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Nvidia is in discussions to invest in AI data marketplace Mercor at a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth since its Series C round nine months ago. Mercor, which counts OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia among its clien…
Temporal Technologies, a durable execution platform founded in 2019, is in talks to raise approximately $500 million at a valuation exceeding $12 billion, according to Bloomberg. The company, which counts OpenAI as its l…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 50 fellows selected for its inaugural 8-week Talent Engineer Fellowship, an AI-focused program for talent leaders building AI-native recruiting systems. The cohort includes talent…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate topped $65 billion by the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and about $9 billion at the end of 2025, according to a person familiar with the company's financial updates, putt…
Unitree, the world's largest humanoid robot maker, surged more than 600% on its Shanghai stock market debut Wednesday, with shares hitting 1,100 yuan ($120.39) before paring gains to nearly 500%. The company, officially …
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway and routing platform that helps businesses optimize token usage across 400+ models from more than 80 providers. T…
Payments firm Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, a marketplace for AI models, in a deal aimed at expanding Stripe's AI capabilities. The acquisition, announced on [date], underscores Stripe's push into the AI secto…
OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace and gateway processing 10+ trillion tokens daily from 400+ models for over 10 million developers, announced it is joining Stripe, the financial infrastructure platform, to accelerate …
Investor Jake Saper of Emergence Capital is promoting AINS, or AI-Native Services, as the next frontier for startups, predicting that accounting, insurance, and legal industries will be transformed by AI-native firms tha…
Silicon Data closed a $30 million Series A to become the reference price for GPU rental and an index for Wall Street futures contracts. The company plans to launch compute futures trading on the CME on October 5, pending…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace and routing platform, in a deal reportedly valued at more than $7 billion. OpenRouter processes over 10 trillion tokens per day across more than 400 AI mod…
Goldman Sachs global co-head of investment banking Matthew McClure declared the IPO market 'open for business,' noting that AI-related companies have generated more than 50% of all IPO capital raised this year despite re…
Michael Burry, the investor known from 'The Big Short,' warned in a Substack post on Tuesday that Nvidia faces 'serious competition' from AI startup Etched, which has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation and co…
Applied Materials Inc. shares fell 4% to $494.82, while Lam Research Corp. and Teradyne Inc. each dropped 5% to $309.94 and $384.26, respectively, as investors repriced AI infrastructure spending amid reports that nine t…
Coinbase's Base launched a startup accelerator for AI agents, payments, and financing products, investing $100,000 in each of 10 teams. The initiative aims to foster innovation in agentic finance and on-chain payments, p…
Coinbase's Base layer-2 network announced on Wednesday that its Batches 004 startup accelerator will select 10 pre-seed startups, each receiving a $100,000 investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund, with applications open …
Pocket, an AI notetaker hardware startup, says it has reached a $100 million run rate eight months after launching, with cofounder and CEO Akshay Narisetti projecting a $1 billion run rate within two years. The company, …
Anthropic currently has the most stable leadership among frontier AI labs, with the Amodei siblings still at the helm and low turnover, while OpenAI carries the highest churn exposure ahead of an $852 billion IPO and Dee…
Sanja Fidler, former leader of Nvidia's Toronto AI lab, has launched Veeda AI, a startup backed by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, to develop world models for robotics. The company aims to improve how robots intera…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree surged 460% in its Shanghai IPO on Wednesday, raising 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in the first mainland China robotics public debut. The Hangzhou-based firm, backed by DeepSeek an…