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Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs raised $4 million in pre-seed funding to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates and create short-form video profiles. The platform aims to help employer…
SpaceX stock (Nasdaq: SPCX) fell below its IPO opening price of $150 in premarket trading Tuesday, wiping out gains for retail investors who bought on the first day. The stock dropped 16% on Monday and is now trading aro…
Micron has made a strategic investment in Anthropic's Series H funding round and secured a supply deal to provide HBM, DRAM, and SSDs to the AI company. The partnership includes joint analysis of AI memory and storage in…
Spain has built a diverse quantum infrastructure without explicitly branding it as a quantum ecosystem, now operating one of Europe's most varied quantum systems including the world's first multimodal quantum system at t…
Cadence, a startup using AI to manage chronic disease, raised $100 million in a Series E round led by Spark Capital, valuing the company at $1.2 billion. The company claims its platform saves Medicare $2.7 million per we…
SpaceX went public in a record $75 billion IPO, becoming one of the world's 10 most valuable companies, as AI firms like Anthropic and OpenAI also prepare to go public. These companies need massive capital to cover the e…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has abandoned traditional media playbooks to embrace a new influence-driven, social-media-first strategy, positioning itself as a dominant narrative owner in the age of platforms like X (former…
France has ordered 5,000 drones from Harmattan AI, a Dassault-backed startup, marking a major test of whether startup speed can scale to military procurement. The order follows Dassault's participation in Harmattan AI's …
A credible Labour source reveals that Wes Streeting was promised the Chancellorship for not running, capital gains taxes will be raised to match income tax, and the economic focus will be on devolution and state ownershi…
AMI Labs, co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun and CEO Alexandre LeBrun, emerged from stealth in early 2026 with a $1.03 billion seed round to build world models for embodied AI. The Paris-based startup targets r…
Patientdesk.ai, a Y Combinator-backed startup, launched an AI-powered voice agent for dental practices that handles inbound calls, insurance verification, appointment booking, and claims processing. The company raised $3…
SpaceX has become a $28 billion per year neocloud business through GPU rental deals with AI companies including Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI, according to analyst Jamin Ball. The company's annualized revenue now …
ValkaAI, a Prague-based startup founded in 2026, has raised €12 million in pre-seed funding led by Rockaway Ventures to develop real-time interactive synthetic video technology and lifelike AI personas for entertainment,…
AethexAI, a full-stack voice AI infrastructure startup founded in 2025, emerged from stealth in June 2026 with $3 million in pre-seed funding led by 4DX Ventures. The company builds speech models and agent platforms opti…
Moderne co-founders Jonathan Schneider and Olga Kundzich will present their AI code-migration platform at the Open Source in Finance Forum London on June 25, 2026, pitching a deterministic approach to enterprise code mod…
Oracle disclosed a 21,000-employee workforce reduction over 12 months, citing AI adoption as a factor. Tech layoffs hit a record high in May 2026, with AI being the most-cited reason, as companies like GitLab, Google, In…
Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single API, claiming its premium tier Fugu-Ultra matches frontier models like Fable and Mythos on benchmarks. The system uses a trained languag…
Cursor (Anysphere) announced its first self-trained frontier model, Cursor foundation model, will ship within weeks. The model is not yet released, with community guesses averaging July 14, 2026. No benchmark scores or v…
Two top Google AI researchers, Noam Shazeer and John Jumper, left for OpenAI and Anthropic respectively within days, triggering a 5-6% drop in Alphabet shares amid concerns about talent retention and competitive pressure…
Independent evaluation startups fail because talent is better compensated in post-training and application development, the customer base is too narrow, and model optimization pressure renders evals obsolete. The market …