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Yann LeCun, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist and former Meta chief AI scientist, has joined 224 Ventures, an AI-focused investment firm launching on August 5 with more than $100 million in assets under managem…
Vast, a Beijing-based AI startup specializing in generative AI for 3D modeling, is targeting a $2 billion valuation for its Hong Kong IPO, double its recent private valuation of approximately $1 billion, with Bank of Ame…
Private investors poured $8.8 billion into AI projects in emerging markets in the first half of 2026, surpassing the total for all of 2025 and marking the highest level since records began in 2008, according to the Globa…
AI enthusiasts like Jeffrey Escobar, a 25-year-old from Miami, report feeling isolated as friends and family fail to share their passion for building with AI, with Escobar saying, "It's like I'm in a dark room, everybody…
Noa Khamallah's Don't Quit Ventures has closed its second round of Fund I at $10 million, achieving a 2.5x return on invested capital, with three of its 17 investments now valued above $1 billion, according to Fortune. T…
Christopher Kercher, a former Quinn Emanuel partner, launched Kercher Law as an AI-native litigation firm that plans to handle high-stakes corporate disputes with fewer than 20 attorneys, betting that artificial intellig…
China's Moonshot AI is expected to close a financing round by the end of August at a valuation of up to US$50 billion, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end, according to sources. The company recently c…
DeepSeek has reportedly reopened talks for a second funding round targeting RMB50 billion, potentially valuing the Chinese AI company at about RMB500 billion before the financing, with an agreement possible in late Augus…
Aikido Security launched Aikido Machine, an on-premises GPU server that runs its AI pentesting and AI Code Analysis entirely within a customer's network, ensuring no source code, repositories, or prompts leave the infras…
Kaiwang Data, a Chinese provider of data infrastructure for embodied AI, has completed a strategic funding round of more than RMB100 million, led by Beijing E-Town Industrial Upgrade Fund, Huafang Capital, and Skyline Ca…
Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, agreed to acquire Airtable, a project-management software company, for $1.28 billion in an all-stock deal. The acquisition is expected to expand Bending Spoons' portfolio of prod…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of the Kimi chatbot, has reportedly opened a G-round pre-IPO financing at a $50 billion valuation, with investor interest intensifying after the launch of Kimi K3. A person familiar wit…
A survey by IG found that 49% of UK retail investors had no intention of investing in SpaceX's IPO, and more would consider buying Anthropic (35%) than SpaceX (24%), indicating that retail investors are not blindly buyin…
OpenAI is a deeply mismanaged company without a real competitive advantage, and its main differentiation is price, making models commodities, according to a Hacker News post. The post argues OpenAI's best bet is hardware…
The United States is betting its economy and national security on winning the artificial intelligence race with China, with AI-related investment driving most of U.S. GDP growth and AI companies accounting for more than …
OpenAI announced on June 11 that it will acquire Ona, the German cloud startup formerly known as Gitpod, to integrate its cloud workspace technology into the Codex coding agent. Codex now has more than 5 million weekly u…
SpaceXAI spent $18.37 billion in capital expenditures in Q2 2026, with $15.83 billion on AI, nearly 40% of Microsoft's total capex. The company's operating cash flow covers only 12% of its capex, compared to Microsoft's …
Credit default swaps (CDS) on AI company debt are surging alongside AI sector funding, signaling that hedge funds and speculative traders expect trouble ahead for cash-burning AI startups. Rising CDS spreads can make fut…
Palona AI, a Palo Alto-based AI developer founded by Maria Zhang, Tim Howes, and Xue "Steve" Liu, disclosed a $28.3 million equity offering in an SEC Form D filed August 4th, bringing its total public financing to $38.3 …
DeepSeek's V4 Flash and Qwen-3.8-Max have rewritten the cost equation for large language models, with Nous Research offering DSV4 Flash at a 90% discount and OpenCode reporting 8 trillion tokens processed on August 1st a…