AI Startups

Rilla CEO Sebastian Jimenez pays each employee $18,000 a year to live within a 10-minute bike ride of the company's Williamsburg office, aiming to reduce friction and maximize flow state. The AI startup, which builds spe…

Starts.live launches a platform that reverses the typical startup build order by selling ideas first through real ads and outreach, then building products based on customer feedback. The service claims to deliver live si…

Quantum Systems raised $1.2 billion in Series D funding, doubling its valuation to $8 billion, to expand manufacturing and invest in AI-driven autonomous defense systems. The round, co-led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, …

A developer reflects on the history of the United States, tracing its journey from the asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs to modern AI breakthroughs. The piece highlights key innovations such as the Erie Canal, rai…

French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are personally courting tech CEOs to secure AI infrastructure investments, resulting in tens of billions of dollars in commitments. Macron's relati…

Startups like Starcloud are racing to build AI data centers in orbit, with Starcloud launching a satellite carrying an Nvidia H100 GPU that trained a language model in space. The company raised $170 million at a $1.1 bil…

FinMav launched a stock screening tool that lets users search for stocks using plain English queries, translating them into financial filters while showing all parameters applied and flagging potential issues. The AI-pow…

Securitize, a tokenization infrastructure firm, went public via a SPAC merger and now trades on the NYSE under SECZ, with BlackRock as its key partner for the BUIDL fund. The company sits at the center of a tokenized ass…

AI-related hiring in India's IT sector rose 16% year-on-year in June 2026 while overall IT job postings fell 3%, according to Naukri's JobSpeak report. Across 14 industries, AI and machine-learning roles grew 25%, with i…

Micron Technology broke ground on a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.6 billion) expansion of its Hiroshima, Japan factory to produce high-bandwidth memory chips for AI applications, with construction starting in May 2026 and shipments …

SK Hynix plans to list American depositary receipts on the Nasdaq under ticker SKHY around July 10, aiming to raise up to $29.65 billion in the largest ADR offering in over two decades. The listing comes as the company's…

Raja Koduri's startup OXMIQ raised $35 million in Series A funding on July 1 to license its OxCore GPU architecture, aiming to let developers run CUDA code on non-NVIDIA hardware without changes. The round was co-led by …

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index fell 6.3% on July 1, 2026, its steepest single-day drop, as AI-memory stocks Micron and Sandisk each dropped about 10% and equipment makers KLA, Lam Research, and Appli…

Sportsbooks are recruiting risk-tolerant, data-driven young Americans as bettors, competing with startups for the same talent pool. The Supreme Court's 2018 decision legalized sports betting, and the industry generated $…

Savannah Group, a boutique executive recruitment consultancy serving FTSE firms, has gone into insolvency after investing heavily in its AI platform MapX. The company's revenue fell 20% to £12.4m in 2024, while debt cost…

Onepilot and Kittylitter both enable coding agents from a phone, but Onepilot focuses on deploying and managing a fleet of persistent agents on servers, while Kittylitter is a free, open-source client for running a singl…

Two former Harvard students, dissatisfied with expert claims that a dedicated inference chip is physically impossible, founded Etched and raised $800 million to build an ASIC for transformer model inference. The story hi…

Inference startup Wafer claims it achieved 80% of Nvidia B200 performance on AMD MI355X GPUs running GLM-5.2, with 2.6x cheaper hardware, by optimizing the software stack. The benchmark, published by Wafer, shows 2626 to…

Co.Labs, a Saskatchewan startup incubator, reports that all 30 of its resident startups now use AI, with realtor-focused app Rivra built from idea to beta in nine months using tools like ChatGPT. Co-founder Caroline Gilm…

HCLTech won a $1.14 billion AI-driven IT contract from Mercedes-Benz, replacing Infosys as the incumbent vendor. The deal, running from July 2026 to December 2031, shifts from headcount-based outsourcing to an AI-automat…