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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…
China's Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy, closing a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days and planning another targeting a valuation of as much as $50 billion,…
AI is reducing the amount of capital startups need to build global businesses, shifting the battle for founders away from funding and towards which countries offer the best environment to scale, according to Revolut Busi…
PolarDC, a Norwegian data center operator launched by the Lian Group and controlled by H.I.G. Infrastructure, closed an €800 million ($930 million) senior secured bond deal in late May, the largest high-yield issuance in…
Ojin, a German-based AI company, launches a platform for building real-time human-like AI agents with voice and face capabilities, offering APIs for easy website integration and starting with $10 in free credits. The pla…
Samsung is in talks to invest up to one billion euros in French AI startup Mistral, which would push the company's valuation to around 20 billion euros, according to The Decoder.
CuspAI, a Cambridge startup founded in 2024 by Dr. Chad Edwards and Professor Max Welling, closed a $450 million Series B on July 21, 2026, valuing it at $2.6 billion, up from $520 million nine months earlier. The round …
Glow emerged from stealth with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation to advance a prevention-first approach to endpoint security. The funding round was led by Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint V…
Apple's intellectual property lawsuit against OpenAI could delay the company's highly anticipated initial public offering until 2027, according to Kenny Polcari, Kevin Mahn, and Willy Lee. The legal battle exposes Apple'…
Toronto-based startup ChatFeatured has raised $2 million USD to help brands optimize their visibility in responses from chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT. The funding will support the company's platform that improves how …
Orbital, an AI-powered legal technology company, has processed over 100 billion tokens through its AI systems and raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Brighton Park Capital to automate real estate law. The compa…
Synthesia launched Roleplay Sessions on July 22, a product that lets employees practice conversations with AI avatars that provide real-time feedback and scoring, moving beyond static training videos. The British startup…
SkyPilot, co-founded by Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica and UC Berkeley researchers, emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital to build a neutral orchestration layer for AI compute…
Intel reports Q2 2026 earnings on July 23, with its stock up roughly 200% year-to-date and more than 400% over the past 12 months, driven by AI chip demand and a revitalized foundry strategy after a blockbuster order fro…
OpenAI is expanding into Israel with its first local commercial team, hiring a former Amazon Web Services executive to lead business development and client management from a regional office in London. The company is recr…
Tencent Holdings shares plunged as much as 7.1% on June 2026, the steepest single-day drop since April 2025, as investors rotated from gaming stocks into AI-related companies. The tech giant has shed approximately $309 b…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended Chinese open-source AI models as 'world class' at the China International Supply Chain Expo, arguing US companies should be allowed to use them despite a selloff triggered by Moonshot AI'…
Omen AI has raised $31 million in Series A funding led by Nava Ventures to commercialize spectroscopic sensors that detect bacteria and contamination in coolant lines of GPU clusters, preventing costly outages. The San F…