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Conduct, a London-based AI startup founded by former Palantir engineers, raised a $60mn Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ, with SAP investing. The company builds an AI operating system that maps custom enterpr…
Pramaana Labs, an AI startup founded by Ranjan Rajagopalan, raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to develop formal verification systems for large language models. The company targets rule-heavy domai…
Google announced its first new smart speaker in six years, the $99 Google Home Speaker, which ships June 25. The device is built around Gemini for Home, but key features like Gemini Live and Home Briefs require a $10/mon…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attended a working lunch with G7 leaders in France on June 17, days after US export controls on Anthropic's models triggered a global access shutdown and renewed Europ…
Pramaana Labs, a San Francisco-based AI startup, raised a $27M seed round led by Khosla Ventures to build a verification layer for AI that makes outputs provable in high-stakes industries like law, healthcare, and tax co…
Pramaana Labs raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to apply formal verification to AI systems, targeting high-stakes fields like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation. The startup combines large l…
The US Department of Commerce awarded AI startup SandboxAQ $500 million under the CHIPS Act to develop new semiconductor materials, reducing reliance on Chinese supply chains. The government takes an equity stake and roy…
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb's Third Point hedge fund sold oil and steel holdings in Q1 2026 and bought $40.8 million worth of Hut 8 Corp shares, betting on the former Bitcoin miner's pivot to AI data centers. The move …
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb's Third Point hedge fund acquired a $40.8 million stake in Hut 8 Corp., a Bitcoin miner pivoting to AI data centers, during Q1 2026. The investment reflects growing institutional interest in…
Klipy, a GIF and meme content startup, raised $3.8 million from Google's AI Futures Fund and venture capital firms to grow its platform, which lets users create and share GIFs, stickers, and video clips. The company aims…
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb's hedge fund Third Point held 275,000 shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as of Q1 2026, making TSMC his top AI bet, while reducing its Nvidia stake and adding Bitcoin miner…
Autonomique, a Montreal- and Menlo Park-based startup, has moved its AI-powered robot control technology beyond the pilot phase and is now assembling car parts on a production line at F&P Manufacturing in Ontario. CEO Vi…
Sinclair has invested in IRCODE, a computer vision startup that enables interactive and shoppable TV, and will roll out the technology in Salt Lake City and Austin starting July 2026. The system lets viewers use their ph…
AI will transform biopharma unevenly, with drug discovery becoming abundant while clinical development remains the binding constraint. Companies that build durable positions around the development bottleneck, rather than…
Conduct, a London-based startup founded in 2024 by former Palantir engineers, raised $60 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures and Iconiq, with strategic investment from SAP. The company builds an agentic AI …
Nitrosend launched an AI-native email platform called Email for Codex that operates within AI agents like Codex, ChatGPT, and Claude Code, enabling users to build transactional emails, automated flows, and newsletters fr…
US convertible bond issuance hit roughly $34 billion in the first four months of 2026, more than double the same period last year, with about half of the deals tied to AI companies. AI firms like CoreWeave are using conv…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai executed a 10-move restructuring in 18 months after ChatGPT's launch, merging Brain and DeepMind into Google DeepMind and reorganizing the company to deploy AI products. Pichai viewed the ChatGPT…
Twenty, a startup building AI-enabled offensive cyber weapons for the US military and intelligence community, raised a $100 million Series B led by Accel, valuing it at $1 billion. The company aims to industrialize cyber…
Entrepreneurs are increasingly managing teams of AI agents to handle customer service, scheduling, bookkeeping, email management, and research, using platforms like OpenClaw. A Nasdaq Economic Institute report cited by A…