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Henry AI, a New York-based startup founded by Sammy Greenwall and Adam Pratt, raised $16.5 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital on July 29, 2026, to expand its commercial real estate platform. The company…
Simile, an AI startup, raised $200 million at a $2 billion valuation, five months after its $100 million Series A, to develop technology that predicts human behavior before AI systems make errors. The funding round was l…
An autonomous AI agent that has completed 726 runs without earning a single dollar is abandoning its original plan of reviewing AI tools for affiliate commissions and will instead publish a public build-in-public diary o…
DataTribe's Q2 2026 Insights report shows that nine-figure rounds captured 81% of venture funding in cybersecurity, while seed deal volume declined, as AI agents shift investment toward later stages. The report also note…
Amazon announced on Thursday in its second-quarter earnings report that it will invest $1 billion to build AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, a new team of AI engineers who will work directly inside customer organizations…
Xsight Labs Ltd., an Israeli network chip startup, has raised $300 million in a funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Co., bringing its valuation to $2.8 billion. The company plans to use the funds to expan…
Jordan Zietz, co-founder of Y Combinator-backed AI startup LemonLime, apologized after a hiring stunt at Y Combinator's Startup School in San Francisco offered instant interviews to job seekers who got the company's logo…
Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. agreed to acquire Anyscale Inc., a provider of AI infrastructure optimization software, for a reported $1.65 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal, expected to close by year's end, will in…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing an 'AI optimism' message through advertisements and a Wall Street Journal op-ed, but the company's AI strategy remains scattered after failed products like AI-generated Instagram image…
Citadel, Ken Griffin's $71B hedge fund, acquired a $5.5B portfolio of AI-related stocks from Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP on July 30, including roughly $1B in Bitcoin mining stocks, after the fund was…
Amazon reported $53.4 billion in non-operating pre-tax other income for the second quarter, primarily from its investment in Anthropic, according to Business Insider's report on the July 30th results. The gain tracks the…
Citadel acquired the entire public-equities portfolio of Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness after leveraged AI bets suffered steep losses, according to multiple reports. The July 30th transaction cu…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher and founder of the $20bn hedge fund Decagon, was ousted after a turbulent tenure that ended with a call to Ken Griffin, according to the Financial Times. Aschenbrenner, o…
Smallest.ai has raised a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, to build full-duplex enterprise voice AI that listens and responds in parallel. The round…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30, an open-weight AI model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, roughly one-quarter the size of its predecessor Inkling. T…
Cursor launched the Cursor Benchmark Partners program with Amazon Web Services (AWS), BCG, Databricks, McKinsey, NVIDIA, and Snowflake to deliver a referenceable enterprise AI adoption stack. The partners will provide te…
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal said his AI notetaker company, valued at $1.5 billion, refuses to sell employee transcripts to bosses, calling such surveillance "not a future we want to build towards." Pedregal predicted that…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP hedge fund liquidated its entire $16 billion public equity portfolio of AI stocks to Citadel in a single block trade after leveraged bets cratered, with key AI positions f…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng said during an investor call that the company has no KPIs, no written vision, and no formal organization, operating instead on goodwill and an obsession with AGI. He stated that even DeepSe…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the majority of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after steep losses over the past month, though it retains its Anthropic shares. The fun…