AI Startups

Blue Owl is preparing to sell Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data center business for about $30 billion, with BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Macquarie, and IFM Investors as likely bidders. The valuation…

Bitcoin faces a turbulent summer as institutional capital rotates into AI stocks and tech IPOs, with spot Bitcoin ETFs recording their second-largest three-week outflow streak of 62,794 BTC. K33 Research analyst Vetle Lu…

US technology stocks lost $1.3 trillion in market value on June 5, 2026, after Broadcom's fiscal Q2 earnings guidance miss triggered a sector-wide selloff. Broadcom projected $16 billion in AI chip sales for Q3, below th…

South Korea's KOSPI index plunged 9.99% on June 23, triggering circuit breakers, as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics dropped over 12% amid doubts about the AI-driven rally. The KOSPI had surged more than 100% year-to-dat…

ByteDance is seeking a $20 billion offshore loan to fund an AI infrastructure buildout, nearly doubling its previous record, as the TikTok parent pivots from social media to competing with OpenAI. The company has committ…

Michael Kassan, founder and CEO of 3C Ventures, discussed AI disruption and the evolving media landscape at Cannes Lions, emphasizing the need for leaders to navigate interconnected changes in technology, consumer behavi…

Amazon dropped Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' after striking a $15 billion partnership with OpenAI, Altman's company. The film, which portrays Altman unsympathetically, will be shopped to other studios.

Rivvun AI, a Seattle-based startup founded in 2026, has raised $7.55M in seed funding led by Sitara Capital and 3one4 Capital for its autonomous agentic execution layer that detects and corrects P&L leakage in real time.…

KT launched an AI Innovation Hub in Seoul to help enterprises move beyond AI pilot projects and achieve measurable business results. The facility provides an end-to-end AI development environment where corporate clients …

Hydrix has been engaged by US-based Quantanosis Ai to support the preliminary development of a next-generation robotic stroke treatment platform that combines advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and histotripsy u…

Niteshift.dev, founded in 2025 by ex-Datadog engineers and launched in June 2026, provides a full-stack cloud platform that supplies isolated, production-like environments for AI coding agents to run autonomous workflows…

Greek robotics startup Acumino raised $11.7 million in seed funding to scale commercial deployments of its hardware-agnostic physical AI for dexterous industrial automation tasks. The company was selected by Google DeepM…

Orel Zilberman, solo builder of WriteStack, spent 599 days building ten products that earned nothing before focusing on one tool for Substack creators, which became a six-figure business. He discusses how AI accelerated …

Lloyd's-backed MGA K2 PI targets larger professional indemnity risks, focusing on higher-risk accounts and international business through its broker-neutral model. Managing director Richard Smart says the firm's Lloyd's …

An Associated Press feature profiles a wave of startups and researchers shifting focus from language models to 'world models' that learn physical space and interaction. Computer scientist Louis Castricato left Brown Univ…

Emergent Ventures announced its 55th cohort of winners, supporting projects ranging from AI policy and longevity research to drone-acquired synthetic aperture radar for archaeology and science education initiatives. The …

Legal tech startup Legion sued the US government on Tuesday over an order requiring Anthropic to restrict access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models from foreign nationals, causing Legion to lose access to tools integr…

Japanese AI startup Sakana claims its Fugu Ultra model delivers frontier-level performance by selectively using other AI models like Claude and Gemini for specific tasks, outperforming competitors such as Fable 5, Gemini…

OpenAI spent $34 billion last year as it prepares for an initial public offering, according to a report. The spending spree underscores the high costs of developing advanced AI models. The planned IPO could value the com…

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03B at a $3.5B valuation to build world models using JEPA, signaling a shift from LLMs to physics-aware AI. NVIDIA's Cosmos platform, trained on 20 million hours of real-world data, provid…