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A new non-profit organization, Raise Us, launched Thursday with over $500 million in funding from Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation to help US workers transition to an AI economy. Led by former gove…
Robotics startup FieldAI has reached $100 million in revenue and customer contracts, serving 30 clients across Europe, Asia, and the US. The company builds a universal software brain for robots operating in challenging e…
SpaceX has transformed into an AI landlord by leasing computing power from its Colossus data center to AI startups and tech giants, mirroring McDonald's real estate model. The company has signed deals with Reflection AI,…
Micron's blowout earnings reveal the rising cost of the AI boom, with the memory chipmaker trading at a low P/E ratio due to expected profit surges. The company's pricing power benefits suppliers but pressures buyers lik…
Phia, a fashion-meets-AI startup cofounded by Bill Gates's daughter Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is advertising its $35.5 million Series A funding round on a billboard at a New York City bodega. The ad features celebr…
AI search engine Exa raised $250 million in Series C funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, led by a16z, to power AI agents with high-quality web search. Exa already serves over 5,000 companies including Cursor, Cognition,…
OpenAI is reportedly considering delaying its IPO from 2026 to 2027 due to a tech selloff that has depressed AI stock valuations, with CEO Sam Altman insisting on a $1 trillion minimum valuation. The company's confidenti…
Three founders with backgrounds at Google, Palantir, and Harris Poll bootstrapped their AI-powered polling company Outward Intelligence to over $1 million in revenue within eight months of commercialization, bypassing ve…
Israeli startup Firewave has developed an AI-driven wildfire detection system using distributed sound sensors that can detect small fires within minutes, offering a complementary early-warning channel to optical systems.…
Two prominent Chinese hedge fund managers, Yang Dong of Wealspring Asset Management and Chen Guangming of Foresight Fund, have stopped accepting new subscriptions, warning that AI stock valuations have inflated into a su…
Two prominent Chinese hedge funds, Wealspring Asset and Shanghai Banxia Investment Management Center, warned that the global AI stock boom is an unsustainable 'super bubble' poised to burst. Wealspring cited overhyped va…
RBC Capital Markets' latest CIO survey reveals that enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, with 100% of respondents allocating budget to AI projects and more than half already in production. OpenAI dominates with 57% us…
AI now writes nearly all code at startups like Alma, Chainguard, and Wordsmith AI, with Anthropic's Claude Code as the dominant tool. Founders report massive speed gains but also warn of a 'cleanup tax' from bugs and slo…
China's unicorn count rose to 381 in the 2026 Hurun Global Unicorn Index, up 38 from last year, with ByteDance ranking third globally behind OpenAI and Anthropic. The US leads with 806 unicorns, while China now produces …
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, pays some technical staff over $1 million in base salary, according to H-1B visa filings. The company, which could go public this fall with a potential $1 trillion IPO, is competi…
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo launched Raise Us, a $500 million nonprofit initiative to help American workers adapt to AI-driven job displacement, with bipartisan support and partners including Bank of …
Chinese AI leaders are prioritizing lower-cost, 'good enough' models over frontier capabilities to capture global market share, according to The Washington Post. The strategy leverages efficiency techniques like quantiza…
Chinese AI and chip companies are flooding domestic markets with IPOs as US restrictions block access to New York listings. Moore Threads Technology surged 425% on its Shanghai debut, MetaX Integrated Circuits rose 693%,…
Airwallex raised $320 million in a Series H round at an $11 billion valuation, up from $8 billion in December 2025, as the global payments company bets on agentic finance. The round was led by Addition with support from …
Chinese AI and chip companies Moore Threads, MetaX, and Biren Technology have raised billions in IPOs on the Shanghai STAR Market and Hong Kong Exchange, with first-day gains exceeding 400% and oversubscription rates abo…