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AI startup Corgi, known for its seven-day work week policy, has raised new funding at a $4 billion valuation, Forbes reported. The company, which focuses on AI-powered software development tools, has not disclosed the ex…
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley startups, including Proton and Y Combinator, urged the Trump administration not to block access to Chinese open-weight AI models, warning that such a ban would cripple U.S. startups. In a letter…
Chinese AI entrepreneurs are increasingly choosing to build their startups in China rather than Silicon Valley, according to a Financial Times analysis. The shift is driven by growing opportunities in China's domestic AI…
Alphabet reported $98 billion in other income for Q2 2026, almost entirely from unrealized gains on investments in SpaceX, Anthropic, and Databricks, but buried the windfall in a single vague sentence. Analysts ignored t…
A Reddit user identifying as ComputeIQ announced on July 21st that they are dropping Anthropic's Claude for Kimi's K3 model, citing Claude's rising per-token cost, opaque usage limits on the Fable-5 tier, and closed-sour…
AI-coded software is becoming practical for daily use in internal tools, shrinking the moat of traditional SaaS. Better coding agents and app patterns now allow teams to own, customize, and connect software for their spe…
Tesla missed analysts' profit forecasts for the second quarter and reported negative free cash flow for the first time in over two years as Elon Musk's AI spending surged. Adjusted profit was 33 cents per share, below th…
AMD announced plans to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI servers to Anthropic and invest up to $5 billion in the AI startup, with delivery of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI servers expected to begin in the first half…
Travis Kalanick revealed that he spent eight years secretly building Atoms, a portfolio of industrial AI businesses including Cloud Kitchens (hundreds of facilities in 30 countries), autonomous mining company Pronto, and…
Skyfall AI, a startup founded by former Microsoft AI leaders, plans to buy a small SaaS or e-commerce business for up to $1 million to test its AI CEO, which would oversee pricing, marketing, customer support, finance, a…
Darren Aronofsky's AI studio Primordial Soup is seeking to raise $15 million in cash for equity, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week. The company has sold just over $11 million in equity th…
Primordial Soup Labs, Darren Aronofsky's AI-focused production studio, filed a Form D with the SEC on July 16 for an equity offering of up to $14,999,999, with $11,049,994 already sold, leaving about $3.95 million availa…
Union Square Ventures (USV) argues that AI enables startups to obliterate, not just automate, existing markets by democratizing expertise, citing investments in Doctronic, Isembard, and Cofounder as examples. The firm's …
Physical AI firms have raised more than $23 billion in venture capital in 2026 so far, according to The Wall Street Journal, with major deals including Waymo's $16 billion Series D, Skild AI's $1.4 billion Series C, NEUR…
Petra Labs, a New York-based startup founded in 2025, announced a $5.2 million seed round led by Work-Bench on Wednesday to connect brands' visibility in AI-generated answers to traffic, pipeline and revenue. The round i…
Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by former Department of Government Efficiency staffers Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuati…
Anthropic PBC will purchase up to two gigawatts of graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as part of a multibillion-dollar deal announced today. AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and use Claude to sp…
Cheiron, a Stanford-linked startup, raised $8 million in a seed round led by Menlo Ventures to build an operating system for drug programs, bringing total public financing to $12 million. The company aims to move beyond …
Nuclear startup Aalo Atomics closed a $100 million Series B funding round on August 19, 2025, led by Valor Equity Partners with participation from NRG Energy and Hitachi Ventures, to meet AI data center power demand. The…
A new $3 trillion sector dubbed 'Memi'—a portmanteau of memory and semiconductors—is transforming global equities markets, fueled by AI's demand for memory chips, according to asset manager Harbor Capital. The sector is …