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SambaNova Systems, an AI chip startup, plans to raise $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, a fivefold increase from its valuation four months ago. The surge reflects renewed investor interest in specialized inference h…
Enterprise customers are cutting AI spending from OpenAI and Anthropic due to high costs and unclear benefits, with major firms like Microsoft, Uber, Amazon, JPMorgan, and Meta reducing usage. The AI industry's run-rate …
Micron Technology reported fiscal Q3 2026 revenue of $41.46 billion and adjusted EPS of $25.11, crushing Wall Street estimates by 16% and 22% respectively, driven by insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory used in Nv…
Notion launched Claude-powered AI agents that can analyze data, write code, and assign tasks, with over 1 million user-built agents in three months. The company also introduced a Developer Platform and External Agents AP…
Superhuman, the platform formed when Grammarly acquired the Superhuman email client, announced on June 23, 2026 that it agreed to acquire GPTZero, an AI-detection startup with over 19 million users and $30 million in ann…
Mirendil, an AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in advanced discussions for a $175 million funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins at a $1 billion valuation. The company aims t…
Serafis, a San Francisco-based AI startup founded in 2025, provides narrative intelligence by indexing and structuring conversations from podcasts and independent media into searchable data for investors and AI agents. B…
Qualcomm acquired Modular to challenge NVIDIA's AI dominance, unveiling a five-year plan to expand into data centers with Dragonfly AI accelerators and CPUs. The acquisition provides an alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA frame…
Zarna AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2025, builds semi-autonomous AI agents that automate sourcing, diligence, and portfolio workflows for private equity firms. The agents capture data from CIMs, emails, an…
A Remote employee built a crisis-response tool in three hours using Claude Code, replacing a $60,000 annual vendor. The shift, driven by AI tools, is enabling non-engineers across HR, finance, and other teams to build th…
Qualcomm announced Meta as the first named customer for its Dragonfly C1000 data centre chip, set for 2028, and confirmed a $3.9 billion acquisition of AI software startup Modular. The moves signal Qualcomm's push into A…
Qualcomm announced a major push into data center infrastructure at its 2026 Investor Day, unveiling a new Dragonfly C1000 CPU with 250+ cores and a High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) architecture that stacks memory on compute …
Levocred, an AI-native operating system for structured credit workflows, emerged from Y Combinator S26 with a platform that automates borrowing base reporting, covenant monitoring, and credit analysis. The San Francisco-…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led Mirendil's seed round to build a lab-grade research platform that enables engineers and domain experts to conduct frontier AI work. Mirendil aims to democratize AI development by providing …
Investment firm Reservoir Co. acquired agriculture finance and data platform Contain Inc., its first corporate acquisition, and appointed Contain founder Nicola Kerslake as a general partner. Kerslake will chair Reservoi…
Betsy Cohen, the veteran dealmaker known as the 'SPAC Queen,' is promoting SPACs as a natural path for AI data center companies to go public, citing the need for public capital to fund massive infrastructure buildouts. C…
Superhuman, the company behind Grammarly and Superhuman Mail, has acquired AI detection startup GPTZero, which has over 19 million users and $30 million in annual recurring revenue. GPTZero will integrate its AI authenti…
Hyperscale Data signed a $1.2 billion deal to deliver AI compute capacity from its Michigan data center, shifting focus from Bitcoin mining. The company will retrofit 60,000 square feet of the facility to provide 20 mega…
Nudge launched an agentic commerce platform and raised $1.1 million in seed funding to enhance AI shopping tools for brands in apparel, beauty, and other retail categories.
Two Google AI researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving to join Anthropic, following Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer. The departures, which wiped $270 billion from Alphabet's …