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Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek, is now the wealthiest AI founder with a net worth of about $36bn, surpassing Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Greg Brockman, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The rev…
Anthropic has launched Indian rupee-denominated pricing for its Claude AI subscription plans, with the Claude Pro plan priced at Rs 2,033.05 per month plus GST, the Claude Max plan at Rs 11,999 per month inclusive of GST…
London-based Valarian raised $50 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates to develop infrastructure governance tools for AI, differentiating itself from other European AI startups that focus on sovere…
Vogue Business asked fashion tech leaders what they are reading this summer, highlighting books that explore AI ethics, brand-building, and entrepreneurial thinking. Julie Bornstein, founder and CEO of Daydream, recommen…
Björn Goß, who sold Stocard to Klarna in 2021, has raised €12 million from Headline to launch Skalar, a tax and accounting firm built around artificial intelligence. The company aims to modernize the industry by using AI…
Bespoke Labs raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Wing VC to build realistic training environments for AI agents, arguing that agents fail not because models are too small but because they lack practice in compl…
Samsung Electronics' foundry division has reportedly agreed to manufacture custom AI chips for Anthropic, according to local media sources cited by social media account @WhaleInsider. The deal, if confirmed, would make S…
Neura Robotics closed a $1.4 billion Series C at a ~$7 billion valuation backed by Amazon, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Bosch, and the European Investment Bank, marking the first time a European government-backed financial institut…
China's new Five-Year Plan omits a numerical target for urban job creation for the first time in decades, as unemployment stands at 5.1% and producer prices hit a four-year high amid AI-driven labor market anxiety. Separ…
TSMC and ASML, the two companies that form the foundational infrastructure layer of the AI boom, report Q2 2026 earnings on July 15 and 16 respectively, with TSMC posting NT$442.68 billion in June revenue (68% year-over-…
China's AI-native applications reached 499 million monthly active users (MAU) by May 2026, an 85.4% surge year-over-year, according to a QuestMobile report published July 14. ByteDance's Doubao leads with 382 million MAU…
Monvera, an AI-powered broker built on Virtuals Protocol, launched on July 14 with its $MONVERA token and direct access to roughly 95 tokenized equities on Robinhood Chain, enabling users to execute trades and manage por…
Indian IT services firm LTM expects revenue from artificial intelligence to surpass its traditional services business, CEO Venu Lambu told Reuters on Monday, as the company disclosed AI-native revenue of $150 million on …
Promptwatch, an Amsterdam startup founded in 2025 by Gijs de Groot and Klaas Foppen, raised EUR6 million in seed funding to automate generative engine optimization (GEO) for brands. The round was led by seed + speed Vent…
Prolo, a startup founded by James Morris-Manuel, has raised £4.2 million to use AI and credit to solve payment delays for contractors, who often wait months to get paid. The company initially focused on procurement but p…
A new free benchmark tool from Agent Benchmarks lets engineering teams assess their AI agent maturity in five minutes by rating autonomy, integration, and other factors on a 1–5 scale, based on data from hundreds of disc…
GMI Cloud, a GPU cloud provider operating over 30,000 Nvidia H100, H200, and Blackwell chips in US data centers, is seeking $635 million in GPU-backed financing with Nvidia's reported support. The deal would use the comp…
Nous Research is raising at least $75 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for Hermes Agent, an open-source autonomous AI agent that has amassed 214,000 GitHub stars in under six months, according to a TechCrunch report o…
Google's dominance in search is being challenged by AI, and Promptwatch has raised €6 million to help brands adapt to the shift. The startup's funding round highlights the growing need for tools that navigate the decline…
Augmodo, a Seattle startup that sells a dual-camera wearable badge for retail workers, raised $21 million in a round led by TQ Ventures at a $350 million valuation, with plans to expand into warehouses, factories and hos…