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AI pioneer Rich Sutton said on Sequoia's podcast that using synthetic data to train large language models is 'a big mistake,' arguing that manufactured data cannot capture the complexity of the real world. Sutton, a Turi…
Anthropic reported Q2 revenue of $11.6 billion, surpassing OpenAI for the first time. The company's growth has boosted market confidence, with prediction markets showing a 98.2% probability of Anthropic reaching a $1.25 …
Seoul Metropolitan Government signed a partnership with Imperial College London on Tuesday at the British Embassy Seoul to boost European research collaboration for Seoul's AI startups, extending its network beyond North…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $8 billion, a deal that buys distribution and inference demand rather than metering technology. The acquisition raises questions about OpenRouter's neutrality as a mu…
U.S. semiconductor startup Etched has raised $700 million at a valuation of $21 billion, more than double its previous valuation of $10.3 billion from a $300 million Series C round in July. Jane Street led the round, wit…
Leopold Aschenbrenner lost $30 billion by betting too heavily on AI infrastructure stocks, according to a report. His fund, Situational Awareness, borrowed $3 for every $1 of capital and was forced to liquidate positions…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree is set to surge more than 600% in its Shanghai trading debut on Wednesday, with shares opening at around 1,100 yuan ($163.14) versus its IPO price of 150.8 yuan. The listing on Shangh…
OpenAI told investors its revenue grew just 18% from the first to second quarter of 2026, reaching $6.7 billion in the quarter ending June, compared with $5.7 billion the prior quarter, according to an anonymously source…
Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise approximately $500 million at a pre-money valuation of at least $12 billion, according to Bloomberg, just six months after its $5 billion valuation from a $300 million Series D …
Unitree Robotics, officially Yushu Technology, will begin trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Aug 19 after raising 6.1 billion yuan (US$904 million) in an IPO, making it the first publicly traded humanoid robot mak…
Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, has raised $110 million in a Series A funding round led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Mayfield, and more tha…
AI is shifting value capture in Nordic SaaS, with the moat moving from software features to proprietary data and distribution, according to Industry Contents founding editor Yajush Gupta. The analysis argues that AI is n…
Rillet, an accounting automation startup, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from its $70 million Series B in August 2025. The company, founded by CEO Nicolas Kopp, …
OpenAI's second-quarter revenue rose 18% to $6.7 billion, a sharp slowdown compared with Anthropic, which more than doubled sales to about $11.6 billion and overtook the ChatGPT maker for the first time, according to fig…
An unnamed developer building an event-driven infrastructure layer for AI agents is seeking pricing advice for a potential first customer, a consulting firm that wants to license the platform for client solutions. The de…
Anthropic is assembling a revolving credit facility exceeding $10 billion ahead of its IPO, with lead banks committing approximately $1.25 billion each. The company's revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion by mid-2026, a…
OpenAI's second-quarter sales grew at a slower pace than rival Anthropic, according to The Wall Street Journal, signaling a cooling in the AI market's rapid expansion. The report highlights that OpenAI, led by Sam Altman…
OpenAI generated $6.7 billion in revenue in Q2 2026, up from $5.7 billion in Q1, according to the Wall Street Journal, with CFO Sarah Friar noting annualized recurring revenue exceeded that quarterly total by July 2026. …
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is creating a new class of super-voting shares for CEO Dario Amodei and its co-founders ahead of a potential IPO in September or October 2026, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Mo…
Soros Fund Management's Q2 2026 13F filing reveals a $497 million cluster of AI infrastructure investments across five under-followed names, led by a $96.9 million stake in Digital Realty Trust and a new $85.6 million po…