AI Startups

Jonathan Laramy quit his customer service job to create AI-generated history videos on YouTube, where his channel Chloe VS History now earns more than his previous wage. Each long-form video costs between $400 and $1,070…

General Intuition, a New York-based startup building a foundation model for AI agents, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $2 billion valuation, eight months after spinning out of Medal with a $134 million seed round.…

Meta's newly appointed President Dina Powell McCormick is leveraging her Wall Street connections, including relationships with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, to secure financing for the company's massive AI infrastructure bui…

Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix launched the Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, to support AI legislation with $5 million. The PAC aims to counter the inf…

Amazon is negotiating to sell its custom Trainium AI processors to external companies for use in their own data centers, challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware. The move follows Amazon's in-house chip business rea…

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Sebastian Kurz and Shalev Hulio's AI cybersecurity startup DREAM raised $260 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11. The company sells sovereign AI cyber defense system…

BotPool has launched a freelance marketplace connecting businesses with over 5,000 vetted AI freelancers for projects in machine learning, chatbot development, prompt engineering, and automation. The platform charges a f…

Midjourney, known for AI imagery, announced plans to build a cheaper, faster body scanner using ultrasonic sensors and open a spa in San Francisco by 2025, aiming to collect health data and eventually seek FDA clearance.

Baseten, an AI inference infrastructure startup, is closing a $1.5 billion funding round that values the company at up to $13 billion, tripling its valuation in six months. The round is co-led by Altimeter Capital, Convi…

ServiceNow (NOW) is highlighted as the best generative AI software stock to buy in June, according to a recent analysis. The company's strong position in the enterprise software market and its integration of generative A…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei manages only one direct report—his chief of staff—while all other senior leaders report to his sister and company president Daniela Amodei, a structure he calls 'incredibly freeing' that allows…

Silicon Valley wealth advisers report a surge in activity from tech employees and early investors at SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic expecting major liquidity events. Advisers say clients are strategically planning their w…

The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM), the first exchange-traded fund dedicated to memory chip companies, has surpassed $20 billion in assets under management just weeks after its April 2, 2026 launch, driven by surging invest…

Super Micro Computer lost over 40% of its value after short-seller Hindenburg Research published a report alleging accounting red flags, undisclosed related-party transactions, and potential export control violations. Th…

Microsoft is evaluating a range of open and open-weight models, beyond DeepSeek, for its Copilot Cowork agentic work app, aiming to enable flexible model swapping based on task type, cost, and latency. The move could red…

Sebastian Kurz, former Austrian chancellor, has built AI cybersecurity startup DREAM to a $3 billion valuation after a $260 million funding round. The company, co-founded with Shalev Hulio, uses AI to detect state-sponso…

SpaceX acquired Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding platform Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal announced June 16, positioning the newly public aerospace giant as a direct competitor to OpenAI and Anthropic i…

Yann LeCun, the 'godfather of AI' and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned of an AI bubble, citing high costs and talent issues. LeCun, who is selling an alternative AI approach, argued that A…

Seattle-based AI startup Gradial raised $65 million in Series C funding led by Insight Partners to deploy AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows. The company, whose clients include AWS, T-Mobile, and Vang…