AI Startups

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted that Micron will surpass Meta in market value, identified power supply shortages as the tech industry's biggest hurdle, and stated that AI's role is shifting from answering quest…

Salesforce acquires Fin, the customer-service AI company formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6bn to integrate its autonomous support agent technology into Salesforce's Agentforce platform. The deal, expected to close in Q…

Salesforce announced it will acquire Fin, an AI agent developer, in a deal valued at $3.6 billion, marking a major investment in AI-powered enterprise tools.

Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire AI customer service agent company Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, continuing its aggressive AI acquisition spree that already includes Informatica and Convergence.ai. The …

Tencent-backed AI chip startup Enflame won approval for a 6 billion yuan ($888m) IPO on Shanghai's STAR board, becoming the last of China's 'four AI chip dragons' to go public. The company, which relies on Tencent for 84…

Salesforce announced it will acquire Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6 billion to enhance its AI agent capabilities. The deal brings Fin's proprietary AI model and customer agent platform to Salesforce, aiming to accelera…

Radical Numerics, a startup founded by researchers who built AI models capable of generating DNA, emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital. The company develops multimodal AI that reads…

Similarweb Ltd. announced it has surpassed $300 million in Annual Recurring Revenue and signed two multi-year enterprise contracts worth approximately $47 million in total contract value, reflecting accelerating demand f…

A developer recounts a night spent debugging a chatbot that returned blank strings due to a proprietary API's rate limiter, advocating for open-weight models and a unified gateway to avoid vendor lock-in. The developer r…

SpaceX's IPO closed up 19%, pushing its valuation above $2 trillion in a historic debut, but the windfall is concentrated among top-tier VCs and asset managers, highlighting a bifurcated venture market. The success raise…

Shareholder activists are increasingly targeting companies over their artificial intelligence strategies, criticizing slow adoption and vague communication. During the 2026 proxy season, activists like Starboard Value, E…

Nvidia invested in Hydra Host's Series A funding round, which raised approximately $70 million, to expand AI compute resources. The startup operates bare metal GPU clusters across 40-50 locations and aims to convert data…

SpaceX's record $75 billion IPO left customers of crypto exchanges like Bybit and Binance with reduced or no allocations of tokenized SpaceX stock, due to limited shares for retail investors. The shortfall highlights sup…

Patsnap, an AI-powered intellectual property analytics firm backed by SoftBank, Tencent, and Sequoia Capital, has filed confidentially for a dual IPO in Hong Kong and Singapore that could raise up to $400 million. The co…

Several former Nvidia employees have left the company to launch their own AI startups, citing the financial cushion from Nvidia's stock gains and relative stability amid industry layoffs. One example is Antons Davis, who…

Business Insider reports that eight subscribers, from college students to CTOs, pay $1,200 to $2,400 annually for Anthropic's Claude Max, the company's highest-tier consumer plan. A 23-year-old subscriber, Drew Dawson, c…

AIVA, an AI-native mobility brand backed by Seres Group and launched by Saidou Technology, debuted in Beijing on June 9, 2026, with a partnership with ByteDance's Volcano Engine to co-develop in-vehicle intelligence usin…

Canada-based startup Legacy Keeper launched on June 15, 2026 as an AI-powered estate-planning platform for financial advisors and families. The platform processes wills, trusts, and insurance documents, flags risks, and …

The Kazakh government, Firebird, and NVIDIA signed a $10 billion package of agreements to develop AI infrastructure in Kazakhstan, including the Data Center Valley project in Ekibastuz. Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov ann…

Peel Hunt CEO Steven Fine said SpaceX's record $75bn IPO could reignite British retail investor interest in equity markets, citing high demand for shares allocated to UK investors and upcoming floats from AI firms Anthro…