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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.…
Independent developers often fail to monetize AI tools because they market the technology itself rather than the outcome. A developer advises hiding AI from feature descriptions, tying AI features to existing paid workfl…
Callosum, a London AI infrastructure startup founded by Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg, has raised $100 million in seed financing led by Atomico, with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK's Sovereign AI Fund,…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the unified interface for large language models launched in 2023, which has grown to support over 500 models and a 4.5+ quadrillion-token annual run rate. Menlo Ventures, which le…
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford professor and cofounder of World Labs, said in a Bloomberg interview released Wednesday that she runs her AI startup like a 'tiger mom,' setting high standards for her young team. World Labs, which L…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, reported an annualized revenue run rate above $65 billion as of the end of July, up from approximately $47 billion in May and around $9 billion at the end of 2025, according …
As publishers and advertisers race to serve ads to AI agents, measurement remains opaque and no standard has emerged, according to startups OpenAds and Oasy. OpenAds uses unique referral codes that survive AI retrieval, …
Ramp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh launched Ramp Router on August 19th, offering a no-fee AI gateway through 2026 with $26 in credits per account, but OpenRouter, which Stripe acquired for over $7 billion on t…
Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies, a Beijing-based AI robotics firm, is set to take investor orders for a Hong Kong IPO targeting approximately $300 million (HK$2.34 billion) after clearing its HKEX listing hearing on Augu…
AI startup founder Dima Eremin says London is becoming more attractive than Silicon Valley for AI businesses, citing UK regulations and cost advantages. Eremin's company Bluedot, which has $4m ARR and raised just $500k, …
A $21 billion startup dubbed 'Kids in Chips' is hiring engineers from Nvidia, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which has not been named in the article, is attracting top talent from the leading AI chipm…
China's Mech-Mind Robotics, a developer of 3D cameras and AI software for robots, is set to open its order book for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise about US$300 million, up from a US$200 million target a year ago, with …
Veeda AI, a startup founded by former Nvidia Corp. researcher Sanja Fidler, has raised $90 million in a seed funding round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, one of the largest seed financings ever for a Can…
Abundant, an AI training data company founded by former Waymo, Google, Mercor, and AWS engineers, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Research Intern for Winter 2027 in San Francisco, offering $10k/yr. The intern will…
Anthropic has expanded its pre-IPO credit facility to over $10 billion, up from $2.5 billion, signaling strong financial backing as it prepares for its initial public offering. Prediction markets show increased confidenc…
Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, is in talks to raise funding at a $40 billion valuation after achieving a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in under two years, according to Bloomberg. The startup's gr…
Sirius, founded by Azamat Khamidov and Benazir Toleubekova, emerged from a16z Speedrun Cohort 006 with an AI platform that automates customer retention decisions when subscribers attempt to cancel, announcing the acceler…
Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it is acquiring OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, a major jump from the startup's $1.3 billion valuation in May, with founders receiving $1.5 billion and investors $6 billion. The deal, whic…