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Weave Robotics, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by former Apple engineers, unveiled Isaac 1, an $8,000 home robot that folds laundry and tidies up. The wheeled robot, priced significantly lower than humanoid rivals…
Monumint, founded by Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis, has launched conversational AI agents for banks and lenders after pivoting from seed-backed OmniAI. The company now has 20 paying customers for its loan-application and …
Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis raised $3.2 million for their AI startup OmniAI, then scrapped it to build Monumint, a banking AI agent startup. The founders, who met as commercial bankers at CIBC, pivoted after deciding Om…
Anthropic shares were quoted at an implied $1.2 trillion valuation on secondary markets including Caplight and Rainmaker Securities, according to a July 9, 2026 Business Insider report. Caplight CEO Javier Avalos said th…
Anthropic has reached a $1.2 trillion valuation on secondary markets, making it the most sought-after private company in venture secondary history, according to Caplight CEO Javier Avalos. Shares are extremely scarce as …
NVIDIA and Microsoft are jointly developing the DGX Station for Windows, a system designed to run hundreds of AI agents securely within enterprise Windows environments, targeting Japan's industrial sectors that rely on l…
Databricks tested Zhipu AI's open-weight model GLM-5.2 in July 2026 and found it matches Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding quality while costing 34% less per task. The model scored 62.1% on SWE-bench Pro and 81.0% on …
Cerebras Systems announced plans to deploy 200 megawatts of AI compute capacity across Europe by 2027, with initial capacity online by late 2026. The build-out, spanning France, Norway, and Finland, will partly serve Ope…
Elon Musk has built Tesla into a company worth around $1.5 trillion, exceeding the combined value of the next 10 most valuable carmakers, despite selling far fewer vehicles. Investors treat Tesla as an AI and robotics fi…
Recruitment firms like Randstad are pivoting to specialized AI roles as generative AI automates routine hiring tasks, with demand for AI solutions leads up 226% and process automation specialists up 196%. The industry be…
Alchemab Therapeutics secured a £25 million investment from the British Business Bank, the largest life sciences bet by the state-owned lender. The funding will expand the company's AI-driven antibody database and advanc…
Whering, a UK digital wardrobe platform, raised $7 million in seed funding co-led by eBay Ventures and Google AI Futures Fund. The company plans to use the capital to develop AI-assisted styling and resale features, leve…
Francisco Javier Roldán Velásquez, founder and CEO of Ethos Engine, is seeking pre-seed funding and Silicon Valley connections to scale his deterministic AI safety infrastructure. The system uses proprietary mathematical…
Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek and Zhipu AI, are developing custom chips to reduce long-term operating costs and improve hardware-software synergy, but the strategy carries significant risk due to heavy upfront inve…
OpenAI acquired the daily tech podcast TBPN for a rumored $200-300 million just 17 months after its launch, despite having only 70,000 viewers per episode. The founders, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, built the show by char…
Prime Intellect raised $130 million in Series A funding led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, and Dell Technologies Capital, to build an open superintelligence stack for trainin…
Display.dev, a Tallinn-based agent document platform founded by Ott Ilves and Carl Rannaberg, raised EUR 470,000 in pre-seed funding from Outlast Fund, FIRSTPICK, Curiosity VC, and angel investor Henrik Bohman. The start…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported fiscal Q2 2026 revenue of $10.68 billion, a 40% year-over-year increase, driven by AI infrastructure demand. The company's AI server backlog reached nearly $6 billion, and its stock su…
Grace Investment Machine (GIM) raised a $20 million Series A on July 9, 2026, co-led by Hony Capital and an unnamed U.S. venture firm, to build agentic capital-markets AI systems. The company claims to combine finance-tu…
Crypto venture capital firm Paradigm closed a $1.2 billion fourth fund to invest in artificial intelligence and robotics, signaling a strategic shift beyond its traditional focus on cryptocurrency and blockchain startups…