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Alpha Compute Corp, a Nasdaq-listed GPU-as-a-Service provider, is spending $55 million to acquire land and gas rights in Pennsylvania to build a 200-megawatt data center campus. The deal follows a $32.2 million compute o…
Chinese AI startup Manus will resume operations as an independent company after its acquisition deal with Meta unraveled, forcing the deletion of some user data, the company confirmed Tuesday. The Beijing-based firm, kno…
Manus announced it is resuming independent operations, ending Meta's $2 billion acquisition after China's National Development and Reform Commission prohibited the deal on April 27, 2026, marking the first time China inv…
OpenAI completed a roughly $7 billion tender offer for employee shares at an implied $852 billion valuation, with the company itself buying the shares rather than outside investors, CNBC reported Monday. The deal matches…
SpaceXAI, Elon Musk's AI company, unveiled Grok Bot, software designed to act as a team of AI agents that can sign into apps, retain information, and share context, aiming to catch up with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI in the…
PNC Asset Management Group CIO Amanda Agati told Yahoo Finance that potential IPOs from AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI could matter for the broader equity market rally, with timing being a key factor for AI investors. Ag…
Brad Lightcap, a senior executive at OpenAI, is leaving the company to start a new venture, according to a report. Lightcap, who served as chief operating officer, played a key role in OpenAI's commercial expansion, incl…
RUM Group reported second-quarter revenue of $40.4 million, up 61% year over year, with Northern Data contributing $10.1 million since the June 17 acquisition, as the company pivots to AI infrastructure with roughly 22,0…
Keet, a two-person startup founded by Zack Ashen and Tommy Tsai, is testing an iOS app that generates personalized courses with short explainer videos, quizzes, games, and adjustable curricula, available via Apple TestFl…
Volta, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform founded by CEO Ricard Boada and Chief Corporate Development Officer Sofia Gumuzio, emerged from stealth with a $10 billion strategic partnership with an unnamed A…
Bending Spoons, an Italian software holding company that went public earlier this year, has accelerated its acquisition spree, purchasing businesses worth $194 million in 2023, $876 million in 2024, and $1.92 billion in …
Anthropic, the Silicon Valley AI company valued at $965 billion, is meeting with potential investors ahead of a planned IPO in September or early October that could rival SpaceX's record-breaking debut, according to The …
Jeff Dean, Google's former chief scientist and 30th employee, left the company last week to cofound AI startup Discovery Loop, and he detailed his final two days at Google at the KDD Conference in Jeju, South Korea. Dean…
B3 Labs, operating as B3IQ, is targeting university researchers with rent-to-own NVIDIA GPU servers, requiring a 30% down payment and offering an 8% interest structure with a potential 47-month payoff timeline. The compa…
Trajectory, a San Francisco-based AI lab focused on continual learning, has reportedly raised funding from Sequoia Capital at a $300 million valuation, according to The Information, though the claim is unverified and no …
Startup B3IQ, founded by former Coinbase employees Daryl Xu, Viktoriya Hying, and Sean Geng, is supplying rent-to-own GPU machines to privacy-conscious university researchers, with a frontier-level Nvidia H200 rig starti…
FriskAI Inc. launched today with $3.6 million in pre-seed funding to provide enterprises with runtime intelligence for AI agents, logging their tool interactions and flagging behavioral anomalies. The Los Angeles-based s…
Igor Babuschkin's River AI has raised $1.1 billion in a combined seed and Series A round, announced August 11 and led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with strategic investments from Nvidia and AMD Ventures, to develop cu…
Venturehand, a startup building AI agents for SaaS marketing, launched a beta tool that generates launch videos and other marketing assets from a single product URL. The agent, named John, maps target customers, drafts p…
Oumi, a startup led by former Google Gemini lead Manos Koukoumidas, released new capabilities on Tuesday that let enterprises deploy custom AI models with production inference, automatically retrain them using live produ…