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Short-selling volumes for Zhipu AI (Z.AI Co.) and MiniMax Group Inc. hit all-time highs in June 2026, with Zhipu recording 178,900 shares shorted (HK$430 million) and MiniMax 239,700 shares (HK$141 million), as investors…
Autonomous trucking company Gatik AI Inc. announced a $200 million Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies to expand its driverless fleet past 100 trucks by the end of this year.…
AI security company Alice raised $140 million in a funding round led by Apax Digital Funds, as its AI business grew more than 500% over two years and annual recurring revenue nears $100 million. The company, formerly Act…
Azonic, an Auckland-based startup founded by Caden Flynn Scott and Thomas Holdom, announced an undisclosed pre-seed round on August 25, with backing from Blackbird, Antler, and three other founders, to develop an AI-powe…
Gradient Health, a Durham, North Carolina-based medical data provider founded by Joshua Miller and Ouwen Huang, raised $3 million from a single investor, according to an SEC Form D filed August 25, 2026. The fully sold e…
Digs, a Vancouver, Washington software maker founded by Ryan Fink, raised $25.3 million in a Series A round led by Builders FirstSource, which also signed a five-year commercial agreement to integrate Digs' AI-powered ho…
Don Yansen '63 founded Kiwi Health in October 2024 after participating in an MIT AgeLab study, developing a voice-controlled wristband to help older adults use technology more easily. The device, which uses AI to interpr…
Harvey, the $11 billion legal AI unicorn, released Tenet, a specialized legal model built on Kimi K3, achieving nearly double the success rate on its proprietary LAB benchmark compared to the raw base model. The move ref…
Hike Medical, co-founded by CEO Aadi Bhanti, raised $22.5 million in combined seed and Series A funding to automate orthotics, prosthetics, and durable medical equipment manufacturing with AI agents, clinical software, a…
Keenable exited stealth with $26 million in seed funding backed by Accel to build a specialized web search index for autonomous AI agents, targeting agent-specific discovery and retrieval patterns to enable autonomous we…
Loamy Technologies, a Los Angeles-based software company founded by Charles Julius and Jason Pesek, has sold $8.62 million of a planned $9.9 million equity offering, according to a Form D filed with the U.S. Securities a…
Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar and co-founder Benedikt Jenik launched Accelerated Understanding Inc on August 25, 2026, with an AI model that handled 5 trillion data points in a single prompt during tests, aiming to …
Stability AI has raised $76 million in a Series B round from entertainment companies including Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, AMD Ventures, and Pacific Alliance Ventures, as…
Anthropic, the frontier AI lab, plans to tell investors its potential revenue could top $30 trillion, a figure that exceeds the $28.5 trillion market claim made by SpaceX and approaches the $32.4 trillion annualized GDP …
Stability AI announced on Tuesday (Aug. 25) that it has closed a $76 million Series B strategic funding round, including investments from Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and Electronic Arts, making…
On August 6, 2026, Wall Street launched the first 'Neocloud' ETF, holding companies that rent AI compute to hyperscalers, aiming to isolate the AI-compute rental trade that broad funds like the Invesco QQQ Trust dilute. …
Anthropic is expected to tell investors its total addressable market exceeds $30 trillion, surpassing SpaceX's $28.5 trillion estimate, according to sources familiar with the matter. The projection, which has not been in…
Stability AI closed a $76M Series B, bringing its total funding to $232M, with Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Group, and Electronic Arts among new backers. The round, led by CEO Prem Akkaraju, aims…
Stability AI raised $76 million in a Series B funding round announced on August 25, 2026, backed by Electronic Arts and major music labels Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group, signaling a pivo…
Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding, bringing its total fundraising to $232 million. The round includes investments from Universal Music…