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Discovered Materials, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners to use AI agents to discover new semiconductor materials that can reduce heat in chips. The company…
Isselthal industries, a software engineering and AI/data science agency, reported that as of mid-2026 it had not met its April and July milestones for securing an EXIST grant and a concrete product, though it succeeded i…
Erebor Bank, the digital national bank co-founded by Oculus founder and Anduril Industries chief Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise approximately $1.5 billion at a valuation of at least $8 billion, nearly doubling its v…
More than 80 developer teams gathered at the National Incubation Centre (NIC) Islamabad on August 8–9 for the AI Seekho Builders Day Hackathon 2026, organized by Google Developer Group (GDG) Islamabad in collaboration wi…
Fidji Simo, former CEO of Instacart and former top executive at OpenAI, has launched ChronicleBio, a startup using AI to analyze blood and segment patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) into more …
Scott Galloway and Ed Elson debate the bull and bear cases for the stock market at record highs, highlighting the market's dependence on cash-burning AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic and the fragility of the AI tra…
Germany recorded 3,053 tech start-up foundations in the first half of 2026, a 52 percent increase over the second half of 2025 and the highest six-month total on record, according to a study by the German Startups Associ…
Situational Awareness invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a stealth semiconductor-manufacturing startup founded by Stanford researchers Abdulmalik Obaid and Joe Burg, bringing its reported total investment to $500 m…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations, with founder Ahmed Beshry joining OpenAI's product team to work on ChatGPT. The deal closed earl…
Faye, a travel protection platform, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by venture capital firm Madrona, with participation from BRM, Portage, F2 Venture Capital, Viola Ventures, and Lumir Ventures, bringing i…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a presentation software startup, to support the development of ChatGPT. The acquisition aims to integrate NextSlide's technology into OpenAI's products, enhancing ChatGPT's capabilities for…
Amir Elaguizy, a 42-year-old serial entrepreneur who sold his first company to Zynga in 2011, says his age is an advantage in the AI startup boom, citing his decades-long familiarity with AI and a 'vibe shift' among olde…
Job postings for forward-deployed engineers in April were up over 5,000% compared to last year, according to Indeed data, as companies race to adopt AI. Matt Ward, Cursor's head of talent, said on the 'People by WTF' pod…
SpaceX is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion to $7 billion, according to Calcalist, a deal that would give Elon Musk's company control over software that optimizes AI hardware efficienc…
AMD has acquired Canadian AI chip startup Taalas to integrate its technology into AMD Instinct GPUs for more efficient inference workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. Taalas, founded in August 2023 by Ljubisa Ba…
Rogo, an AI startup for financial firms founded in 2021 by former investment bankers from Lazard and JPMorgan, has reached a $2 billion valuation after its Series D round in April and now counts over 300 clients includin…
A wave of startups is developing alternatives to the transformer architecture that underpins all major large language models, aiming to overcome its high computational costs and limited context windows. Justin Dangel, co…
Global venture funding hit a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217 billion (43%), and 72% of US cyber deals through May 2026 involved AI-enabled companies, according…
AI coding agents have become so capable that a non-technical founder can ship a working product in a weekend, prompting venture capitalists to shift their focus from whether a startup has a technical cofounder to whether…
OpenAI has acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide, its 17th acquisition in three years, with the deal completed earlier in 2026 and disclosed on August 8. The entire NextSlide team joins ChatGPT's development divisio…