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Vodafone has partnered with AI startup Aavalynx to co-develop an AI-driven litigation platform that manages legal disputes and forecasts financial costs, challenging market leaders Harvey and Legora. Aavalynx announced a…
Emergent, an AI-powered software builder founded by brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha in 2024 with Y Combinator support, has raised $230 million and reached a $1.5 billion valuation, closing a $130 million Series C in July.…
Google is in talks to acquire talent from San Francisco startup Mechanize in a deal valued at over $1.5 billion, according to four people familiar with the conversations. The deal would involve a non-exclusive licensing …
Castform, an AI startup, announced that its reinforcement learning post-training platform combined with Neon's Lakebase Postgres and Search extensions enables open-weights models to match or beat frontier models on agent…
Bitdeer Technologies Holding Company has signed a 16-year lease worth up to $4.7 billion to supply 121 megawatts of IT capacity from its Tydal data center in Norway for Nvidia GPU-powered AI and high-performance computin…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $45 billion AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed in late July 2026, triggering a 75% volatility spike in semiconductor stocks (SOX Index), the third such instance after March 2020 and A…
Apple has escalated its legal dispute with OpenAI by requesting a preliminary injunction, a move that could significantly impact OpenAI's operations. The request was discussed by Ed Elson and Alex Heath, who analyzed the…
WindBorne Systems, a startup using the world's longest-flying weather balloons and AI forecasting models, has raised a $37 million Series B round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize, valuing the company at $250 milli…
Yann LeCun, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist and former Meta chief AI scientist, has joined 224 Ventures, an AI-focused investment firm launching on August 5 with more than $100 million in assets under managem…
Vast, a Beijing-based AI startup specializing in generative AI for 3D modeling, is targeting a $2 billion valuation for its Hong Kong IPO, double its recent private valuation of approximately $1 billion, with Bank of Ame…
Private investors poured $8.8 billion into AI projects in emerging markets in the first half of 2026, surpassing the total for all of 2025 and marking the highest level since records began in 2008, according to the Globa…
AI enthusiasts like Jeffrey Escobar, a 25-year-old from Miami, report feeling isolated as friends and family fail to share their passion for building with AI, with Escobar saying, "It's like I'm in a dark room, everybody…
Noa Khamallah's Don't Quit Ventures has closed its second round of Fund I at $10 million, achieving a 2.5x return on invested capital, with three of its 17 investments now valued above $1 billion, according to Fortune. T…
Christopher Kercher, a former Quinn Emanuel partner, launched Kercher Law as an AI-native litigation firm that plans to handle high-stakes corporate disputes with fewer than 20 attorneys, betting that artificial intellig…
China's Moonshot AI is expected to close a financing round by the end of August at a valuation of up to US$50 billion, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end, according to sources. The company recently c…
DeepSeek has reportedly reopened talks for a second funding round targeting RMB50 billion, potentially valuing the Chinese AI company at about RMB500 billion before the financing, with an agreement possible in late Augus…
Aikido Security launched Aikido Machine, an on-premises GPU server that runs its AI pentesting and AI Code Analysis entirely within a customer's network, ensuring no source code, repositories, or prompts leave the infras…
Kaiwang Data, a Chinese provider of data infrastructure for embodied AI, has completed a strategic funding round of more than RMB100 million, led by Beijing E-Town Industrial Upgrade Fund, Huafang Capital, and Skyline Ca…
Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, agreed to acquire Airtable, a project-management software company, for $1.28 billion in an all-stock deal. The acquisition is expected to expand Bending Spoons' portfolio of prod…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of the Kimi chatbot, has reportedly opened a G-round pre-IPO financing at a $50 billion valuation, with investor interest intensifying after the launch of Kimi K3. A person familiar wit…