AI Startups news and analysis on Web Pulse: 5447 curated articles tracking the latest AI Startups developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
XAI launched the Grok Voice Agent Builder in beta on July 1, featuring a single speech-to-speech model that replaces the traditional three-API voice stack. The platform offers sub-700ms latency and costs $0.05 per minute…
Samsung Electronics reported a 19-fold jump in quarterly profit, but its stock fell up to 10% as investors took profits from the AI-fueled rally, dragging down other chip stocks like Micron, Sandisk, and Western Digital.
Claude Code, an AI coding assistant from Anthropic, enables solo developers to build passive income streams by rapidly creating micro-SaaS products, such as a B2B resume screening tool, reducing development time from mon…
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin launched Savi Security, a startup that protects consumers from AI-generated scams, after their mother nearly fell for a deepfake kidnapping ransom call. The company raised $7 million in…
Norm Ai, an AI legal startup, raised $120 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $1.2 billion. The startup operates its own law firm, Norm Law, which charges clients based on outcomes r…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is developing its own AI inference chips to reduce reliance on third-party providers like Huawei and NVIDIA, according to Reuters. The company is hiring engineers and in talks with manuf…
Karina Portugal, a non-technical sales executive, built a career in fraud prevention by focusing on customer relationships rather than product expertise. She entered the male-dominated field by convincing a Polish startu…
Betting markets are offering odds on the potential IPOs of AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks, reflecting investor sentiment on their public market prospects.
Defense tech startups have raised $12.3 billion in venture funding since the start of 2026, nearly double the amount from the same period last year, as investors shift from generic AI to military-focused autonomy and sen…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai now account for over 30% of traffic on OpenRouter, up from 11% last year, as their costs run 60-90% cheaper than US rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup Lindy saved milli…
Major AI companies are offering free computing power to startups in a bid to capture market share, intensifying competition among cloud providers and AI platform firms.
Luffy AI, an Abingdon startup developing neuroplastic AI for real-time control of physical machines, raised £8.1 million in Series A funding led by BGF. The company's sparse neural networks, trained in simulation and ref…
Chinese startup Deepseek is designing its own AI chip for inference, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, sources told Reuters. The project is early-stage, with Deepseek hiring chip engineers and seeking $7 bi…
DeepSeek chose to partner with Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers rather than building its own AI chips, a decision that signals a strategic shift in China's semiconductor landscape. The AI lab gave Huawei early access …
Boston Dynamics vice president Matt Malchano says AI is enabling autonomous robots to perform complex tasks in workplaces and potentially homes, a shift from 15 years ago when robots could only navigate from point A to B…
Bregal Milestone, a European software private equity firm, closed its third fund at €915 million, exceeding its original hard cap due to strong investor demand. The fund, which focuses on AI, software, and cybersecurity …
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Innovation Project Selection held its 2026 Offline Bootcamp in Shanghai on July 6, 2026, focusing on commercializing AI and biotech projects. The program, which pairs Hong Kong research with Shangh…
Syntiant, a chipmaker specializing in low-power edge AI processors, filed for a US IPO on July 6, planning to list on Nasdaq under SYTN. The company reported $64.5 million in revenue for Q1 fiscal 2026, down from $66.6 m…
The Magnificent Seven tech stocks have lost their market dominance as the AI trade shifts to memory chipmakers like Micron and Sandisk, with the Mag 7 index gaining only 1.1% in 2026 versus the Nasdaq 100's 18% rise. Inv…
OpenAI and Anthropic are offering free compute credits worth millions of dollars to attract startups into their ecosystems, with some individual offers exceeding $3 million. At Y Combinator alone, the two companies could…