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Manifund launched a demo impact market at impact-exchange.org that retroactively values early donations to AI safety organizations, showing a 2022 $343,000 Long-Term Future Fund donation to MATS now worth over $4 million…
Lovable Labs Inc., a Swedish AI coding startup, raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling its December valuation of $6.6 billion. The company, founded by CEO Anton Osika and Fabian He…
The New York Post reports that startups are racing to meet surging US power demand from the tech boom with innovations like rat-brain-powered AI efficiency, wave-powered data centers, and microreactors. Biological Comput…
Tacto, a Munich-based procurement software startup, is hiring its first Forward Deployed Engineers to build data pipelines, agents, and custom logic on its platform inside customer environments, targeting industrial comp…
Demis Hassabis stepped down as head of DeepMind, and Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le—three of the four leads of Gemini—left Google to found a startup focused on recursive self-improvement (RSI), ac…
Lifto, a video-first product launch platform, reports that its domain rating (DR) improved from 3 to 30 within a week after rebuilding its SEO strategy. The platform offers a swipeable feed of demo reels for new products…
Lovable raised $400 million in a Series C round at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund as co-lead, according to the Stockholm-based AI software startup's Aug. 12 announcement. …
ToolDirectory.AI's analysis of 2,718 AI tools found that 258 (9.5%) have shut down or been acquired, with 125 shutting down outright and 133 acquired. 2025 was the deadliest year on record with 101 retirements, and the D…
Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, just three months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. The compa…
Preview, an AI-native video creation and production platform, has raised $12 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital. The platform, founded by Stefan Fejes and Veljko Tornjanski, is used by over 100 studios and ai…
Thrive Holdings, the holding company founded by Josh Kushner, raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation from SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital to acquire traditional service businesses and rebuild t…
Alphabet Inc. shares dropped roughly 4% after CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis is stepping down as head of Google DeepMind to become Chair and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu promoted t…
Thrive Holdings, an OpenAI-backed firm that acquires traditional businesses and integrates AI into their workflows, has raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation from investors including SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners,…
Upstage, a South Korean AI startup founded in 2020, released Solar Pro 4, a reasoning model that scored 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, triple the 14 scored by its predecessor Solar Pro 3. The model, ta…
Lovable, an AI-powered software development platform, reached a $13.3 billion valuation after raising $400 million in a funding round. The company aims to automate full-stack generation, positioning itself in the competi…
Sandbar, the startup behind the AI voice note-taking ring Stream, has raised $36 million to date, including a $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi discussed on TechCrun…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup founded in July 2023 with backing from High-Flyer hedge fund, activated official social media accounts around August 12 and posted job listings to build a dedicated team for AI coding age…
Convictional, a former B2B e-commerce startup, will shut down and return investor money after failing to find enough customers for its AI-era Slack alternative. The company announced the decision, citing insufficient mar…
DeepSeek has created an official WeChat account for its new 'DeepSeek Harness Team' and posted job listings to develop AI agents that can compete with Anthropic PBC's Claude Code, according to Bloomberg. The Hangzhou-bas…
Lovable, an AI coding startup, raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, up from $6.6 billion in 2025, led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund. Since its launch in Novemb…