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Investors are shifting from value to growth stocks in Japan, driven by AI-related firms like Kioxia and SoftBank overtaking traditional manufacturers in market-cap rankings. This change reflects growing global interest i…
MoEngage acquired Aampe in an all-cash deal worth tens of millions, integrating Aampe's reinforcement learning engine that handles 200 billion personalized decisions per week for brands like Swiggy and Grab. The acquisit…
Plot.so, an AI-powered video social listening platform, has raised $14 million in seed funding to help enterprise marketing teams monitor user-generated video content across platforms. The platform uses multi-modal analy…
The US leveraged ETF market hit a record $198 billion in assets, driven by AI hype and semiconductor demand, with ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ) and Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (SOXL) leading the surge. Th…
Hyundai Motor Group announced plans to buy SoftBank Group's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, making the robotics firm a wholly owned subsidiary. The acquisition follows SoftBank's exercise of a …
MNX (mnx.fi), the AI Exchange, launched as a decentralized futures exchange for AI-economy assets, offering leveraged trading and prediction markets on private company valuations, AI equity perpetuals, compute rental rat…
Merge Labs (Merge.io), a San Francisco-based research lab developing non-invasive brain-computer interfaces using molecules and ultrasound, emerged from stealth on January 15, 2026, with $250-252 million in seed funding …
Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, acquired AI detection startup GPTZero for its 19 million users and $30 million in annual recurring revenue. The deal gives Superhuman a second detection system, halluc…
Backblaze announced a $335 million, multi-exabyte storage agreement with CoreWeave covering five- and seven-year terms, providing HDD-based tiered storage for CoreWeave AI Object Storage. The deal includes equity warrant…
Syndio acquired Embrace.ai, an agentic AI company specializing in enterprise workflow automation, to accelerate its pay intelligence platform. The full Embrace.ai team, including founders Derek Butts and Seth Halpern, wi…
Cerebras Systems reported $193.4 million in first-quarter revenue, beating analyst expectations of $181.2 million, but shares fell over 9% in after-hours trading as investors focused on projected negative core operating …
Sakana AI's Fugu multi-model orchestration system costs 5x more and runs 4.5x slower than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 while delivering similar results, raising questions about the practical value of multi-agent approache…
Qualcomm announced an agreement to acquire Modular Inc, an AI-native software platform company, to strengthen its software foundation for generative and agentic AI across data center and edge environments. The acquisitio…
A founder who spoke with over 100 CFOs at European companies found that demand for AI in finance focuses on narrow workflow automation—tax-code posting, invoice routing, and deduplication—rather than autonomous agents or…
AI-native ERP startups raised over $350 million in 2025, with Campfire, Rillet, and DualEntry each securing nine-figure rounds, but European mid-market CFOs say they will not switch their ERP, preferring to buy an AI lay…
Accounting software buyers fall into three distinct profiles with incompatible economics: independent small firms where automation threatens billing models, large advisory firms that build in-house, and PE-backed rollups…
Estonian accounting firms report that small and medium-sized businesses with annual revenue below €1M are unwilling to pay for AI financial tools, while those above that threshold see value. The finding highlights a mark…
Sail, an infrastructure startup for long-horizon AI agents, announced an $80M seed and Series A funding round led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins. The company builds inference servers and sandboxes optimized for extended …
Indian customer engagement firm MoEngage acquired San Francisco-based startup Aampe in an all-cash deal worth tens of millions of dollars, betting that AI agents personalizing marketing for individual customers will beco…
AI stocks slumped this week as investors questioned whether massive spending by tech giants like Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft on AI data centers will yield sufficient profits. Chipmakers including Nvidia, Micron…