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Uber exhausted its 2026 AI coding budget by April, prompting a $1,500 monthly cap per engineer on tools like Claude Code and Cursor, as token consumption from agentic workflows surged. The FinOps Foundation reports 98% o…
Luminance CEO Eleanor Lightbody said building proprietary AI models is more sustainable than relying on 'rented intelligence' from frontier models, as the legal tech firm raised $115m over 12 months. The company launched…
London has secured a major strategic win in legal AI, with 25% of top UK and US law firms basing their global senior AI hires in the city, compared to 10% in New York. The UK hosts 315 legaltech and AI businesses, repres…
Trata, a Y Combinator-backed AI startup founded in 2025, launched an AI-powered research desk for hedge funds that uses AI agents to conduct anonymous interviews with buy-side analysts and portfolio managers, transcribin…
A developer building Xedge, a tool for finding the right AI stack, discovered that the manual service of providing AI stack recommendations—which they had been doing for free—is a sellable skill. They are now offering 'A…
Hezo, a self-hosted platform for teams of AI agents, launches to let users manage autonomous agents without exposing secrets. The system encrypts keys with AES-256-GCM, sandboxes agents in Docker containers, and substitu…
Shares in major consulting firms like Accenture, IBM, and Capgemini have plummeted as investors fear AI will disrupt traditional business models. Accenture lost over 57% of its value in the past year, while Capgemini dro…
China launched three regional venture capital guidance funds, each exceeding 50 billion yuan ($7.1 billion), to back early-stage hard tech startups in semiconductors, AI, quantum computing, and other strategic sectors. T…
Qualcomm is acquiring Modular, the AI infrastructure startup founded by Chris Lattner and Tim Davis, for approximately $3.92 billion in stock. The deal, announced June 24, 2026, gives Qualcomm Modular's compiler, runtime…
Digital M&A in Q2 2026 shows a structural shift toward business durability, AI resilience, and clean profitability, with premium assets clearing at high multiples while young, paid-traffic-dependent businesses face steep…
DeepSeek V4's pricing is nearly 50x cheaper than Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier models, raising concerns that the US companies may rely on fearmongering and government bans on open-weight models to maintain high prices …
Freeport Markets, founded in 2025, launched an AI-powered trading platform that converts social and financial media into real-time market signals for crypto, perpetual futures, equities, and pre-IPO shares. The platform …
Vishal Sikka launched Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup that aims to disrupt the IT services industry by using agentic code generation to replace traditional labor-intensive outsourcing. The Palo Alto-based company secured…
Astromech, a startup founded in 2025 by Ben Lamm and George Church, develops a Large Life Model and autonomous biological intelligence system that fuses evolutionary logic with deep learning to decode regulatory patterns…
InfoEdge allocated nearly 50% of its startup investments to deeptech and artificial intelligence over the past 12 months, deploying Rs 455 crore into 30 deeptech companies and Rs 614 crore into 28 AI companies since 2020…
LinqAlpha won Best AI Solution at the 2026 Hedge Fund Services Awards, presented by With Intelligence, for its multi-agent platform used by over 70 financial institutions. The award, selected by an independent panel of s…
Micron Technology reported record fiscal Q3 2026 revenue of $41.46 billion, crushing analyst estimates by over $6 billion, driven by surging AI demand for memory chips. The company also announced a strategic supply agree…
Polar Analytics, an AI data platform for Shopify brands, raised $9M in Series A funding led by Point Nine Capital in June 2026. The company serves over 2,200 brands with unified analytics, incrementality testing, and AI …
RealTalk launches an autonomous growth agent that monitors products, competitors, and community signals across 10+ sources, pushing Slack or SMS alerts instead of requiring dashboard checks. The tool is free for a limite…
Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire RISC-V AI chip startup Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, a move that would give Qualcomm Jim Keller's Blackhole silicon and an open-source inference stack. The deal, confirmed by…