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Standard Nuclear Inc. filed for an IPO targeting a valuation of up to $3.55 billion, seeking to raise $383.25 million amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers. The Tennessee-based nuclear fuel maker, founded …
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI is seeking to raise approximately $4 billion through a secondary share sale in Hong Kong, following a stock surge of nearly 1,500% since its January IPO. The Tsinghua University spinoff, backe…
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood sold $54.2 million in Alibaba stock on June 26, part of a two-day reduction exceeding $71 million, and used the proceeds to buy $9.7 million in Coinbase and $4.5 million in Palantir shares, sig…
Guggenheim Securities analyst John DiFucci upgraded Salesforce and ServiceNow, citing factors beyond AI leadership, amid concerns over an AI-driven SaaSpocalypse.
Tangos AI raised $20 million in seed funding on July 7, 2026, to expand its autonomous AI agents for financial crime, sanctions, fraud, and compliance investigations. The platform analyzes evidence, maps relationships, t…
General Atlantic led a $1 billion funding round for AI chip maker SambaNova, valuing the company at $11 billion. The investment signals growing investor interest in AI infrastructure beyond model training.
Clay, the company that created the 'GTM engineer' role and built the go-to-market IDE, grew from $1M to $100M ARR in two years by betting on workflow intelligence over proprietary data. Its $5B valuation hinges on becomi…
A CTO evaluated four Chinese LLM families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—for production use at scale, finding that DeepSeek V4 Flash offers the best overall value at $0.25/M tokens, while Kimi K2.5 excels in reasoning tas…
SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly built AI model as soon as Wednesday, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. The model, developed using xAI's Colossus supercomputer, marks…
Since AI, a nonprofit AI accelerator, launched a global ecosystem connecting 10,000+ AI builders with partners including Google, ElevenLabs, and Antler. Its flagship Hackathon 2026 in Turku, Finland, offers a €50,000 pri…
Avery Pennarun, CEO of Tailscale, argues that Canadian tech companies should not relocate to the U.S. amid trade tensions, citing Canada's global trust advantage. He contrasts PointClickCare's contingency plan to move wi…
VC Cafe's July 8, 2026 analysis argues that the next AI market layer will be a task economy built around expert judgment, workflow completion, and data labeling, with platforms like Mercor, Scale AI, and Deel turning hum…
SambaNova, an AI chip startup, raised fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation, up from roughly $2 billion earlier this year, as investors race to back alternatives to Nvidia. The company builds chips and systems for ru…
A project manager at an IT company describes how using LLMs like Claude Code to build services with a single manager instead of a full dev team shifts project management from Agile toward Waterfall. The manager now write…
OpenAI announced the wider rollout of its GPT-5.6 family of AI models on Thursday, following a request from the Trump administration to stagger the release. Hours later, Elon Musk revealed that SpaceXAI would launch its …
UK Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall backed British driverless car companies, warning that failure to support them would leave the UK reliant on US firms. Her stance contrasts with Andy Burnham's team, which h…
Microsoft announced plans to replace OpenAI and Anthropic models with its in-house MAI models in Microsoft 365 Copilot, aiming to reduce costs and increase self-reliance. The shift, reported by Bloomberg, follows a 2025 …
New millionaires minted from AI and SpaceX stock gains are reshaping luxury spending, buying meteorites, fire trucks, and sports teams instead of traditional luxury goods. The personal luxury market has contracted over t…
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines told the RAISE CxO Summit in Paris that enterprises stall AI agents in pilots because they lack proper knowledge mapping and human oversight, proposing a new 'cartographer' role to document workfl…
Vendelux, a live events information platform, raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Tribeca Venture Partners to help B2B marketers determine which events to attend and track ROI. The startup uses AI and data from…