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Cognition, the AI coding company led by CEO Scott Wu, is in early talks with investors about a financing that could value it at $40 billion or more, Bloomberg reported on August 11. The proposed valuation would be roughl…
Manus, the AI agent platform, announced on August 11, 2026, that it will return to operating as an independent company after being acquired and spun out within months. The transition will impact some user accounts, highl…
Bitcoin miner Bitdeer Technologies Group filed a prospectus supplement on Aug. 10 to sell up to $1 billion in Class A shares under its at-the-market program, potentially diluting existing shareholders by up to 28.8% at t…
Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has proposed amendments to unify land parcels at Ayer Rajah Crescent under a single business park zoning with a gross plot ratio (GPR) of 2.5, as part of the rejuvenation o…
Reed Jobs, son of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, said on the Sabrina Halper Show that Silicon Valley's 'energy' has moved to San Francisco, citing OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chai Discovery, and attributing the shift to pandemic…
Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that could boost its valuation by more than 50% to at least $40 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The coding startup, which …
Riot Platforms has signed a 20-year lease to provide 191 megawatts of computing capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, bitcoin mining campus to an unnamed artificial intelligence company, expecting to generate roughly $9.1 bil…
Five experts warn that the current AI investment boom could end in a bust, drawing parallels to historical bubbles like the 1897 bicycle frenzy, where three-quarters of Birmingham's bicycle companies went bankrupt within…
A year into his undergraduate studies, a student is considering dropping out to focus on AI safety work, citing short timelines for transformative AI and the belief that academia is underprepared for a post-AGI world. He…
Viktor, an AI employee platform launched in February 2026, reached a $29M annualized run rate by August and raised a $75M Series A led by Accel in May 2026, the largest Polish Series A on record. The platform, founded by…
MicroRefrigeration, a Gilroy, California-based startup founded by manufacturing executive Nick Littleton, has raised $4.07 million of a $4.5 million target from seven accredited investors for its AI chip cooling technolo…
Junyang Lin, former technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen model family, launched Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai on Tuesday to research AI agents operating across software and the physical world. HSG and Gaorong Ventures co-led th…
River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source AI models, has raised $1.1 billion in Series A funding led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia Corp., AMD Ventures, Y Comb…
Accel has raised $550 million for India in a few weeks, signaling a major bet on the region's AI-driven startup ecosystem. With over $350 million remaining from its previous fund, Accel now has nearly $1 billion earmarke…
CoreWeave raised its fiscal year 2026 revenue guidance to $12.4 billion-$13.2 billion, reporting Q1 2026 revenue of $2.078 billion, a 112% year-over-year increase from $982 million, and a contracted backlog of $99.4 bill…
Chai Discovery, a San Francisco-based biotech startup, released Chai-3, a generative AI model for molecular design that doubles the success rate of its predecessor in creating therapeutic antibodies, achieving about 50% …
Accel closed an oversubscribed $550 million India fund within weeks, 19 months after its previous $650 million India fund, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort. The firm plans to begin deployin…
Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments, including $1.35 billion for a global expansion fund, $80…
Chai Discovery, an OpenAI-backed AI drug development startup valued at $4 billion, is at the center of a shift in the pharmaceutical industry as major AI tools deals were announced at the JPMorgan healthcare conference i…
Lumilens emerged from stealth on August 6 with more than $700 million in new financing, bringing total funding above $900 million at a $5.51 billion valuation. The San Jose startup, founded in 2024 by former Aruba CTO An…