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Higharc raised a $95 million Series C led by Insight Partners on June 30, 2026, bringing total funding to over $170 million. The company uses a structured 3D data platform to compress homebuilding design timelines and im…
Rick Hao, former head of Speedinvest's deeptech investment team, has launched a $50 million solo venture fund focused on deeptech startups. Hao previously backed over 30 companies in AI and related fields during his tenu…
Global billionaire wealth surged 13% in 2025, driven by the AI boom, creating nearly 400 new billionaires and pushing the total to 3,302, according to a UBS study. However, the UK suffered the largest fall in wealth of a…
Eli Lilly invested $40 million in Absci Corporation to advance ABS-201, an AI-designed injectable antibody targeting hair loss and endometriosis. The investment was part of a $100 million equity round that also included …
Israeli micro drama app Shortical raised $100 million in financing from PvX Partners, highlighting investor enthusiasm for AI-driven content. The company plans to produce 20 hours of AI-generated shows monthly, leveragin…
AI founders, early employees, and researchers are cashing out billions in equity and spending on analog status symbols like luxury watches, driving a US luxury upswing. High-end mechanical watches from Patek Philippe, Au…
AI hardware startup Etched unveiled its Sohu chip and rack-scale inference system on June 30, designed specifically for transformer-based large language model inference. The company claims over $1 billion in signed custo…
U.S.-based employers announced 45,849 job cuts in June, down 53% from May and the lowest monthly total since December 2025, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Technology led all sectors with 15,503 cuts, and arti…
A major backer of OpenAI and Anthropic has aligned with Elon Musk's xAI following its merger with SpaceX, signaling a strategic convergence of AI and aerospace. The partnership aims to advance agentic AI capable of real-…
Dexter, an AI-native spend intelligence platform for enterprises that went through Y Combinator in 2024, is hiring a founding engineer in Berlin. The role involves building the product end-to-end, focusing on AI and auto…
UBS analysts found that roughly 60% of enterprises are throttling AI spending by adding guardrails, creating a modest headwind for AI model makers. The trend boosts the value of cheaper open-source and Chinese models lik…
An entrepreneur is documenting their journey building an app with the goal of generating $10,000 per month, aiming to test the viability of making money online with AI and reveal the reality behind online business succes…
GeekyAnts warns that delaying AI product modernization in enterprises incurs rising maintenance costs, slower AI deployment, and widening competitive gaps, with technical debt in the US reaching $1.52 trillion and early …
GeekyAnts co-founder Sanket Sahu discussed the AI-native shift in software development, highlighting that while AI accelerates code generation, human review and validation remain bottlenecks. The podcast warned that unch…
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund MGX closed a $49 billion AI fund on July 1, 2026, exceeding its initial $45 billion target. The fund, one of the largest focused on AI, has already backed 14 companies including Anthropic,…
Jesse Draper, founder of Halogen Ventures, shares her daily routine as a busy mother of three and reveals three AI prompts she uses for efficiency, including verifying companies and auditing social media strategies.
California Governor Gavin Newsom secured a 50% discount on Anthropic's AI services for state agencies through a new deal, allowing access to the Claude AI assistant via the SITeS portal. The agreement aims to boost gover…
OCBC plans to raise annual technology spending to more than $771mn, as new CEO Tan Teck Long doubles down on AI and digital banking. The increase, one of Tan's first strategic signals since taking over in January 2026, a…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said the future of AI depends on maximizing economic value per unit of energy, not building larger data centers. The company reported 45 million monthly active users and a $21.21 billion v…
Nvidia, now the world's most valuable company at $4.8 trillion, requires employees to pay for subsidized cafeteria meals and some drinks, contrasting with free-perk policies at rivals like Google. CEO Jensen Huang's frug…