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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…
Hexagon AB, the Swedish measurement technology company, saw its stake in Chinese robotics firm Unitree Robotics rise by approximately 4.8 billion Swedish kronor on the first trading day after Unitree's shares surged as m…
VIDRAFT, a Korean AI startup, has released Darwin Family, a training-free model merging framework that uses evolutionary algorithms to combine the parameters of two existing models. Their flagship model, Darwin-27B-Opus,…
Meta is launching Meta Startup School, a three-month programme starting September 1, 2026, to support 200 early-stage consumer brands in India with platform education, agency consultation, and AI-powered tools. The progr…
ARK Invest's ARKW fund sold 3,679 shares of Advanced Micro Devices worth approximately $1.8 million, while its ARKK and ARKW funds purchased 35,089 shares of Cerebras Systems at a combined value of about $7.7 million, co…
Bank of China's Guangzhou branch launched the BOC Computing Power Token Loan in Haizhu district, Guangdong Province, the province's first credit product based on AI computing-power token usage, with credit lines up to 30…
Toronto-based AI startup Blueprint has raised $1.4 million CAD in funding, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), to develop a platform that enables users to turn text prompts into hardware prototypes, described as 'Lovab…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed OpenAI's for the first time, reaching over $65 billion by the end of July 2026, according to verified figures. In the same quarter, Anthropic posted its first operati…
Relativity Networks, led by Luminar Technologies co-founder Jason Eichenholz, has raised $22 million in SAFE financing to commercialize hollow-core fiber technology for AI data centers, with a $40 million follow-on order…
Toronto-based Kodeon has acquired Montréal mental wellness platform Breethe in its fourth and largest acquisition to date, with the deal closing earlier this month for an eight-figure sum consisting primarily of cash plu…
Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou-based maker of backflipping humanoid robots, surged 460% in its stock market debut on Shanghai's STAR Market on Wednesday, closing at 845 yuan ($125.40) per share and valuing the company at…
Medly AI, founded by former NHS doctors Paul Jung and Kavi Samra, raised an $8 million seed round led by Felix Capital to expand its AI-powered exam-preparation tutoring in the UK and launch SAT prep in the US. The round…
Perplexity's India downloads crashed 90% after its free Perplexity Pro offer for Bharti Airtel customers closed to new redemptions on January 16, 2026, but the company's revenue from India rose, according to Sensor Tower…
Etched, a San Jose-based AI chip startup founded by three 24-year-old Harvard dropouts, has raised its valuation to $21 billion after a $700 million funding round led by Jane Street, and has attracted nearly 400 former N…
South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups reported that venture investments reached a record high of 8.87 trillion won ($6.34 billion) in the first half of 2026, up 54.3% from a year earlier, driven by large investment…
Unitree Robotics' initial public offering surged 629% from its IPO price, closing up 487% on its first day, making Agility Robotics' SPAC-backed public launch appear undervalued, according to Forbes senior contributor Jo…
AI News Digest for Aug 19 covers 30 stories, including Galbot preparing a new humanoid for August robot showcases, Leopold Aschenbrenner losing $30 billion by betting too heavily, and State Farm lawyers admitting to usin…
Korea's tech funding nearly tripled year-on-year to $1.4 billion in the first half of 2026, but two mega-rounds in AI and semiconductors accounted for 38 percent of the total, according to data intelligence platform Trac…
Graphwise, a Bulgarian graph database startup, has secured a significant investment from European venture capital firm Oakley Capital, which acquired a majority stake in the company. The funds will be used to enhance Gra…
Unitree Robotics' founder and CEO Wang Xingxing's net worth surged nearly sevenfold to $16 billion after the company's blockbuster stock market debut, making him one of China's richest tech moguls. The surge reflects inv…