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Investors are speculating about a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla after SpaceX's $85 billion IPO made it worth over $1 trillion more than Tesla. Analysts and investors argue the combination could create synergi…
SpaceX will acquire Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion in stock, giving SpaceX a robust coding agent to compete with rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI. The deal comes days after Space…
A wave of wealth from IPOs at SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia is creating new millionaires in Silicon Valley, but many tech employees face huge capital gains taxes on concentrated stock positions. Wealth manager Jo…
Geoff and Sam Teehan, a father-son duo, aim to transform their AI side project—a viral colour memory game created through vibe-coding—into a sustainable gaming company.
AI-native firms are 25% smaller than non-AI startups, with 13% more engineers and 15% fewer entry-level workers and managers, according to a study by Hyunjin Kim and Rembrand Koning. These firms achieve comparable valuat…
Financial services firms have adopted AI across more tasks than healthcare or media, leading on 27 of 75 AI-supported tasks, according to a PYMNTS Intelligence survey of 60 senior tech executives. While 85% of financial …
Dream, an Israeli AI cybersecurity startup co-founded by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio, raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation, nearly tripling its valuation in a year. The company uses AI for predictive threa…
Bryant Chou, former Webflow CTO and co-founder, raised $27 million in seed funding for Ploy, an AI marketing platform that automates website updates and growth operations after launch. The platform ingests existing sites…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's most popular AI chatbot with 345 million monthly active users, is introducing subscription plans from 688 to 5,088 yuan annually, sparking user backlash and debate over monetization. Critics q…
Anthropic paused a planned billing overhaul for its Claude Agent SDK on June 15, 2026, after developer backlash over proposed tiered credits that would have replaced subscription-based usage. The reversal preserves curre…
SB1 Markets initiated coverage of Karnov with a sell recommendation, warning that the market underestimates AI-related risks. The bank sees new AI-driven legaltech players as direct competitors, not just complementary to…
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is spending billions on AI and shifting to domestic chips, potentially benefiting second-tier Chinese chipmakers like Iluvatar CoreX, Biren Technology, and others. The move comes as US san…
NewCore emerged from stealth on June 15 with $66 million in seed funding to build an identity security layer for AI agents, addressing widespread vulnerabilities where agents use human credentials or shared API keys. The…
China is building a platform to debut new AI consumer products as part of its 'AI Plus' initiative, with over 70 domestic companies developing AI wearables like smart glasses. The initiative aims to embed AI into consume…
OpenAI will open an office in Stockholm in the second half of 2026, its first in the Nordic region. The company cited Sweden's advanced tech ecosystem and engineering talent, as well as its status as one of OpenAI's fast…
Bengaluru-Karnataka has been ranked as Asia's second-best AI-native cluster by Startup Genome, with Bengaluru-headquartered startups raising approximately $79 billion in venture capital funding since 2010. The region ent…
Startup Genome's Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2026 ranks Bengaluru-Karnataka as Asia's second-best AI-native startup cluster and 15th globally, with Bengaluru-based startups raising $79 billion in VC since 2010 and ho…
XDOF, a robotics data infrastructure startup founded by Philipp Wu, Fred Shentu, and Nemo Jin, emerged from stealth on June 17 with $70 million in funding from Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. The …
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, has joined OpenAI. Shazeer had only returned to Google in 2024 from Character.AI as part of a $2.7 billion de…
DeepSeek closed its first external fundraising in a Series A round, raising about 50 billion yuan at a post-investment valuation of 400 billion yuan, making it one of China's most valuable AI startups. Founder Liang Wenf…