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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin acquired Situational Awareness, the AI hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, after the fund suffered significant losses. The Wall Street Journal's Gregory Zuckerman d…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who dropped out of MIT twice to build the now-$159 billion payments company, told Gen Z at Y Combinator's Startup School that his urgency to leave college was 'a poor intuition' and that fini…
Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable for $2.2 billion, a significant discount from Airtable's $5.8 billion valuation in 2021. The deal reflects a trend of profit-focused operators acquiring growth-stage SaaS com…
Baseten, an AI inference platform, raised $300 million in a Series E round at a $5 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and CapitalG, Google's growth fund, with Nvidia participatin…
Runware launched its Sonic Inference Pod on August 4, 2026, a containerized data center packing up to 1,200 GPUs into a 20-foot shipping container, promising 30–80% lower inference prices. The London-based company says t…
Zenity, an AI security and governance company, raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Norwest on August 3, 2026, bringing its total funding to $180 million. The company will use the capital for product developmen…
A developer building an AI social media tool called bleam has outlined its freemium model, offering free scheduling and paid content generation. The tool generates a month of social content from business details and publ…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, open-weight under Apache 2.0, from Mira Murati's $12B startup. The model scores 77.6% on SWE…
Runware launched the Sonic Inference Pod, a modular, containerized AI compute unit that deploys in three weeks and houses over 1,000 GPUs with 1 megawatt of inference compute, aiming to cut infrastructure costs tenfold. …
Jump Capital closed its eighth institutional fund with $350 million in capital commitments, dedicated to backing founders building AI applications, enterprise infrastructure, and cybersecurity technologies. The firm will…
Convex Inc., a developer tooling startup founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers, has closed a $57 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Etna Labs, Andreessen Horowitz…
AI infrastructure company Runware launched its modular data center, the Sonic Inference Pod, a transportable unit designed to offer lower-cost, higher-quality AI inference with rapid scalability. CEO Flaviu Radulescu sai…
Endeavor Optical Networks emerged from stealth on August 4th with $10.75 million in seed funding from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz to build a satellite-based network for routing data-center traffic through la…
London-based AI chip-maker Olix, founded by 25-year-old college dropout James Dacombe, has tripled its valuation to $3.3bn (£2.45bn) after a fundraising round that raised $312m (£231m) from investors including Arm and Ne…
Horizon3, a cybersecurity startup, raised $250 million in a Series E round at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, more than tripling its June 2025 valuation of $650 million. NightDragon and NEA co-led the round, with parti…
Anthropic PBC has signed a $10 billion, six-year deal for computing capacity from Nvidia Corp.-backed cloud startup Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., which will deliver the capacity in partnership with Bitdeer Technologies Grou…
Bitdeer Technologies Group has signed a colocation lease for a 180-225 MW AI data center in Tydal, Norway, expected to be the country's largest, with completion targeted as early as December 2026. The tenant is reportedl…
HappyRobot, a San Francisco-based startup automating supply chain communications with AI agents, closed a $150 million Series C at a $1.22 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Prysm Capital and Eurazeo. The company, w…
HappyRobot, a startup building AI agents for supply chain operations, raised a $150 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation, co-led by Prysm Capital and Eurazeo, with participation from Bankinter, Kfund, Koch Disrup…
Italian holding company Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal worth $2.25 billion, five years after the low-code software company reached an $11 billion valuation. Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferr…