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8090 Labs, an AI software factory startup founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, raised $135 million in Series A funding led by Salesforce Ventures to automate software delivery for regulated enterprises. The company plans to …
X Square Robot closed a Series C financing round on June 29, 2026, pushing its valuation above $2.8 billion. The startup has received backing from major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance, Meituan, and Xiaom…
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more have reached their highest level since 2021, with 13 such liquidity events in Q2 2026, driven partly by SpaceX's IPO. Meanwhile, AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI are shifting f…
Stathera Inc. closed a $55 million Series B financing round led by Maverick Silicon to scale production of its MEMS-based silicon timing components for AI data centers. The oversubscribed round brings total funding to $7…
Morgan Stanley forecasts US investment-grade corporate debt issuance will reach $2.2 trillion to $2.46 trillion in 2026, driven by massive AI infrastructure spending from tech giants. The bank estimates global AI-related…
ServiceTrade acquired Mura, an agentic AI platform for field-service billing and collections, to expand its Stella suite with Stella Invoice and Stella Collect. The acquisition aims to accelerate cash flow for contractor…
Salesforce's integration of Anthropic's Claude Tag AI agent into Slack has sparked internal concerns among employees who fear the feature could cannibalize Salesforce's own AI products like Agentforce and Slackbot. Despi…
Pie, an AI growth platform for small businesses, raised $23.7 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to help small businesses maintain visibility in AI-driven search results.
Anthropic paused its planned June 15 billing change for Claude Agent SDK and headless workflows after developer backlash and ahead of its IPO. The change would have moved agent usage off subscriptions onto separate credi…
Vertical AI startups like Harvey ($11B) and Abridge have proven that wrapping a foundation model with proprietary data and domain workflow logic creates billion-dollar companies. Agriculture is the next frontier, with a …
Toronto-based AI startup Spellbook launched its Autonomous Contract Management (ACM) product on Tuesday, aiming to automate contract drafting, signing, and renewals for legal teams. The company, valued at $350 million US…
MDOTM Ltd., a provider of AI-driven investment solutions, raised $27 million in a growth equity round led by Expedition Growth Capital. The company serves over 60 financial institutions and will use the funds to expand i…
Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., warned of the Trump administration's 'fetishization' of Silicon Valley startups and announced plans to scrutinize contracting practices, revive federal IT oversight, and push for AI policy i…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot Robot Park in Austin where its Apollo humanoid robots practice warehouse tasks, with most sessions still guided by human operators. The facility, described as a data factory, generat…
Robert Scoble is turning his curated lists of 13,000 AI founders into a paid intelligence product called Scobleizer, powered by Aligned News. The product uses Scoble's hand-curated X lists and AI to provide structured in…
OKX launched OKX AI, a marketplace where autonomous AI agents can find work, complete tasks, and pay each other in stablecoins. The platform, backed by the Opentensor Foundation, CertiK, and GenLayer, went live on June 3…
Call-centre stocks slid after Concentrix lowered its 2026 revenue guidance and reported a drop in operating income, with shares falling 21% and Teleperformance dropping 13% on no company-specific news, reinforcing invest…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, confidentially filed a draft Form S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026, setting the stage for a potential public offering in late 2026. The company's valuation approaches $1 trillion …
London-based robotics startup morph embeds sensing and adaptive control directly into reconfigurable deformable materials, creating soft robotic cells that can change shape and stiffness in real time. The company aims to…
Nvidia stock has underperformed the S&P 500 for six straight trading days, the longest stretch since September 2025, driven by institutional rotation out of AI hardware stocks and concerns over Big Tech's rising AI capit…