AI Startups

Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos compared artificial intelligence to a knife, arguing that regulation should target how AI is applied rather than banning the technology itself. Speaking at a CNBC event Thursday, Bezo…

Leading technology executives and venture capitalists warned at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech summit that the U.S. defense supply chain is dangerously unprepared for modern warfare, citing China's chokehold on rare earth e…

Jeff Bezos's AI startup Prometheus raised $12 billion in a funding round at a $41 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. The company, co-led by Bezos and Google veteran V…

Databricks announced its inaugural cohort of Student Fellows, selecting 30 students from over 5,000 applicants across hundreds of universities worldwide. The fellows, chosen for their campus leadership and dedication to …

Nathan Sobo's Zed editor is launching DeltaDB, a version control system designed to capture pre-commit edits and agent conversations that Git does not record. The system aligns with Zed's founding mission to integrate li…

Barcelona-based robotics startup Theker raised an €85m Series A led by US investor CRV, with participation from Samsung and LVMH. The company, founded in 2022, develops AI-powered robots that use deep learning and comput…

OpenAI is evaluating significant cuts to the prices it charges for AI tokens used in models such as ChatGPT, according to The Wall Street Journal. The discussions come days after OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO an…

PhoenixAI, formerly CelerData, raised $80 million in Series B funding led by Sky9 Capital to build an AI-native analytical database designed for agentic workloads. The company will use the capital to expand governance ca…

Lionsgate has taken an equity stake in generative-video company Runway, expanding their 2024 partnership to include a joint development program for new intellectual property and a slate of AI-generated short-form series …

OpenAI announced on June 11, 2026 that it will acquire Ona, a startup providing secure, customer-controlled cloud environments for AI agents, to expand the capabilities of its coding assistant Codex. Ona’s orchestration …

Legal tech startup BrentWorks, Inc. launched CiteSentinel, a platform that scans legal briefs to flag fabricated or erroneous citations by cross-referencing them against verified legal databases. The tool aims to address…

Elon Musk will deliver a virtual keynote at ASML's Technology Conference on June 12, 2026, to pitch his $55 billion Terafab semiconductor megafactory project. The appearance comes as SpaceX prepares for an IPO valued bet…

OpenAI and Anthropic, the two most valuable AI companies, are locked in an escalating rivalry over Pentagon contracts, enterprise customers, and IPO timing, with Anthropic recently surpassing OpenAI's valuation at $965 b…

Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Bosch, and Tether invested up to $1.4 billion in German robotics startup Neura Robotics, marking one of the largest funding rounds in humanoid robotics history. The company plans to deploy its c…

Prismvideos.com replaced its custom-built AI agent with Hermes, an open-source personal agent, to gain built-in features like session management, memory, skills, and automations without engineering them from scratch. The…

Helipad, a new floating macOS panel, tracks all open pull requests created by Claude Code agents across multiple repositories, displaying CI status, review decisions, and merge-conflict warnings in a persistent, always-o…

Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator announced. Hu, a former YC founder whose company Escher Reality was acquired by Niantic in 2018, has worked with nearly 230 companie…

A Florida homeowner is listing his $2.6 million property and will accept shares of OpenAI, Anthropic, or SpaceX as payment, reflecting growing interest in alternative real estate transactions using private tech company s…

Socket appointed Andrew Becherer as its first Chief Information Security Officer. Becherer, former CISO at Datadog and Iterable, will lead security, compliance, and risk as the company protects over 27,000 organizations …

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closed a $12 billion funding round, valuing the company at $41 billion. The company, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in seed funding, is building AI models for physical tasks…