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Google's accelerator program has supported 2,011 startups across 88 countries over a decade, achieving a 93% survival rate and a collective portfolio valuation of $135.1 billion. The program provides deep technical guida…
Wilco 63 Corporation, a blank-check company sponsored by family office HGM, priced its $200 million IPO at $10 per unit, targeting acquisitions in artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics. The units begin tradin…
Bitzero Holdings Inc., a Canadian data center company backed by Kevin O'Leary, listed its voting shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange under ticker BITZ.U in late December 2025 after raising over $100 million in pri…
Higgsfield, an AI video startup, reported an annual revenue run rate of $500 million as of June 2026, up from $50 million in September 2025, and is now cash-flow positive. The company works with 390 Fortune 500 clients, …
Open AI opens its first Nordic office in Stockholm, Sweden, primarily as a sales hub to serve existing and future customers, according to experts. The move highlights Sweden's advanced tech ecosystem and high digital mat…
Accenture lowered its full-year growth forecast to 3-5%, below analyst expectations, as investors fear AI will automate junior-level consulting work. The company posted $18 billion in Q2 revenue and $2.2 billion in AI bo…
Anthropic released a playbook for building AI-native startups without accruing technical debt, outlining four stages—Idea, MVP, Launch, and Scale—with AI-driven workflows and strict architectural guardrails to prevent co…
NextEra Energy has become the largest global issuer of hybrid bonds, raising €4.25 billion in euro-denominated securities since November 2025 to fund power infrastructure for AI data centers. The company also announced a…
Maverick Capital co-CIOs Ben Silver and David Tykocinski warn of an 'air pocket' risk in AI markets as infrastructure buildout outpaces productivity gains, and predict value will shift back downstream to application and …
Pixi launched a messaging app on the App Store that lets users send AI-powered AR characters through iMessage, which come to life via the recipient's iPhone camera and react to surroundings in real time. The startup, fou…
HIVE Digital Technologies acquired the 32 MW Big Boden data center in Sweden, transitioning from tenant to owner, and plans to upgrade the facility to Tier III standards for enterprise AI workloads powered by hydroelectr…
NeuralTrust, a Barcelona startup, raised $20 million in seed funding to secure AI agents that large companies deploy faster than they can track. The round was led by Alstin Capital, with the company positioning itself as…
HIVE Digital Technologies subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing signed a three-year, $220 million GPU cloud agreement with Bell AI Fabric to deploy 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs at a facility in Merritt, British…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted that AI will create more jobs for humans, not replace them, during an appearance at VivaTech Paris. He argued that the technology will unlock new opportunities and increase demand for …
Mistral AI is developing Code and Apps features for its web platform Vibe (Le Chat), moving beyond conversation toward a full product platform. The Code section brings coding agents to the browser, while the Apps area al…
Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of the Gemini models, announced he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Shazeer is a co-author of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introdu…
Midjourney, the AI image-generation company, announced a full-body medical scanner at a San Francisco event on June 17, claiming it outperforms MRI machines in speed and safety. The device, built with ultrasound firm But…
Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton criticized Elon Musk's xAI and warned of growing risks in AI development, declining an advisory role at the company. Hinton raised concerns about job displacement, safety fa…
Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation to provide hedge funds and law firms with private, self-hosted AI infrastructure. The company launched an encrypted AI workspa…
Digital agencies are hitting a wall between their 50th and 100th active client as AI tools like ChatGPT absorb tasks that once anchored invoices, squeezing retainers. Thriving agencies are shifting to productized service…