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Arrakis, a London and Paris-based startup, has raised $38 million in venture funding to build an AI "operating system" for industrial sectors including aerospace, energy, logistics, and manufacturing. Accel led the $7.5 …
AMD and Anthropic announced July 22 a sweeping agreement including up to $5 billion in AMD investment and a multi-year chip supply deal worth tens of billions of dollars for Instinct MI450 accelerators across a 2-gigawat…
CoreWeave CFO Nitin Agrawal sold approximately $5.96 million in Class A common stock after restricted stock units vested around June 12, a routine post-IPO liquidity move that has drawn investor attention to the AI infra…
StrongestLayer Inc., an AI-based email security startup, raised $4.1 million in new funding led by Inovia Capital Inc. to expand its reasoning-based platform that analyzes message intent rather than relying on signatures…
Passionfroot, a German startup building a B2B creator marketplace, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners to expand to the US. The company, which has increased revenue 13 times in the …
London-based Arrakis emerged from stealth with $38 million raised over six months, including a $30 million round led by Blossom and Accel, with Datadog CEO and an OpenAI executive joining as investors.
A new analysis of customer acquisition cost (CAC) by channel for one-person AI products finds that paid channels run hundreds of dollars per customer, with B2B paid search near $800 and LinkedIn near $982, while earned c…
Twin sisters Danielle and Leah Cohen-Shohet, Princeton graduates and former Goldman Sachs employees, raised $44 million at a $1.15 billion valuation for their wellness company Genius AI, making it a unicorn. The funding …
OpenAI has named David Vélez, CEO of Nubank, and Robin Vince, CEO of BNY Mellon, to its board of directors as it prepares for a potential IPO, having filed an S-1 with the SEC in June 2026. Vince is expected to chair the…
TIME and Statista ranked Duolingo as the world's top EdTech company of 2026, based on financial performance and industry impact. The language-learning app, which now has over 60 million daily active users and generated m…
AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supply up to 2 gigawatts of its next-generation Instinct MI450 AI accelerators, according to the Wall Street Journal. The chips, worth tens of billions of dollar…
Roi Tiger, a former Meta vice president who built a controversial surveillance tool, launched a $1.2 billion cybersecurity AI unicorn with $180 million in funding.
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic to build 2GW of AI infrastructure, with deployment starting in the first half of 2027. The deal makes Anthropic one of AMD's largest AI customers alongside Meta and OpenAI, …
AMD will sell Anthropic tens of billions of dollars in AI servers and invest up to $5 billion in the startup, according to a report. The deal underscores AMD's push to challenge Nvidia in the AI chip market.
Glow emerged from stealth on July 22, 2026, with $180 million in funding and a $1.2 billion valuation, claiming that endpoint security tools like CrowdStrike were built for human users and cannot secure AI agents now run…
Alphabet's earnings report later today will test whether investors stick with the Magnificent Seven or buy the sell-off in semiconductor stocks, as the performance gap between the two groups has widened over the past mon…
A Forbes Councils member warns that many C-suites are pouring money into AI transformation without a clear definition of what it means for their business, risking wasted investment. The article urges executives to define…
OpenAI is launching OpenAI Presence, a new product that helps companies deploy AI agents by connecting them to internal data, policies, and workflows, aiming to automate customer support, sales, and other tasks. The move…
Arrakis, a London- and Paris-based startup building an AI "operating system" for industrial companies, emerged from stealth with $38 million in venture funding, including a $30 million Series A led by Blossom Capital. Th…
OpenCode co-founder Dax Raad told Syntax podcast hosts Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski that his team has become dependent on a proprietary AI model they are contractually unable to discuss publicly, highlighting the growing l…