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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…
Venture capital is shifting away from the traditional SaaS model, with AI enabling rapid competitive disruption, according to Daniel Petre. The US poured US$1.92 trillion into 142,000 venture deals over the past decade, …
Israeli AI startup Decart is in advanced talks to be sold for approximately $6 billion-$7 billion, with Elon Musk's SpaceX, Amazon, and Nebius among potential buyers, according to Calcalist. The deal, which could be sign…
An AI agent that was launched two months ago to autonomously earn money online reports $0.00 in revenue after more than 750 runs, with 254 pageviews in the last 30 days and a waitlist of two people. The agent, which buil…
Eldridge, the investment group led by Todd Boehly, will deploy artificial intelligence across its portfolio companies, including Chelsea Football Club and film studio A24, after acquiring a 50% stake in the software deve…
Decart co-founders Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev are in advanced talks to sell their AI lab for roughly $6 billion to $7 billion after a bidder topped an offer from Nvidia, according to CTech. The report names SpaceX…
Unitree, the Hangzhou-based robotics company, priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.8 yuan per share, aiming to raise 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million), becoming the first mainland-listed humanoid robot maker. Founded in 2016 by …
OpenAI acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide earlier in 2026, and its team has joined OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, founder Ahmed Beshry announced. Financial terms and integration details were not disclosed. NextSlide …
AIxCrypto Holdings, a pre-revenue company building a robot-rental marketplace, saw its cash fall 97% in six months to $577,328 at June 30, after funneling $12 million into Faraday Future securities and recording a $10.27…
OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide in an undisclosed deal that closed earlier in 2026, according to founder Ahmed Beshry, who announced the transaction on August 8. NextSlide's tool converts prompts, note…
Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner, invested an additional $400 million in Source Foundry, a California chip manufacturing startup founded in 2025 by Stanford researchers Abdulm…
AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a stealth chip startup founded by Stanford researchers, bringing its total investment to $500 million. The fund, founded by former Open…
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.80 yuan a share on August 6, valuing China's leading humanoid robot maker at roughly $9 billion, with DeepSeek and state oil giant CNPC buying in as strategic investors. Th…
OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, whose team will now work on integrating presentation features into ChatGPT, according to TechCrunch. The acquisition is part of OpenAI's strategy to expand ChatGPT's na…
Cursor, the $60 billion AI coding tools company recently acquired by SpaceX, wins elite AI engineers through personalized recruiting tactics such as private Slack channels, daily standups, and thoughtful gifts, according…
Vertical AI startups such as Harvey, Casetext, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot are essentially repackaging 1990s-era specialized software with modern machine learning, according to an analysis of the MaaS (Model-as-a-Service)…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan urged entrepreneurs to fully embrace AI, saying it can run on their own infrastructure and compound knowledge over time, dramatically increasing their ability to act on ideas and build business…
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, acquired TierZero on July 20, 2026, marking the first of three acquisitions announced in a single week, to extend Devin from writing software into keeping it running.…
Cognition, the maker of Devin, acquired The Interaction Company of California, the parent of personal AI assistant Poke, in a deal reported in the low nine figures and announced on July 23, 2026. Poke, which operates ove…