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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…
SAP's acquisition of tabular foundation model startup Prior Labs for over €1 billion ($1.16 billion) has spotlighted the emerging category of TFMs, which are designed to handle structured data like spreadsheets that larg…
Prevalent AI, a London company that consolidates fragmented enterprise data into a sovereign knowledge graph, announced a $22 million growth investment from Integrity Growth Partners, its first primary capital in nine ye…
HappyRobot, a Spanish-US startup founded in 2022, reached a $1.2 billion valuation after closing a $143 million Series C round this month. The company builds AI agents to automate complex enterprise work, initially focus…
Gwyneth Paltrow is expanding her wellness empire into artificial intelligence, investing in AI startups such as Forethought AI, Speechify, Potion AI, and Moments of Space, and planning a private dinner for OpenAI CEO Sam…
Anthropic generated $11.5 billion in second-quarter revenue, nearly 73% more than OpenAI's $6.7 billion, and posted a small operating profit while OpenAI's operating loss widened to $12.3 billion, according to The Wall S…
Chinese robot developer Unitree surged 460% on its first day of trading on Wednesday, marking the first pure-play robotics company to go public in mainland China. The Hangzhou-based maker of AI-powered humanoid robots an…
LivePerson shareholders vote Thursday, August 20, 2026, on SoundHound AI's $3.33-per-share acquisition offer, a deal backed by proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis. The combined company would…
Nebius Group is raising $4.5 billion through a private convertible note sale to fund data center expansion and AI platform development, with $2.75 billion in notes due 2030 and $1.75 billion due 2034. The Amsterdam-based…
Rundoo Inc., the creator of an AI-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $48 million. The company, which s…
Shares in Unitree, one of China's largest manufacturers of humanoid robots, surged by more than 460% on their first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, lifting the company's valuation to around $66 billion, ahead o…
Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in quarterly revenue for the first time, with Anthropic reporting $11.6 billion in revenue for the quarter ending in June versus OpenAI's $6.7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.…
Unitree's upcoming Chinese IPO is reportedly 8,000X oversubscribed, signaling strong investor appetite for pure-play robotics exposure, according to 24/7 Wall St. analysts Austin Smith and Eric Bleeker on The AI Investor…
World Labs co-founder Fei-Fei Li said in a Bloomberg Technology interview published Wednesday that her company aims to teach AI to understand and act in three-dimensional space, moving beyond chatbots that can only descr…
Nebius Group raised approximately $4.3 billion through a convertible bond offering that closed on March 20, upsizing from an initial $3.75 billion target, to fund AI data center expansion, cloud platform development, glo…
Vivodyne opened a human-tissue data center near San Francisco that uses HIVE robots to generate human biological data for training drug-discovery AI, with each HIVE capable of testing 10,000 tissues at once and returning…
Prevalent AI Ltd., a cybersecurity data company, has raised $22 million in growth funding from Integrity Growth Partners, marking its first outside capital since its founding nine years ago. The company, which has been p…
Vivodyne, a biotech startup spun out of the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, has built HIVE, modular robotic labs that grow 20 kinds of human tissue and autonomously dose and monitor them, aiming to generate causal bi…
Y Combinator's Winter and Summer 2026 batches include 32 robotics/physical AI startups, matching the number of AI infrastructure companies, according to an analysis of 208 startups. Of the total, 145 are tagged AI, 24 ar…
U.S. venture capital funding reached a record high in the first half of 2026, but 86% of it went to AI companies, up from 65% last year, with OpenAI and Anthropic alone capturing 53% of all venture dollars. J.P. Morgan's…