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Wispr Flow raised $280 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures, valuing the AI voice-to-text startup at $2 billion, with total funding reaching $361 million. The company said users have generated over 6…
Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building AI decision-making tools for the military, is raising a $61 million Series B funding round to speed production of its flagship product Omega and develop wearable …
Venice AI, the privacy-focused generative AI platform founded by Erik Voorhees, has reached $100 million in annualized revenue run-rate, up from over $70 million about a month earlier. The company, which raised a $65 mil…
Street artists in San Francisco are transforming billboards and Muni bus stop ads for AI startups into canvases for positive public messages, such as a 'Free Muni!' poster that replaced a Delve AI ad and a 'Humanity prev…
Canva has cut its internal valuation by more than $10 billion to $43.9 billion, a 20% reduction, amid fears that AI will cannibalize its design software business. Australian backer Blackbird Ventures has also marked the …
Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of AI firm OpenRouter is unlikely to derail a potential takeover of PayPal Holdings (PYPL), according to analysts. PayPal stock dipped Monday as analysts assessed how OpenRouter, founded i…
Nvidia is reportedly investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, an AI data-center and energy developer backed by SoftBank and OpenAI, to support gigawatt-scale power generation in Ohio, according to Reuters. Nvidia stock trade…
Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, in a deal that positions the payments company as a tollbooth for AI traffic. The acquisition, announced Monday, gives Stripe control over the infrastructure t…
Anthropic, the maker of the AI model Claude, is reportedly planning a $2 trillion initial public offering (IPO), contingent on projected revenues of $190 billion to $200 billion by 2028, up from a current run rate of nea…
Groq raised $350 million in a Series A round led by Disruptive with planned participation from Nvidia, valuing the company at $3.5 billion, down from its $6.9 billion valuation last September. The startup is pivoting fro…
James Dacombe, a 25-year-old high school dropout from Harrogate, has become Europe's youngest self-made billionaire after his AI chip startup Olix tripled in value since February, reaching a $3.3 billion valuation follow…
Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude model, reported AI revenue growth of nearly 1,500%, with Q2 2026 revenue exceeding $11.5 billion, more than 14 times the same quarter last year. The company projects $26 billion i…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model routing startup, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal, which comes three months after OpenRouter raised $113 million in a Series B at a $1.3 bil…
Crypto derivatives markets are pricing Anthropic at roughly $1.8 trillion, an 88% premium over the $965 billion post-money valuation from its Series H round in May 2026, according to perpetual futures contracts on platfo…
Higgsfield Inc. raised $400 million in Series B funding led by DST Global, quadrupling its valuation to $5.4 billion. The generative AI video and image platform, which serves over 30 million users globally, will use the …
James Dacombe, the 25-year-old founder of AI chip-making firm Olix and brain monitoring startup CoMind, has become Europe's youngest self-made billionaire with a net worth exceeding $1 billion after Olix raised $312 mill…
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot in early beta on August 11, offering enterprises $120-per-seat AI coworkers that operate on cloud computers and learn workflows by demonstration, three days after closing its $60 billion acquis…
Groq announced a $350 million Series A on August 17 at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Disruptive with planned participation from Nvidia, to expand its AI compute infrastructure. The company expects to grow operating ca…
Boeing's stock fell 1.8% after the U.S. Army grounded its Apache helicopters following a crash near Fort Hood, Texas, that killed two crew members on Friday. Meanwhile, Anthropic, which plans an IPO this fall, preliminar…
Wispr AI Inc. raised $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from existing and new investors, bringing total funding to $361 million. The company also previewe…