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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…
Global AI infrastructure buildout is driving a surge in capital spending, with semiconductor sales reaching $791.7 billion in 2025 and on track to near $1 trillion in 2026, according to a GlobeNewswire press release dist…
Jeff Bezos is backing CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, in a funding round that values the company at $2.6bn. The round, led by Bezos Expeditions and Kleiner Perkins, would qu…
Odyssey, an AI lab building real-time world models, raised $310 million in Series B funding led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google's GV, EQT, and In-Q-Tel participating. The round notably excludes Nvid…
Cloudflare launched its Cloudflare One Design Partner Designation to accelerate secure AI and SASE adoption, equipping select global partners with deep technical expertise. The program includes the Cloudflare One Stack f…
Convey, a startup building AI teammates, raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures and Pear VC participating. The company aims to automate repetitive tasks for employees, dis…
Paradromics, a competitor to Neuralink, implanted its Connexus brain-chip in a Michigan woman with motor neuron disease to restore speech. The FDA-approved procedure at University of Michigan Health marks the startup's f…
AT&T has begun limiting some employees' access to GitHub Copilot, and Meta is reining in staff spending on Anthropic and other AI tools, marking a shift from 'tokenmaxxing' to 'tokenminimizing' as enterprise AI costs sur…
Tenet Security emerged from stealth on June 17 with $6 million in seed funding to police AI agents before they go rogue. The New York-based startup's patent-pending simulation technology predicts and blocks dangerous aut…
Figma shares rose in premarket trading after Citigroup initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $36 price target, citing AI-driven demand and monetization potential. Analyst Tyler Radke highlighted strong seat upgrades…
Databricks announced new partner program features at DAIS, including the ability for customers to use pre-committed spend on Marketplace purchases, and support for listing Databricks Apps and Genie Agents. The company ai…
US officials restricted access to Anthropic's cybersecurity AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5 after finding safeguards could be bypassed, blocking foreign nationals and prompting Anthropic to shut down access for all users.…
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) committed up to ₹70 billion ($741 million) to Indian data center operator CtrlS, acquiring an 8.2% stake and forming a joint venture to develop hyperscale data cente…
A developer breaks down the real monthly costs of running a single-Rails-app SaaS, finding that hosting can be as low as €4.79/month on Hetzner with Kamal, but total costs including Stripe fees, object storage, transacti…