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Nvidia is backing Hydra Host, a startup that raised $100 million in Series A funding to build a marketplace for renting GPU capacity, effectively commoditizing Nvidia's own chips. The company, founded in 2021 for crypto …
Brent Ozar is discontinuing SQL ConstantCare and the Consultant Toolkit due to increasing AI-driven security risks, lower-than-expected cloud adoption, and insufficient product adoption. The company is also laying off lo…
Probably raised $9 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz to build a more reliable AI system that prevents hallucinations and factual errors. The startup's first product is a data science tool that uses a deter…
SpaceX has finalized a $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, founded by 25-year-old former Google intern Michael Truell. The deal marks one of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories, with Truell now wort…
Oracle plans to raise up to $50 billion in 2026 to fund a massive AI infrastructure buildout across the US, Japan, Malaysia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The company reported OCI revenue surged 93% year over year to $5.…
A developer argues that technology, particularly AI and social media, has not made life easier but has instead turned parents into comparison machines by constantly exposing them to others' achievements. The piece critiq…
SpaceX has acquired Cursor, a competitor to Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, for $60 billion in June 2026, following a $10 billion partnership in April. The deal aims to leverage xAI's Colossus infrastructure to scale Cur…
Aleksei and the founder of Wayy.ai built a self-driving LinkedIn sales agent after 10+ years in corporate sales, scrapping a traditional sequencer to focus on autonomous outreach for founders and solopreneurs. The tool, …
Clearlake Capital closed its eighth flagship fund with $14.8 billion in commitments to invest in AI-driven transformation and sector-focused strategies. The fundraise attracted nearly 300 global investors and has already…
A viral meme about a fictional AI model called 'Le Chaton Fat' from French startup Mistral has spread across tech circles, despite the model being fake. The joke emerged after Mistral rebranded its chatbot and gained tra…
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a wheeled robot with two arms and no legs, on Tuesday. The startup plans to produce dozens by year-end for manufacturers, logistics firms, and labs, aiming to become a dominant player in general-…
Voice AI startup Bland raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, after being rejected by 180 investors during Y Combinator. The company, which handles over 3.5 million calls per week using …
Tailscale, a Toronto startup, updated its Aperture product with features targeting shadow AI, corporate data access, and agent controls to help businesses manage rapidly evolving AI tools.
Freddy del Barrio, founder of Companion AI, argues that healthcare's biggest gap is human connection, not efficiency. His startup focuses on using AI to provide continuity of emotional and life context for patients, star…
Anthropic, an AI company that has pushed for stronger safety protocols, faced a White House clampdown on its latest models over security risks, highlighting the tension between AI safety advocacy and commercial competiti…
Databricks launched an updated Startup Program offering venture-backed startups up to $200k in credits for Databricks and Neon, along with hands-on guidance and go-to-market opportunities. The program targets early-stage…
Blockmate Ventures is advancing an AI infrastructure opportunity in Wyoming and has launched an investor roadshow to promote the initiative.
Elon Musk's SpaceX has overtaken Amazon to become the world's fifth most valuable company after its share price surged more than 50% following its Nasdaq listing. The boost came as SpaceX announced it is acquiring AI cod…
Rackspace Technology shares surged 30% on June 16 after signing a definitive agreement with AMD to deploy 30 megawatts of AMD-based AI compute capacity across its global data centers through 2028. The deal formalizes a p…
Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO, which includes Starlink and xAI, has been approved by U.S. regulators, generating $75 billion for Musk despite widespread criticism that the valuation is inflated and the companies are unprofitabl…