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Anthropic passed OpenAI in quarterly revenue for the first time, reporting $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue with a $559 million operating profit, while OpenAI's Q2 revenue rose 18% sequentially to $6.7 billion but operating l…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands meeting that the company will go public in 2027, settling an internal split with CEO Sam Altman, who had pushed for a 2026 debut. OpenAI also disclosed that safety mo…
Anything, a San Francisco-based startup founded by former Google product leads Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe, has raised $11 million at a $100 million valuation from Footwork, Uncork Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and …
Serval, a $1 billion AI startup, launched Catalyst, an AI agent that automates enterprise workflows by mining ticket histories and generating code, aiming to replace ServiceNow. CEO Jake Stauch claims Serval's AI-native …
OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar announced that the company plans to hold an initial public offering in 2027. The statement was made during a recent event, marking the first time OpenAI has provided a specific …
FORT Robotics, a company focused on physical AI safety with customers including Google DeepMind and DoorDash, is going public via a SPAC. Founder and CEO Sam Reeves discussed the technology and the company's partnership …
Anthropic's revenue run rate has topped $65 billion ahead of the lab's planned mega-IPO, while OpenAI announced it will expand its advertising product to dozens of new markets across Europe and launched a version of Chat…
Barclays initiated coverage of Bitdeer Technologies Group with an Overweight rating and a $15 price target, implying roughly 56% upside from the stock's $9.63 trading price, citing the Bitcoin miner's pivot to AI and hig…
Shares of Unitree, a Chinese humanoid robot manufacturer, surged nearly six-fold on its Shanghai STAR Market debut, raising its market valuation to approximately $50 billion and making it China's first mainland-listed hu…
Venture capital portfolio reviews are becoming more urgent as AI advances rapidly, making 2024's promising deals look like mistakes by 2026, according to investors interviewed by Fortune. Kamran Ansari of Kapital Venture…
Ali Hussain's New York AI finance startup Tabs was last valued at about $400 million and had raised around $90 million, according to Hussain in a Crunchbase News profile. The company, founded in 2023, has roughly 180 emp…
Jeff Yew, head of Monochrome Asset Management, plans to revive the former Network School campus at Malaysia's $100 billion Forest City ghost town as a hub for crypto and AI entrepreneurs, months after authorities shut do…
Elia Zaitsev, Global Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike, is leaving the company after 13 years to launch a $170 million fund focused on AI-driven cybersecurity, with his last day set for August 20, 2026. Zaitsev, wh…
Callosum Technologies, a London-based startup founded by Cambridge-trained neuroscientists Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg, has raised $110M in cumulative funding, including a $100M seed round led by Atomico, to buil…
Endothermal Systems has developed CinderClock, a standalone desktop alarm clock designed to replace phone alarms, citing failures of the iPhone alarm and the high cost of existing alternatives such as the Philips SmartSl…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July 2025, nearly double OpenAI's $40 billion, as the AI startup prepares for an IPO expected in October. Anthropic's Q2 revenue surged to $11.5 billi…
HappyRobot, a San Francisco-based logistics AI startup, closed a $150 million Series C on August 4 at a $1.22 billion post-money valuation, led by Prysm Capital with Eurazeo co-leading and participation from a16z, Base10…
Twin1 AI, a San Mateo and London-based startup creating AI 'digital twins' of individual employees, has raised $20m (£15m) in seed funding co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners and Aramco Ventures…
Jeff Dean, former Google senior fellow, left the company after 27 years to found Discovery Loop, a four-person AI startup focused on automating science and engineering, and said at a Stanford University talk on August 7 …
Kuaishou reported that its Kling AI video-generation business generated more than RMB850 million in revenue in Q2 2026, up over 200% year on year and 30% from the previous quarter, while total revenue rose 1.4% to RMB35.…