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XPeng Robotics, the robotics arm of Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng Inc., raised over $900 million at a post-money valuation of $6.3 billion, in a round co-led by IDG Capital and Gaorong Ventures with strategic inve…
Stanley Druckenmiller's Duquesne Family Office sold all of its Intel, Micron, and Broadcom shares in the second quarter, and used the proceeds to build a new 72,900-share stake in AMD and positions in former Bitcoin mine…
Anthropic filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC on June 1, 2026, confirming its plans for an initial public offering, with Amazon's stake in the company valued at $190.4 billion as of Q2 2026, up from $74…
Nvidia is in discussions to invest in Perplexity AI at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, according to The Information, marking a shift from licensing to equity ownership. Perplexity's ARR has grown from about $63 millio…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting startup, has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, and its CEO Nicolas Kopp says AI is reshaping consulting firm hiring by reducing routine bookkeeping work an…
Hugging Face, the AI model repository, is reportedly seeking an acquisition at a valuation of about $13 billion, according to Business Insider, citing anonymous sources. The company, which was valued at $4.5 billion in 2…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude product, has reportedly achieved a $65 billion annual revenue run rate by the end of July 2026, according to a report from Motley Fool, up from $47 billion in May and approxima…
The European Commission's Apply AI Startup Award has received 24 nominations from national startup associations across 16 Member States, with independent experts now evaluating them to select the top 10 finalists for a p…
Nvidia is in early discussions with South Korean inference startup Rebellions for a technical partnership, investment, or acquisition, according to Bloomberg. Rebellions, founded in 2020, has forged custom HBM co-design …
London-based AI infrastructure startup Callosum has closed a $100 million seed round led by Atomico, with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK's £500 million Sovereign AI fund, marking the fund's first disclosed e…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in startups that exploit legal loopholes, deceive consumers, and break laws, according to a report by The Midas Project. The firm, co-founded by Mar…
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet is losing users to cheaper AI tools despite its superior performance, according to a developer's analysis. The high cost per token, restrictive free tier, and lack of deep ecosystem integrat…
Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity as part of an equity round that would value the AI search startup at more than $30 billion, according to a report by The Information. The discussions signal Nvidia's push into A…
Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity AI at a valuation of more than $30 billion, according to The Information, marking a jump of over 50% from the startup's $20 billion valuation in June. Perplexity's annualized re…
Nvidia is in active discussions to invest in Perplexity, an AI search startup, in a deal that would value the company above $30 billion, according to The Information and Reuters. Perplexity's annualized revenue run rate …
Ema, an Agentic AI platform company founded by former Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta executives, is hiring for its AI/Data Resident program, a 6-month remote internship in India for final-year undergraduate compute…
Nvidia is in discussions with Perplexity AI about a licensing agreement that could value the AI search startup at over $30 billion, a roughly 57x jump from its approximately $520 million Series B valuation in January 202…
Darkbloom, a service at darkbloom.dev, lets owners of M-Series Macs rent out idle compute to serve open-source language models, with estimated earnings of $146 to $602 per month depending on chip and memory bandwidth, th…
Hugging Face Inc. is exploring a sale that could value the AI model repository at $13 billion or more, according to a Business Insider report citing people familiar with the process. The company, which last raised $235 m…
Hugging Face, a New York-based AI startup hosting open-source large language models and datasets, has been exploring a sale that could value it at US$13 billion or more, according to a Business Insider report citing sour…