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Crusoe, a privately held AI data center developer and power provider with contracts from OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft, and GE Vernova, is in IPO talks with Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan, accor…
Canada's updated Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program, enacted through Bill C-15 in March, restores capital expenditure eligibility for qualifying property acquired on or after Dec. 16, 2024, …
Anthropic, the AI lab behind the Claude chatbot, is seeking loans of approximately $1 billion to $1.25 billion each from major lenders, following a recent debt deal arranged by Apollo Global Management and Blackstone. Th…
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind the Claude AI model, is seeking about $1.25 billion from each of its lead banks as part of a pre-IPO credit facility nearing $10 billion. The company, valued at $965 b…
Quantexa, a London-based AI and data analytics company, is exploring an initial public offering that could value it above $3 billion, with listings in London or New York under consideration for the second half of 2026. T…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is set to exceed its $10 billion target for a pre-IPO credit facility, according to prediction markets. The increase reflects strong investor confidence as the company, valued nea…
Hypercubic Inc., an AI startup, raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by CIV with participation from Y Combinator, Afore Capital, Pioneer Fund, Multimodal Investors, and angels including Opendoor CEO Kaz, to use AI age…
Etched, an AI inference systems startup founded by Gavin Uberti, Robert Wachen, and Chris Zhu, raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation in a round led by Jane Street, which tested Etched's hardware and received its…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP, a hedge fund he grew from $225 million to about $45 billion, lost most of its value in about four weeks in July 2026 after a 439% net return in the first half of the year…
Velaura AI, a startup focused on chip design for data centers, has crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold after closing a $110 million Series A round led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Capricorn Invest…
Anthropic, the AI company, is closing in on SpaceX for the largest IPO of 2026, with a potential Q4 debut, fueled by surging revenue growth.
Harvey, the $11 billion legal-software company, introduced Harvey Tenet, its first in-house proprietary model for legal work, on Tuesday. The model, trained on a version of Moonshot's open-source Kimi K3, aims to reduce …
AI inference chip startup Etched's valuation has doubled to about $21 billion just one month after its $300 million Series C round led by Sequoia, which valued the firm at $10.3 billion, according to a Wall Street Journa…
Velaura AI, an artificial intelligence startup, raised $110 million in a Series A funding round, achieving a $1 billion valuation. The company, which focuses on AI-driven solutions, will use the funds to expand its produ…
Perplexity's India revenue rose roughly 60% among new users after its free promotional deal with Bharti Airtel expired on January 16, 2026, even as app downloads declined. The partnership, announced July 17, 2025, gave a…
Perplexity's free 12-month Pro subscription giveaway to Airtel's 360 million customers in India drove 56 million app downloads over seven months, but downloads fell more than 90% after the offer closed in January, accord…
Ben Affleck attended a high-level AI conference hosted by AFI and Google, 'AI Summit Creators at the Center,' alongside 'Star Wars' producer Kathleen Kennedy and executives from Meta, Google, Paramount, A24, and Lucasfil…
Groq raised $650 million in a round led by Disruptive and Infinitum to scale its AI inference cloud, following a December 2025 deal in which Nvidia licensed Groq's technology for about $20 billion and hired founder Jonat…
Alloomi, an AI startup, announced a full-stack approach to create AI agents that learn from real-world experiences, combining application and model layers to capture professional data and build it back into the model thr…
Incredible, a Swedish company building a voice-first desktop assistant for Mac and Windows, has raised $2 million (19 million SEK) in previously undisclosed funding since March 2024, bringing its total pre-seed round to …