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California captured 70% of all U.S. venture capital funding in the year ended June, with Bay Area companies receiving $411 billion of the $589 billion total, primarily to fund artificial intelligence supremacy, according…
US IPOs have raised $92 billion from venture-backed companies in the first half of 2026, nearing the 2021 annual record of $142.4 billion, but aftermarket performance has lagged, with SpaceX shares closing below their IP…
Klipy.ai, an AI-powered CRM that automates sales back-office operations, has reached a 5-figure monthly recurring revenue after launching in November 2024, serving around 4,000 companies worldwide. Founder Jung Hong Kim,…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on Thursday, the largest open-weight AI system in the world, which topped Arena's frontend coding leaderboard within a day and placed third on Artificial Analysis's Intelli…
A new platform called sellbonds.now lets AI agents autonomously issue and repay bonds on the Base mainnet, enabling them to raise capital without human intermediaries. The project envisions a future where AI agents are c…
Kazakhstan and China signed over 70 commercial agreements worth more than $15 billion at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 16, with deals spanning AI infrastructure, EV battery manufacturing, and a Caspian Sea …
Elorian, a Palo Alto-based startup building visual-reasoning AI, has raised $55 million in seed funding at a $300 million post-money valuation before shipping a product. The round was co-led by Striker Ventures, Menlo Ve…
Fora, a New York-based platform that recruits career-changers as travel advisors and equips them with AI-powered tools, has raised $60 million in a Series D round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Tactile Ventures, reach…
Alphabet shares closed down roughly 4.5% on July 16, wiping out approximately $200 billion in market capitalization after Bloomberg reported that Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model is months behind schedule due to coding p…
Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a secondary Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, above the $3bn floated in April, according to Bloomberg. The company's 800G and 1.6T…
Chinese startup Moonshot unveiled its Kimi K3 AI model on Friday, which is being hailed as the world's largest publicly available large language model for download, raising questions about whether this is another DeepSee…
NetApp is acquiring DataPelago, a startup that emerged from stealth in October 2024 with a Nucleus Universal Data Processing Engine (UDPE) that accelerates heterogeneous compute for data analytics and GenAI models, to be…
Software stocks are experiencing a selective sell-off, with multiples on next-twelve-months free cash flow at or below 2014 levels, according to a16z. The market's discount reflects doubt about long-term durability amid …
A New York Times analysis reveals that the artificial intelligence industry is heavily reliant on debt financing, with companies like Oracle issuing billions in bonds to fund AI infrastructure, raising concerns about a p…
Moonshot's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source AI model billed as the largest ever, helped trigger a global tech and semiconductor selloff on Friday, reviving comparisons to the DeepSeek shock. The rout was mul…
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, alleging misconduct by OpenAI's chief hardware officer and claiming more than 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. The lawsuit threatens OpenAI's …
Upper90 has provided General Compute with a $400 million credit facility secured by SambaNova SN50 inference chips, marking the first major AI infrastructure loan backed by non-Nvidia hardware. The deal, structured by Up…
Manufact (YC S25), the company behind the open-source mcp-use SDK with 10k GitHub stars and 8M+ downloads, is hiring a senior infrastructure engineer to build its MCP cloud platform, which is used by 20% of the US 500 in…
The semiconductor sector lost over $1 trillion in market value in under two months, with the VanEck Semiconductor ETF dropping 5% in a single session, even as demand data from hyperscalers and chipmakers continued to str…
Investors are rotating out of semiconductor stocks like Samsung, Micron, and AMD into the cybersecurity sector amid concerns over valuation and sustainability of AI infrastructure spending, despite Samsung's expected 1,8…