AI Startups

CNBC president KC Sullivan said the financial news network is on offense after the Versant Media spinoff, focusing on multiplatform digital transformation and leveraging AI disruption as an opportunity. Sullivan emphasiz…

AWS committed $1 billion to embed thousands of engineers with AI agents inside customer companies to accelerate AI deployment, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in a hyperscaler race for enterprise AI. The move addresses the …

OpenClaw, the free open-source AI agent, launched mobile apps on iOS and Android on Tuesday, allowing users to run agents from their phones via the OpenClaw Gateway. The app follows OpenClaw's viral success earlier this …

A strategic framework for companies entering Latin America emphasizes that localized go-to-market strategies generate first revenue two to three times faster than adapted global playbooks. Market selection, ICP developme…

Qualcomm unveiled a high-bandwidth compute architecture at its 2026 investor day, aiming to challenge NVIDIA and AMD in the AI datacenter market. The AI250-series Dragonfly rack systems, featuring stacked DRAM on XPUs, p…

AMD announced the Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package adaptive SoCs, integrating up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X on-package to provide 288 GB/s memory bandwidth, reducing board area by 60% compared to discrete designs. The shi…

Stocks closed their best quarter in years on Tuesday, with the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq posting strong gains, driven by chipmaker stocks and easing concerns about an AI bubble. However, analysts warn that volatility may …

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague startup founded by former DeepMind researchers who created the poker AI DeepStack, raised a $500 million Series A led by Creandum. The company uses reinforcement learning to trade stocks …

Wall Street investors are diversifying beyond Nvidia, pouring money into other chipmakers like AMD and Intel as the AI boom expands. The shift reflects a desire to hedge bets and capitalize on the growing demand for spec…

Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday, offering near-Opus 4.8 performance at a fraction of the price—$2 per million input tokens through August 31, then $3/$15. The model scores 1,618 on the GDPval-AA v2 benchmar…

MDOTM Ltd. raised $27 million in growth equity led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing total funding to $36.5 million. The company's AI platform Sphere now supports over $100 billion in assets across 60+ financial ins…

Coinbase halved its AI spending without restricting engineer access, CEO Brian Armstrong revealed on X. The company achieved this by routing traffic to cheaper open-weight models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7, with 91% of en…

Three former DeepMind researchers who created a poker AI have applied reinforcement learning to stock trading through their startup EquiLibre Technologies, now valued at $500 million after a Series A led by Creandum. The…

Supabase surveyed 2,000+ startup founders to uncover trends in stacks, go-to-market motion, and AI adoption. Key findings include 78% technical founders, Claude Code as the top must-have dev tool (31%), and 62% of startu…

Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and cheapest AI image generator, producing images in four seconds for under four cents per thousand images. The company also expanded access to its Gemini Omni Flash video-…

Anthropic launched an AI drug discovery program on May 5, 2025, offering free API credits to researchers in biology and life sciences. The company later launched Claude for Life Sciences and acquired Coefficient Bio for …

Eitan Fischer, Milo Runkle, and Nate Crosser launched Spring Innovation Fund, a not-for-profit venture philanthropy studio and fund dedicated to Welfare Tech—technology that improves animal welfare while making commercia…

X Square Robot Technology Co. achieved a $2.8 billion valuation after four funding rounds, including a Series C, as the Shenzhen-based company develops embodied AI systems and foundation models for real-world application…

Micron Technology reported a 15-fold surge in GAAP net income to $28.24 billion in fiscal Q3 2026, driven by soaring demand for AI memory chips. Revenue jumped 346% year-over-year to $41.46 billion, and the stock rose 15…

AI chip startup Etched emerged from stealth with $800 million in funding and $1 billion in forward sales contracts, claiming its Sohu ASIC can replace up to 160 Nvidia H100 GPUs for transformer inference. The company, va…