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Sapiom, a San Francisco AI infrastructure startup, raised a $35 million Series A led by Dragonfly, bringing its total funding to $50 million less than a year after founding. The round, announced Wednesday by co-founder I…
Wordsmith AI has secured a $14 million extension to its Series B financing, bringing the total Series B to $84 million and the company's disclosed funding to approximately $114 million. The round was led by Intact Privat…
Google AI pioneer Jeff Dean left the company on August 5, 2026, after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup automating scientific experimentation, while Demis Hassabis stepped back from day-to-day CEO duties at …
Etched raised $300 million in a Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, announced in late July, less than a month after emerging from stealth, with Sequoia leading the round and participation from a16z, Jane…
Jack Ma's private equity firm Yunfeng Capital secretly led a $30 million funding round in Corgi, an AI business insurance startup and Y Combinator summer 2024 cohort member, valuing it at $4 billion, according to a sourc…
Naomi Bashkansky, a former OpenAI alignment researcher, resigned on July 23rd and joined Conduit as a founding researcher on July 24th to work on non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that aim to decode thoughts into te…
Google DeepMind is overhauling its leadership as Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day management to become Alphabet's chief scientist and Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to launch AI startup Discovery Loop. F…
Four Google AI leaders — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals — have left Google to found Discovery Loop, a startup aimed at automating scientific research, with Google investing and providing cloud com…
Google is in talks on a deal worth more than $1.5 billion with Mechanize, a San Francisco AI training startup founded by Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, and Ege Erdil, according to Business Insider. The transaction wou…
Moove, a mobility infrastructure company, announced it raised $250 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $2.1 billion. The round was led by Mubadala Investment Company, Woven Capital, Toyota's Growth Fun…
Sekai, a platform founded in 2024 by former ByteDance executive Lucky Zhang, has seen users create over 20 million AI-generated mini-apps since its late 2025 launch, with about 250,000 new apps added daily. The company h…
On July 23rd, a founding researcher resigned from OpenAI and joined Conduit, a startup building thought-to-text models trained on non-invasive neural data, aiming to enable telepathic communication with AI by 2027. The r…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist, is leaving the company after nearly 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aimed at automating the experimental loops of the scientific method. The startup,…
SpaceX's first quarterly earnings as a public company reveal that its core business is telecom and AI compute leasing, not rockets, with Starlink generating $4.2 billion in revenue and the neocloud business driving $15.8…
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning research, with Google as a founding investor and Clo…
Jeff Dean, former Chief Scientist at Google and co-founder of Google Brain, has reportedly launched a startup called Discovery Loop with other high-profile Google executives, targeting AI-powered breakthroughs in drug di…
Discovery Loop, a new AI research company founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, announced its mission to automate scientific and engineering discovery using frontier AI models and large-scale…
Chinese startups raised over $16 billion in Q1 2026, with robotics startups alone pulling in $5.6 billion through 176 deals by mid-May, surpassing all of 2025, as investors shift focus to world models and robotics. Key r…
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI research startup focused on automating the cycle of proposing, running, and evaluating experiments, as reported by W…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a key figure in the development of TensorFlow and other AI technologies, announced he is leaving Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation aimed at automating…