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OpenAI's former head of AI ethics, Chloé Bakalar, left the company after less than a year, and no successor will be appointed, according to reports. Meanwhile, Google's chief AI researcher Jeff Dean, employee #30 and co-…
Investors in Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company founded by former OpenAI researchers Dario and Daniela Amodei, are targeting a $2 trillion valuation for its potential initial public offering, according to the …
Mindgard Ltd., an AI cybersecurity company spun out of Lancaster University, raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Album VC to scale its AI security platform amid rising demand. The company has publicly disclosed…
Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart AI for around $6 billion, a deal that would bring Decart's video-simulation and chip-efficiency technology into Anthropic's inference team. While the sourced story frames the acqui…
Anthropic is in advanced negotiations to acquire Decart AI for approximately $6 billion, its largest acquisition yet, as it prepares for an IPO after confidentially filing an S-1 with the SEC in early June. The price rep…
Vals AI has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build independent evaluation benchmarks for AI models, targeting the gap between standardized test performance and real-world economic valu…
Nvidia is playing multiple roles in the AI boom, from selling chips to investing in and financing AI companies, according to Rob Lalka, a business professor at Tulane University. Lalka said Nvidia has invested or committ…
CoreWeave, Nebius, and Supermicro reported strong quarterly results on Tuesday, sending their shares up as much as 27% on Wednesday and easing AI bubble fears. Nebius revenue surged 454% year-over-year to $582.3 million,…
Anthropic is reportedly aiming for a $2 trillion IPO by October, a valuation that would make it one of the largest public offerings in history and signal the market's bet on AI sovereignty. The company, known for its Cla…
AI legal tech firm Legora is in early talks to raise new funding at a $10bn valuation, nearly double the $5.6bn it raised in April, according to the Financial Times. The Stockholm-based startup, which counts Nvidia's ven…
Databricks closed a funding round at a $188 billion valuation, led by Coatue Management with roughly $3 billion invested, nearly tripling its valuation from $62 billion in late 2024. The company reports a revenue run rat…
Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, capitalizing on the agentic AI wave. The company, a data and AI platform provider, will use the funds to accelerate innovation and expand its mark…
Swedish AI legal-tech company Legora, whose clients include Deloitte and Heineken, is in early talks with investors for a funding round that could value it at at least $10 billion (96 billion Swedish kronor), according t…
Prestige venture firms are increasingly securing better prices than other investors in the same funding round through dual valuation deals, a practice that has become pervasive in the current AI-driven funding frenzy. St…
Anthropic investors expect the AI startup to float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, a figure that would eclipse SpaceX and make its debut the largest-ever initial public offering. Half a dozen backers to…
IBM and Together AI announced a multiyear, $240 million deal on August 11, 2026, to build a dedicated Nvidia Blackwell inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using roughly 2,000 Nvidia Blackwell 300 chips with Nvidia Spectrum-X…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Vals, a startup building an evaluation platform that tests AI models on real-world tasks rather than academic benchmarks, aiming to become an independent scorekeeper for AI mode…
Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, with CEO Ali Ghodsi claiming that AGI has already arrived, but the key to unlocking its potential lies in context that models currently lack.
Alloy Robotics, a Sydney-founded software maker using AI agents to debug robot fleets, has raised $8M in a funding round led by Square Peg, valuing the company at $80M. The round, announced Thursday, includes participati…
DeepLumen, a startup co-founded by Joy Wu, said on August 13 that its Agentic Page product is live across more than 1,000 merchants and has begun attributing orders from AI discovery, entering commercial rollout with a c…