $80 million in seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation to develop AI inference infrastructure optimized for agents. The startup claims its engine can serve tokens at up to 10 times …
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to train AI agents on action-labeled gameplay data from Medal. The round was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Gene…
Micron Technology announced 16 multi-year strategic agreements for AI-optimized memory chips on June 24, with customers providing $22 billion in cash deposits and committing to roughly $100 billion in minimum revenue thr…
Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI, under its global brand Z.AI, launched the open-weight GLM-5.2 model with up to 753 billion parameters, rivaling top closed models from Anthropic and OpenAI at roughly one-tenth the cost. The mode…
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek announced plans to at least double the size of every department, opening 33 positions across seven categories as it pursues artificial general intelligence. The company said it wants newcomers to…
Marketing and media leaders gathered at Cannes Lions to discuss trends in AI, experiential marketing, and brand partnerships. Disney's Rita Ferro and Target's Michelle Mesenburg highlighted the value of collaborative con…