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Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is targeting an IPO as late as October after confidentially filing with the SEC, with prediction markets pricing a 61% likelihood of an IPO by October 2026 and an 80.5% probabilit…
Anthropic has signed a $9.1 billion agreement with Riot, a Bitcoin mining and AI data center services company, to secure computing power for its AI solutions. The deal aligns with market pricing that suggests increased c…
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion employee tender offer, buying back shares at a valuation of $852 billion, matching its March fundraising round, according to Bloomberg. The move provides liquidity to employees and may s…
A new playbook outlines how solo professionals can build a one-person AI consulting business using Anthropic's Claude Code, emphasizing that businesses pay for outcomes rather than features and that natural language inte…
Stripe data shows AI companies are expanding globally, with the 100 largest reaching 120 markets on average by their third year and drawing 48% of revenue from outside their home markets. Mexico led growth with 264% year…
AI-driven drug discovery has attracted US$60 billion since 2019, with 175 AI-originated programmes entering human trials, yet none have won FDA approval; however, AI-discovered molecules clear Phase I trials at 80-90% ve…
Corma Labs Ltd., a defensive cybersecurity startup founded in 2025 with offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital Operations, with Khosla Ventures and Coatue Mana…
OpenAI completed a tender offer for roughly $7 billion of shares held by current and former employees, using its own money instead of outside investors, Bloomberg reported on August 10th. The transaction kept OpenAI's va…
OpenAI completed a $7 billion share sale, according to CNBC, as the company prepares for a potential initial public offering. The tender offer follows OpenAI's record-breaking $122 billion funding round in March.
OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for an IPO and plans a separate employee share sale at the same $852 billion valuation it set in March, according to The Information, rather than a completed $7 billion buyback. Th…
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, revealed at Startup School 2026 that his personal side project grew to 4.7 million weekly downloads and nearly 3,000 contributors within eight months, nearly breaking him along the…
OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell roughly $7 billion worth of shares in a tender offer, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $852 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The buyback, funded by Ope…
KICK, a new ETF issuer with no verifiable track record, has filed with regulators for AI and space-themed exchange-traded funds, entering a crowded market where at least nine space ETFs have been launched or filed in rec…
The Arena Group, the digital publisher behind TheStreet, Parade, and Men's Journal, is rebranding as Paradium.AI and shifting to an artificial intelligence focus, CEO Paul Edmondson told staff in a memo obtained by Busin…
PeachJam, an AI app builder for creating websites and web apps through chat, is in alpha and aims to make AI-generated software affordable, with co-founder Ani Talakhadze and the author building it on Cloudflare and Hetz…
Venture capitalists at Menlo Ventures, Forerunner, A16z, Verdict Capital, and Premise are betting on five consumer startup categories, including vibe coding social platforms, AI dating apps, and gaming tools, as AI enabl…
Noosphere Labs, a physical AI startup led by former Meta AI research director Kevin Carlberg, has raised approximately $10.25 million, according to an SEC filing submitted Sunday. The Form D, filed August 10th, shows the…
HeyyyyAI, an AI character app startup founded by A Thinking Ape co-founders Wilkins Chung and Kenshi Arasaki, has raised $10.5 million from a single investor. The funding provides the founders, who previously sold their …
Theo Jaffee, a 21-year-old University of Florida dropout, co-founded Monitoring The Situation (MTS), an Andreessen Horowitz-backed media company that streams interviews with AI and tech figures on X, after becoming convi…
Stoa Markets has launched a structured marketplace for new and used AI servers, standardizing the Request for Quote process to bring transparency to GPU hardware pricing, and has already seen over $300 million in RFQs in…