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Chai Discovery, an OpenAI-backed AI drug development startup valued at $4 billion, is at the center of a shift in the pharmaceutical industry as major AI tools deals were announced at the JPMorgan healthcare conference i…
Lumilens emerged from stealth on August 6 with more than $700 million in new financing, bringing total funding above $900 million at a $5.51 billion valuation. The San Jose startup, founded in 2024 by former Aruba CTO An…
CoreWeave, led by CEO Michael Intrator, reported $2.58 billion in second-quarter revenue on August 11, a 112% increase from a year earlier, surpassing the $2.56 billion consensus estimate, while posting a $626 million ne…
CoreWeave reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $2.58 billion, up 113% from $1.21 billion a year earlier, beating Wall Street expectations of about $2.55 billion. The company's revenue backlog rose to $104 billion from…
Kikitora, a San Francisco company founded by technical artist Astrid Wilde, has raised $19.7 million in a securities offering to 43 accredited investors, according to a Form D filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange …
The Machine Earning AI Summit, scheduled for Sept. 29 in San Francisco, has added Kirsten Green, founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures; Katie Haun, founder and CEO of Haun Ventures; and Ilan Zerbib, founder…
OpenRouter, an AI model aggregator, has attracted multi-billion-dollar takeover interest, with a valuation of $1.3 billion from its May funding round and revenue around $50 million, according to The Information. The comp…
Kevin Weil, former chief product officer of OpenAI, has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup, aiming to raise $150 million in the round, according to three people with knowledge of t…
World-model startups raised roughly $3.5 billion in a single quarter, with Fei-Fei Li's World Labs closing a $1 billion round, Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raising $1.03 billion, Odyssey valued at $1.45 billion, and Decart reac…
Gamgee, a startup founded by machine learning expert Paul, is using AI to develop the first computationally personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for dogs, after his own dog Rosie's tumors shrank 50-75% with a vaccine he desi…
Higgsfield AI produced a 110-minute AI-generated feature film, The Cully Hill Boys, for about $2 million in four weeks with a 28-person team, premiering August 5 in New York City. The film uses ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 m…
Anthropic, the AI company, has set a fall IPO, eyeing a valuation in the trillions, according to a report. The company, known for its Claude AI models, is preparing to go public, a move that could make it one of the most…
Manus, the Singapore-based AI startup, will resume independent operations after China's National Development and Reform Commission blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition on April 27, 2026, citing technology transfer conce…
AI is reshaping the pre-seed funding landscape, with investors now demanding more traction from founders before writing checks, according to a Forbes Innovation report by contributor Peter Hwang. The shift means startups…
IBM and Together AI signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to offer open-source AI inference services on IBM Cloud, powered by Nvidia HGX B300 systems with Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Pr…
OpenAI completed a stock buyback worth roughly $7 billion, allowing current and former employees to sell shares at the company's $852 billion valuation. The tender offer, initiated after OpenAI's $122 billion funding rou…
Decagon has crossed $100 million in annualized revenue, CEO Jesse Zhang told the company, positioning its AI customer service product against rivals Sierra and Salesforce. Zhang argues that relying on forward deployed en…
Phonic, a San Francisco-based product and research lab focused on voice AI, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for an on-site, staff-level role. The company, which has raised over $30M from tier 1 VCs, seeks a general…
Morgan Stanley reiterated its buy rating on Space X and raised its price target to $300, implying over 120% upside from Tuesday's closing price of $132.6, citing the potential for the AI business valuation discount to na…
River AI, a two-month-old AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combin…