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AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to buy Google's Chrome browser, a bid larger than Perplexity's own valuation, following a US antitrust ruling that found Google holds an illegal monopoly …
Anthropic reported more than $11.5 billion in Q2 2026 revenue on August 15, a 14-fold year-over-year increase from $787 million in Q2 2025, and confirmed its first quarter of positive adjusted operating income. The compa…
SaaSLyra, a new AI-powered SaaS discovery platform, launched on Hacker News to help founders get their products found by both people and AI through structured listings, submission workflows, and visibility insights. The …
Asia's AI chip startups face significant barriers to competing with Nvidia, primarily due to limited access to advanced foundries like TSMC and Samsung Foundry, according to industry experts and investors. South Korea's …
Sellara, a New York startup founded by former Citi employees, has launched AI agents that automate post-trade workflows for investment banks, and claims to be live with one of the largest U.S. banks. The company reports …
Cognition is in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of at least $40 billion, a 54% jump from its $26 billion valuation three months ago, with revenue approaching $1 billion annualized. The company's Devin a…
Financial Times reported on August 13, 2026, that Anthropic investors are targeting a valuation above $2 trillion for a potential October 2026 listing, a figure that has not been formally fixed within the company. The re…
Windsurf has been rebranded as Devin Desktop following Cognition's acquisition, and Cursor became a SpaceX subsidiary on August 14, making the editor comparison obsolete. Claude Code, with annualized revenue of $2.5 bill…
OpenAI is experiencing a significant brain drain as key researchers and technical leads depart ahead of a potential IPO, risking the company's competitive edge and product stability. The exodus, which includes architects…
A developer argues that the visual and strategic uniformity of AI startups stems from their reliance on the same foundation models and venture capital incentives, making the entire cohort fragile to shared shocks. The po…
Globant's stock plunged 17% after the company cut its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to $2.428 billion to $2.462 billion, down from $2.462 billion to $2.508 billion, and lowered its non-IFRS adjusted diluted EPS forecast…
Craft Ventures, the venture firm co-founded by David Sacks, is targeting roughly $1 billion for its fifth fund, according to an SEC filing dated August 7, 2026. If successful, Craft Ventures V would push the firm's total…
Tech CEOs are publishing AI manifestos primarily to signal market dominance, recruit top talent, and shape regulation, rather than to outline concrete product roadmaps, according to an analysis of the trend. The document…
A New York Post report says the AI boom has created a record number of billionaires, with Forbes' 2026 list adding 45 new fortunes tied directly to AI ventures, fueling luxury spending on watches, homes, and wellness ser…
More than 80 AI billionaires worth a collective $2.9 trillion appear on Forbes' annual ranking, with 45 joining in the past year, as San Francisco-based Anthropic plots an IPO at a valuation of $1 trillion or more. The n…
AgentRouter, a non-profit unified LLM API gateway, is offering developers $200 in free credits upon signup via referral links, with no credit card required. The platform provides a single API endpoint to access premium m…
Sarah Guo's venture firm Conviction has raised close to $1 billion across three funds to bet that the largest AI labs will not capture all the value, even as Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Waymo absorbed roughly 65 cents of…
SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, a deal first announced in April with an option to buy for $60 billion. Cursor will gain access to SpaceX's GPU fleet, which the company describes …
SpaceX has acquired Cursor, a coding AI startup, according to a headline. The acquisition's financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal's impact on Cursor's operations remains unclear.
Nvidia cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned Ohio data center from $250 billion to under $120 billion after investor pushback on risk, while Anthropic's quarterly revenue jumped from $4.7 billion to $11.5 billion, compl…