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Audeara (ASX:AUA) announced that its chip-level AI audio licensing partnership with China-based Optek Microelectronics has moved into commercial production across two customer programs, marking the first revenue-generati…
Chinese labs are giving away frontier-grade AI models at a fraction of the cost of US rivals, squeezing smaller American AI startups out of the market. DeepSeek's V4-Pro runs a standard coding benchmark for about $1,071 …
Youngjun Choi, a choreographer behind K-pop routines for BTS and Seventeen, co-founded startup MVNT with CEO Joon Jung to build an AI system for programmable dance. MVNT, which raised $200,000 in seed funding from Mashup…
AI startups captured 81% of the record $297 billion in global venture capital deployed in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook and OECD data, leaving smaller funds, including crypto-focused VCs, competing for just 19% of the …
Alibaba-backed 3D AI startup Vast is weighing a Hong Kong IPO, with Bank of America and China International Capital Corp working on the potential share sale, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company behind Tripo…
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years for cloud services and chips, a deal representing over 40% of Google's reported cloud revenue backlog. Googl…
AI consultants are advising companies to treat expensive frontier models like costly consultants, using them for strategic planning while delegating routine tasks to cheaper models, as a cost-saving measure amid concerns…
Blackstone is considering a new funding round for Nvidia-backed AI coding firm Factory that would value the San Francisco-based startup at more than $3.5bn, sources told City AM. The deal would mark Factory's third fundi…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is reportedly seeking greater access to Nvidia's advanced Blackwell GPUs to develop its next-generation AI model, highlighting the growing importance of computing power in the global AI race. …
SCX.ai, an Australian AI infrastructure company, is seeking to raise $40 million through a fully underwritten IPO ahead of its proposed ASX listing under the code SCX, positioning itself as Australia's first listed pure-…
Pathos AI, a New York City-based AI-driven drug development company, agreed to license the experimental breast cancer drug JSKN016 from China's Jiangsu Alphamab Biopharmaceutical for an upfront payment of $125 million, w…
More venture capital firms are expanding into deep tech, prompting investors to seek startups with stronger technological barriers to entry, as Singapore ramps up support for the sector and artificial intelligence commod…
Zenity Ltd., an Israeli AI security startup, announced a $125 million Series C funding round led by Norwest, with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Qumra Capital, Hitachi Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, Vertex…
June.ai Technologies Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to modernize enterprise software environments, launched today with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Time Ventures, with participation from SV Angel…
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp celebrated a 93% year-over-year revenue surge to $1.94 billion in the second quarter ended June 30, beating analyst expectations of $1.801 billion, as the company's stock jumped more t…
Bending Spoons, the Milanese tech acquirer, announced the purchase of Airtable, the database and workflow startup, for $1.2 billion net of cash, a steep discount from its previous $11 billion valuation. The deal excludes…
SageOx, a startup betting on human-AI coworker teams, raised $15 million in 15 days, from the first investor call on March 12 to a term sheet on March 26, based on team trust and radical transparency rather than a polish…
A developer with 18 years in technology, including six as a CTO, shares lessons from co-founding CatechLabs, where the focus has shifted from building software to building a company. The developer emphasizes that while A…
Cicero, Inc., the legal entity behind AI sales-coaching platform Othello, disclosed a $6.85 million equity round from 35 investors in a Form D filed with the SEC on August 3rd, with CEO Jared Zelman signing the filing on…
Emerald AI founder and CEO Varun Sivaram disclosed $90,229,639 sold toward a planned $150,000,000 equity offering in a Form D filed August 3, 2026, leaving $59,770,361 to sell. The filing lists Sivaram as chief executive…