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PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A funding round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks incl…
Chinese AI company StepFun is reportedly splitting its foundation model and agent-device businesses, moving its phone business into a separate company while the original entity continues model operations. The company is …
Four top Google DeepMind researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le — have departed to cofound a new AI research startup, Discovery Loop, which Google is investing in. Demis Hassabis is moving f…
A former OpenAI alignment safety lead announced their departure to found Jurassic Park, a startup aimed at resurrecting dinosaurs to defend against misaligned AI, citing the fossil record's 165 million years without a re…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to start AI startup Discovery Loop, as Alphabet invests in the venture and provides cloud and computing capacity. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, will be…
Klaviyo, a publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform, has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by Elias Torres, with terms undisclosed. Torres will join Kl…
Anthropic has signed a $10 billion computing deal with startup Volta Park, founded by former executives, to secure dedicated compute capacity for AI training. The agreement aims to reduce Anthropic's reliance on traditio…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving the company after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI startup focused on accelerating scientific research, with Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner. Alphab…
Jeff Dean, Google's longest-serving executive and chief scientist, is leaving the company to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on using AI to accelerate scientific research, with co-founders San…
Sapiom, a San Francisco AI infrastructure startup, raised a $35 million Series A led by Dragonfly, bringing its total funding to $50 million less than a year after founding. The round, announced Wednesday by co-founder I…
Wordsmith AI has secured a $14 million extension to its Series B financing, bringing the total Series B to $84 million and the company's disclosed funding to approximately $114 million. The round was led by Intact Privat…
Google AI pioneer Jeff Dean left the company on August 5, 2026, after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup automating scientific experimentation, while Demis Hassabis stepped back from day-to-day CEO duties at …
Etched raised $300 million in a Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, announced in late July, less than a month after emerging from stealth, with Sequoia leading the round and participation from a16z, Jane…
Jack Ma's private equity firm Yunfeng Capital secretly led a $30 million funding round in Corgi, an AI business insurance startup and Y Combinator summer 2024 cohort member, valuing it at $4 billion, according to a sourc…
Naomi Bashkansky, a former OpenAI alignment researcher, resigned on July 23rd and joined Conduit as a founding researcher on July 24th to work on non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that aim to decode thoughts into te…
Google DeepMind is overhauling its leadership as Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day management to become Alphabet's chief scientist and Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to launch AI startup Discovery Loop. F…
Four Google AI leaders — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals — have left Google to found Discovery Loop, a startup aimed at automating scientific research, with Google investing and providing cloud com…
Google is in talks on a deal worth more than $1.5 billion with Mechanize, a San Francisco AI training startup founded by Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, and Ege Erdil, according to Business Insider. The transaction wou…
Moove, a mobility infrastructure company, announced it raised $250 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $2.1 billion. The round was led by Mubadala Investment Company, Woven Capital, Toyota's Growth Fun…
Sekai, a platform founded in 2024 by former ByteDance executive Lucky Zhang, has seen users create over 20 million AI-generated mini-apps since its late 2025 launch, with about 250,000 new apps added daily. The company h…