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Legato, a hearing-tech startup founded by Bose veterans Mehul Trivedi and Steve Romine, emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding to launch Legato Frames, glasses that function as over-the-counter hearing aids, wi…
Meta alumni are migrating to emerging ad platforms, with OpenAI hiring hundreds of former Meta employees, including top executives, and Amazon Ads, TikTok, and Roku also recruiting Meta veterans. OpenAI has gone furthest…
Proliferate, a Y Combinator S25-backed startup building an open-source, self-hostable AI IDE for agent collaboration, is hiring founding engineers. Founder Pablo, who previously built enterprise AI search at Onyx (YC W24…
Linear, the startup behind a popular product management tool, has doubled its valuation to $2.5 billion and surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, defying the narrative that AI will make traditional software…
Legato, a hearing tech startup founded by Mehul Trivedi and Steve Romine, emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $12 million in funding and unveiled its AI hearing glasses, Legato Frames, which integrate hearing-assistan…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, now expects a total addressable market of more than $30 trillion as it prepares for an IPO, surpassing SpaceX's $28.5 trillion estimate. The company reported second-quarter r…
Two Saudi brothers, Ibrahim Al Moammar and Khalid Al Moammar, have amassed a combined fortune of about $1.4 billion as their company, Al Moammar Information Systems Co. (MIS), rides Saudi Arabia's AI infrastructure boom.…
Chinese AI startup MiniMax reported first-half revenue of $116.6 million for the six months ended June 30, a 283.1% surge from a year earlier, driven by demand for its low-cost models and AI platform. The Hong Kong Stock…
Runable, a year-old AI agent platform founded by Umesh Kumar and Saksham Sarda, has raised $21 million to scale operations, claiming over one trillion tokens processed in 90 days with 60% to 70% from paying customers. Th…
Runable, a Bengaluru-based startup founded in 2025, has raised $21 million in a Series A round co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, valuing the company at $65 million post-investment. The com…
Chinese AI firm MiniMax reported a 283% surge in first-half revenue to US$116.6 million, driven by a 703% jump in enterprise revenue to US$73.9 million, but the total remains only 32% of the US$363.77 million full-year f…
OpenAI has appointed Dali Rajic, former president and COO at Wiz, as its new chief revenue officer, succeeding Denise Dresser, who stepped down after less than a year. Rajic, 53, known for his disciplined enterprise sale…
MiniMax Group, the Shanghai-based multimodal AI company, reported revenue of $116.6 million for the first half of 2026, a 283.1% increase from $30.4 million in the same period last year, driven by a 703.1% surge in its O…
Anthropic, a leading U.S. frontier AI lab, reported Q2 2026 revenue of approximately $11.5–$11.6 billion and turned profitable for the first time, while OpenAI reported Q2 revenue of $6.7 billion but faced a widening ope…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Fund lost $35 billion of its $45 billion assets under management in about a month after running 4x leveraged bets on AI infrastructure stocks including SK Hynix and CoreWeave…
Google is in advanced talks to license technology and hire staff from AI startup Mechanize in a deal valued at more than $1.5 billion, according to Business Insider. The agreement would expand Google's investment in AI c…
Caltech researchers Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik have founded Accelerated Understanding Inc, a startup built on neural operators rather than Transformers. Their system reportedly ingested 5 trillion data points in…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude model, is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) with a reported $65 billion annual revenue run rate, despite substantial losses and an ongoing legal dispute with the T…
The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) will present InnoAsia 2026, featuring technology firms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google DeepMind, Kling AI, and Alibaba Group, alongside a range of startups and content …
Enflame Technology, a Chinese AI chip developer, will open subscriptions for its Shanghai STAR Market IPO on Sept. 2, issuing 43.04 million new shares (10% of post-issue capital) to raise RMB6 billion. The funds will sup…