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ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax's H3, released on the same day two weeks ago, have propelled China to dominate the AI video race, with nine of the top 10 text-to-video systems on Artificial Analysis now made in Chin…
Magic Find Ventures, a venture capital fund co-founded by Fangda Wan and Shao Yun, has raised $30 million toward a $50 million target for its first fund, Magic Find Ventures I, to invest $500,000 to $2 million in pre-see…
Thrive Capital, led by Joshua Kushner, raised $2 billion for Thrive Holdings at a $12 billion valuation and agreed with Bob Iger to buy Mark Walter's 80% stake in the Los Angeles Lakers, marking the firm's expansion into…
SpaceX closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding assistant built by Anysphere, on August 14, 2026, integrating the team into its SpaceXAI division. The deal, which makes Cursor's four co-found…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar is conducting investor meetings as the company accelerates toward an IPO, following its confidential SEC filing in June 2026 and a record private funding round of $120B-$122B at a valuation of $852…
French startup Kog claims its software can deliver 30x faster LLM inference on standard datacenter GPUs, demoing 3,000 tokens per second on a 2-billion-parameter model using AMD MI300X and NVIDIA H200 chips. CEO Gaël Del…
OpenAI appointed Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer, less than a year after Denise Dresser took the role, amid ongoing C-suite turnover. The company projects an annual revenue run rate of $40 billion, according to Bloom…
HeartFlow (HTFL) stock broke out Friday after the San Francisco-based company reported a second-quarter beat and raised its full-year guidance by an 'outsized' amount. The AI-driven coronary artery disease diagnostic com…
Cursor, the AI code editor developed by Anysphere, has been officially acquired by SpaceXAI, according to a16z. The acquisition positions the combined team to dominate the AI coding market, which a16z estimates is only 1…
Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, alongside a 6,500-word manifesto from CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be 'for everyone,' but the hosts of TechCrunch…
SpaceXAI completed its acquisition of Cursor on August 14, following the release of Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 models. The deal, initially inked in April, makes Cursor a part of SpaceXAI, which also absorbed xAI in February.
OpenAI's failure to maintain its non-profit mission lock after the removal of Sam Altman has prompted a LessWrong user to propose a new commercial venture, Prealign, aimed at solving value generalisation and AI alignment…
Cursor has been officially acquired by SpaceX, completing a process that began in April when Cursor partnered with SpaceXAI to accelerate model training. The acquisition gives Cursor access to the largest fleet of GPUs i…
Agility Robotics Inc. announced on June 24 that it will go public through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, a SPAC, at a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation. The deal is expected to generate about $620 million in gro…
Anthropic, the AI safety startup, is in talks with investors to raise funding at a valuation of $60 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. Workday's stock surged 12% after the company reported better-tha…
Spear Invest founder and chief investment officer Ivana Delevska identifies Cloudflare and three AI sub-sectors as the most promising areas for tech investors, according to a Yahoo Finance interview. Delevska highlights …
Anthropic has begun preliminary investor meetings ahead of a possible initial public offering, with Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao leading discussions about Claude, management and enterprise growth, according to CNB…
OpenAI's annualized revenue is set to top $40 billion, according to Bloomberg, positioning the ChatGPT maker for a blockbuster IPO as early as this year. However, cost-conscious customers are increasingly turning to Chin…
Anthropic's $2 trillion IPO valuation is not justified by its financials, as the company reportedly has no net income and would need annual profits of $59 billion to $79 billion to match Nasdaq 100 valuation multiples, a…
Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber, ended his eight-year public silence at the launch event of his new company Atoms, where he discussed his belief that industrial AI will automate food production, mining, and manufactu…