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Chinese robot maker Unitree, formally known as Yushu Technology, has triggered an unprecedented retail investor frenzy for its $900 million Shanghai IPO, which was oversubscribed by 8,000 times, according to an August 10…
Arcade acquired Smithery on August 5th, giving co-founder and CEO Alex Salazar control of a widely used registry for Model Context Protocol tools as Arcade pushes deeper into AI agent infrastructure. Smithery co-founder …
Rippling sued AI startup Runlayer for patent infringement on August 10 in Delaware, just 13 days after Runlayer filed its own trade-secret lawsuit in New York, escalating a dispute over technology that lets AI agents acc…
Hops BioSciences, a startup spun off from Jeonbuk National University, has been selected for the Daonda Program, a global corporate collaboration initiative jointly operated by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, the Kore…
Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO was 5,526 times subscribed by retail buyers, with individual investors submitting 9.8 million orders, according to an exchange filing on Monday. The Hangzhou-based company sold 40.4 million…
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, raised $9 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures to expand its technology into image detection, bringing its total reported financing to roughly $13 million. Co-founders …
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is targeting an IPO as late as October after confidentially filing with the SEC, with prediction markets pricing a 61% likelihood of an IPO by October 2026 and an 80.5% probabilit…
Anthropic has signed a $9.1 billion agreement with Riot, a Bitcoin mining and AI data center services company, to secure computing power for its AI solutions. The deal aligns with market pricing that suggests increased c…
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion employee tender offer, buying back shares at a valuation of $852 billion, matching its March fundraising round, according to Bloomberg. The move provides liquidity to employees and may s…
A new playbook outlines how solo professionals can build a one-person AI consulting business using Anthropic's Claude Code, emphasizing that businesses pay for outcomes rather than features and that natural language inte…
Stripe data shows AI companies are expanding globally, with the 100 largest reaching 120 markets on average by their third year and drawing 48% of revenue from outside their home markets. Mexico led growth with 264% year…
AI-driven drug discovery has attracted US$60 billion since 2019, with 175 AI-originated programmes entering human trials, yet none have won FDA approval; however, AI-discovered molecules clear Phase I trials at 80-90% ve…
Corma Labs Ltd., a defensive cybersecurity startup founded in 2025 with offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital Operations, with Khosla Ventures and Coatue Mana…
OpenAI completed a tender offer for roughly $7 billion of shares held by current and former employees, using its own money instead of outside investors, Bloomberg reported on August 10th. The transaction kept OpenAI's va…
OpenAI completed a $7 billion share sale, according to CNBC, as the company prepares for a potential initial public offering. The tender offer follows OpenAI's record-breaking $122 billion funding round in March.
OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for an IPO and plans a separate employee share sale at the same $852 billion valuation it set in March, according to The Information, rather than a completed $7 billion buyback. Th…
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, revealed at Startup School 2026 that his personal side project grew to 4.7 million weekly downloads and nearly 3,000 contributors within eight months, nearly breaking him along the…
OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell roughly $7 billion worth of shares in a tender offer, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $852 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The buyback, funded by Ope…
KICK, a new ETF issuer with no verifiable track record, has filed with regulators for AI and space-themed exchange-traded funds, entering a crowded market where at least nine space ETFs have been launched or filed in rec…
The Arena Group, the digital publisher behind TheStreet, Parade, and Men's Journal, is rebranding as Paradium.AI and shifting to an artificial intelligence focus, CEO Paul Edmondson told staff in a memo obtained by Busin…