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Anthropic's shares are trading on secondary markets at an implied valuation of $1.2 trillion, a 550% jump in a year, driven by extreme scarcity as almost no employees or early investors are selling. The valuation, which …
AI companies captured 65% of US venture dollars in 2025, but the funding is concentrated in megadeals while small seed rounds shrank 20%. Only about one in six seed-stage AI startups reaches a Series A within two years, …
US venture capital hit a record $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but AI companies absorbed 86% of that capital, and deals over $100 million accounted for 91% of total investment, leaving non-AI startups and emer…
SK Hynix, a major memory chip maker, surged over 200% on the Seoul exchange this year and listed its depositary receipts on Nasdaq on Friday, raising about $26.5 billion in what is expected to be the world's second-large…
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut on July 10, the largest first-time US listing, highlighting the high cost of memory chips that AI startups must pay.
ICONIQ's 2026 State of AI report, based on a survey of 305 executives, reveals that AI products now account for nearly half of revenue at software companies, with open-source models rising to 40% of the app layer and age…
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz is converting a former Bitcoin mining campus in Texas into a $15 billion AI data center complex, signing a 15-year lease with CoreWeave for 800 MW of capacity. The project, which has att…
Crusoe launched serverless fine-tuning and inference services on its Intelligence Foundry platform, enabling enterprise AI teams to customize open-weight models without managing GPU infrastructure. The move reflects a ma…
SK Hynix, the South Korean memory chipmaker, began trading on the Nasdaq today in the largest-ever U.S. stock listing by a foreign company, offering American depositary shares to investors. The company, a key supplier of…
OpenClaw, KiloClaw, and Hermes Agent are three competing AI agent platforms that allow users to deploy autonomous digital employees capable of executing tasks such as email management, sales tracking, and code writing. O…
Gradium, a Paris-based voice AI startup backed by Nvidia, raised $100M to commercialize its audio-native language model that achieves sub-200ms latency, beating human conversation turn-taking baselines. The company's API…
NVIDIA expanded partnerships with cloud providers in Q1 2026 to offer scalable AI computing solutions, inviting a new class of partners to build on its accelerated compute infrastructure. The company's vision of 'AI fact…
A new category of AI-powered business diagnostics tools is emerging to replace traditional dashboards, which founders find overwhelming and unhelpful for decision-making. These tools, such as Rasa Intelligence, analyze d…
An engineer outlines a rigorous pre-renewal audit for AI contracts, recommending six months of raw usage data, user interviews, honest switching-cost modeling, a current market evaluation, and a check of vendor roadmap p…
SK Hynix, a leading memory chip maker, launched its U.S. stock market debut with a $26.5 billion ADR offering on the Nasdaq, the largest-ever U.S. IPO by a foreign company, as demand for its high bandwidth memory chips s…
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its US share sale, surpassing Alibaba's 2014 IPO to become the largest debut offering by a foreign company in American market history. The South Korean chipmaker's offering was more than …
Taiwanese DRAM maker Nanya Technology plans to spend approximately $6 billion in 2027 to expand capacity amid an AI-driven memory shortage. The company's aggressive build-out, focused on a new fab that could double produ…
Ollama, a Palo Alto-based developer platform for open-weight AI models, raised $65 million in Series B funding. The company, with 14 employees and serving 8.9 million developers, aims to become the platform layer for AI.
The US government is negotiating equity stakes in AI firms, with OpenAI offering a 5% stake and Senator Sanders proposing 50% with board seats. This dual role as investor and regulator could influence AI regulation and I…
AI Humanizer claims to have developed an algorithm that mimics human conversational nuances to make AI interactions more relatable, but the company has yet to release data proving its technology improves customer satisfa…