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A market analyst warns that the AI infrastructure buildout may be overbuilt for 2024-25 demand, citing Nvidia's revenue concentration, hyperscaler capex payback periods exceeding 36 months, and a $4 billion annualized AP…
Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the API gateway used by 8 million developers to access 400+ AI models, for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg confirmed on August 16. The deal values OpenRouter at 5.4x its $1.3 billion …
Startup founders are working harder than ever to keep up with their AI agents, according to a Wall Street Journal report that highlights the growing burden of managing autonomous AI tools in early-stage companies. The re…
Anthropic generated $11.5 billion in revenue in Q2 2026, surpassing OpenAI's $6.7 billion for the first time and achieving its first positive adjusted operating income, according to internal documents viewed by Bloomberg…
Outer Biosciences, a 19-person company led by Michael Polansky, has raised approximately $23 million to build a skin-assay licensing business that uses machine learning and human skin tissue viable for four weeks to iden…
Nscale Global Holdings Ltd., a London-based AI data center builder, is reportedly seeking to raise $3 billion in a U.S. initial public offering as soon as next month, with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co…
Greptile, an AI code review startup, is hiring a Generalist Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $170k–$300k, plus $40k–$120k in equity and up to $25k in relocation assistance. The company, which reviews 5 billion …
Pieter Levels' public ledger of roughly 113 projects, with about 9 marked a success, reveals that most of his vibe-coding ventures never earned money, contrasting with his fly.pieter.com AI flight game reaching $1M in an…
Simile AI, co-founded by Joon Sung Park, has raised a $2 billion Series B backed by GreenOaks and Index Ventures, with prominent backers including Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy, to build foundation models of human behav…
Twin1 AI, a San Mateo-based startup founded by Dr. Lewis Z. Liu and team, emerged from stealth on August 20 with a $20 million seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Aramco Ventures…
Starcloud Inc. raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to build orbital AI data centers, with investment firm Manhattan West leading the round and Nvidia Corp. and Cisco Investments among the backers. The company…
Starcloud announced a $250 million Series A extension on August 21, 2026, at a $2.3 billion post-money valuation, with Manhattan West leading and NVIDIA participating. The round brings the company's total funding to $450…
Nvidia is centralizing the AI supply chain through a licensing-plus-hire strategy, most recently paying $6 billion for a non-exclusive license to Poolside AI's Model Factory and investing $1 billion at a $12 billion pre-…
Rillet, an AI accounting software maker, raised $100 million in a Series C round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1 billion after its annualized revenue rate doubled in one quarter. The company, which serves more t…
A developer has launched a collection of websites built on the .lol domain, featuring pay-to-rank directories and AI consultancy services. The collection includes outbid.lol, techaro.lol, acronym.lol, topapp.lol, topnews…
Anthropic is accelerating plans for a U.S. IPO that could challenge SpaceX's record for the largest new share offering, targeting a $2 trillion valuation and a potential market debut in October. The company's preliminary…
Netflix paid $587 million in July for Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, which develops tools for post-production tasks like sound mixing and visual effects, according to federal filings. Affleck, along with Darren …
Stripe has acquired OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, a significant increase from the startup's $1.3 billion valuation in May, according to TechCrunch citing New York Times sources. The acquisition, confirmed by Stripe, aims …
Devoted Health, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based Medicare Advantage startup, is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $25 billion valuation, up from its $16 billion valuation earlier this year, according to sources. T…
Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures co-led an undisclosed initial funding round for Discovery Loop, the AI research startup founded by Jeff Dean and three Google veterans, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Lights…