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AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million and secured $1 billion in sales contracts for its Sohu ASIC, a transformer-specific chip that claims to outperform Nvidia's H100. The company, founded in 2022, is betting on the…
The Carnegie Foundation named its 2026 'Great Immigrants, Great Americans' honorees, including Citi CEO Jane Fraser and AI healthcare CEO Iman Abuzeid, as immigration advocates voice concerns over U.S. policy. Foundation…
CoreWeave has partnered with Swedish data center operator Conapto to add two Stockholm campuses to its European AI infrastructure, pushing its global data center total to 49 and active power capacity past 1 GW. The coloc…
Omnea founder Ben Freeman is launching the Omnea Future Founders Fund with Firedrop, offering employees who complete five years at the procurement AI startup $250,000 to start their next company. The program aims to attr…
Anthropic faces escalating hostility from the Trump administration, including export controls on its Mythos AI model and a Pentagon supply chain risk label, after refusing to comply with new government demands. Unlike Op…
Palantir stock has crashed 35% this year and fallen 45% from its 52-week high, despite strong first-quarter revenue of $1.63 billion. Analysts like Wedbush's Dan Ives argue the sell-off is overdone, citing Palantir's cen…
Lenny's Newsletter announces a new course, 'Become an AI-Native Builder,' co-developed with Colin Matthews, to teach product managers how to leverage AI tools like Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for prototyping, data que…
Genesys acquired Pinkfish on June 30, 2026, gaining a 25,000-tool MCP ecosystem and 500-plus integrations to enable autonomous multi-step task execution by virtual agents in its contact-center platform. The deal addresse…
8090 Labs, an AI software factory startup founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, raised $135 million in Series A funding led by Salesforce Ventures to automate software delivery for regulated enterprises. The company plans to …
X Square Robot closed a Series C financing round on June 29, 2026, pushing its valuation above $2.8 billion. The startup has received backing from major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance, Meituan, and Xiaom…
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more have reached their highest level since 2021, with 13 such liquidity events in Q2 2026, driven partly by SpaceX's IPO. Meanwhile, AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI are shifting f…
Stathera Inc. closed a $55 million Series B financing round led by Maverick Silicon to scale production of its MEMS-based silicon timing components for AI data centers. The oversubscribed round brings total funding to $7…
Morgan Stanley forecasts US investment-grade corporate debt issuance will reach $2.2 trillion to $2.46 trillion in 2026, driven by massive AI infrastructure spending from tech giants. The bank estimates global AI-related…
ServiceTrade acquired Mura, an agentic AI platform for field-service billing and collections, to expand its Stella suite with Stella Invoice and Stella Collect. The acquisition aims to accelerate cash flow for contractor…
Salesforce's integration of Anthropic's Claude Tag AI agent into Slack has sparked internal concerns among employees who fear the feature could cannibalize Salesforce's own AI products like Agentforce and Slackbot. Despi…
Pie, an AI growth platform for small businesses, raised $23.7 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to help small businesses maintain visibility in AI-driven search results.
Anthropic paused its planned June 15 billing change for Claude Agent SDK and headless workflows after developer backlash and ahead of its IPO. The change would have moved agent usage off subscriptions onto separate credi…
Vertical AI startups like Harvey ($11B) and Abridge have proven that wrapping a foundation model with proprietary data and domain workflow logic creates billion-dollar companies. Agriculture is the next frontier, with a …
Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., warned of the Trump administration's 'fetishization' of Silicon Valley startups and announced plans to scrutinize contracting practices, revive federal IT oversight, and push for AI policy i…
Toronto-based AI startup Spellbook launched its Autonomous Contract Management (ACM) product on Tuesday, aiming to automate contract drafting, signing, and renewals for legal teams. The company, valued at $350 million US…