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Situational Awareness invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a stealth semiconductor-manufacturing startup founded by Stanford researchers Abdulmalik Obaid and Joe Burg, bringing its reported total investment to $500 m…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations, with founder Ahmed Beshry joining OpenAI's product team to work on ChatGPT. The deal closed earl…
Faye, a travel protection platform, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by venture capital firm Madrona, with participation from BRM, Portage, F2 Venture Capital, Viola Ventures, and Lumir Ventures, bringing i…
Amir Elaguizy, a 42-year-old serial entrepreneur who sold his first company to Zynga in 2011, says his age is an advantage in the AI startup boom, citing his decades-long familiarity with AI and a 'vibe shift' among olde…
Job postings for forward-deployed engineers in April were up over 5,000% compared to last year, according to Indeed data, as companies race to adopt AI. Matt Ward, Cursor's head of talent, said on the 'People by WTF' pod…
SpaceX is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion to $7 billion, according to Calcalist, a deal that would give Elon Musk's company control over software that optimizes AI hardware efficienc…
AMD has acquired Canadian AI chip startup Taalas to integrate its technology into AMD Instinct GPUs for more efficient inference workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. Taalas, founded in August 2023 by Ljubisa Ba…
Rogo, an AI startup for financial firms founded in 2021 by former investment bankers from Lazard and JPMorgan, has reached a $2 billion valuation after its Series D round in April and now counts over 300 clients includin…
A wave of startups is developing alternatives to the transformer architecture that underpins all major large language models, aiming to overcome its high computational costs and limited context windows. Justin Dangel, co…
Global venture funding hit a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217 billion (43%), and 72% of US cyber deals through May 2026 involved AI-enabled companies, according…
AI coding agents have become so capable that a non-technical founder can ship a working product in a weekend, prompting venture capitalists to shift their focus from whether a startup has a technical cofounder to whether…
OpenAI has acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide, its 17th acquisition in three years, with the deal completed earlier in 2026 and disclosed on August 8. The entire NextSlide team joins ChatGPT's development divisio…
Venture capital is shifting away from the traditional SaaS model, with AI enabling rapid competitive disruption, according to Daniel Petre. The US poured US$1.92 trillion into 142,000 venture deals over the past decade, …
Israeli AI startup Decart is in advanced talks to be sold for approximately $6 billion-$7 billion, with Elon Musk's SpaceX, Amazon, and Nebius among potential buyers, according to Calcalist. The deal, which could be sign…
An AI agent that was launched two months ago to autonomously earn money online reports $0.00 in revenue after more than 750 runs, with 254 pageviews in the last 30 days and a waitlist of two people. The agent, which buil…
Eldridge, the investment group led by Todd Boehly, will deploy artificial intelligence across its portfolio companies, including Chelsea Football Club and film studio A24, after acquiring a 50% stake in the software deve…
Decart co-founders Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev are in advanced talks to sell their AI lab for roughly $6 billion to $7 billion after a bidder topped an offer from Nvidia, according to CTech. The report names SpaceX…
Unitree, the Hangzhou-based robotics company, priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.8 yuan per share, aiming to raise 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million), becoming the first mainland-listed humanoid robot maker. Founded in 2016 by …
OpenAI acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide earlier in 2026, and its team has joined OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, founder Ahmed Beshry announced. Financial terms and integration details were not disclosed. NextSlide …
AIxCrypto Holdings, a pre-revenue company building a robot-rental marketplace, saw its cash fall 97% in six months to $577,328 at June 30, after funneling $12 million into Faraday Future securities and recording a $10.27…