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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…
Exa CEO Will Bryk said on August 3rd that Exa's index now serves 80 billion pages and tracks 1.4 trillion URLs, nearly triple the 500 billion URLs reported in May, with expectations to reach "Google-scale" by early 2027.…
Buildbox, a two-person San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, launched on August 3rd an analytics layer that detects AI agent failures invisible in standard evaluations and traces, such as users repea…
Higgsfield AI, led by co-founders Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, announced a $1 million global competition for AI-generated short films on August 3rd, with the first-place winner receiving $500,000, second place $200,0…
The FFmpeg project thanked AI startup Cursor.ai on Sunday for contributing tokens to several developers, supporting their ongoing work on FFmpeg including development and code review. The amount of credits was not disclo…
Intelligence, the San Francisco-based maker of DesignArena, raised a $7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures, according to co-founder and CEO Grace Li. The startup, which uses human rankings from its free product t…
DesignArena, an AI tool that uses human feedback to rank AI-generated media, has raised $7.9 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Conviction, A*, Valkyrie, and others. The company, Intel…
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo, who left her role as CEO of AGI Deployment in July 2026 to focus on her chronic illness POTS, has launched ChronicleBio, a startup that has raised $15 million and collected over 3,500 …
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told 6,000 founders at Y Combinator's Startup School that the company's founding algorithm was exactly wrong, yet NVIDIA grew into a $5 trillion company. Huang recounted how a $5 million Sega cont…
Zenity, co-founded by Ben Kliger and Michael Bargury, raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Norwest, with participation from Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, and e…
Elon Musk is recruiting skilled trades workers for SpaceX's AI data center buildout, asking applicants to email three bullet points demonstrating exceptional ability to datacenters@spacex.com. The push follows SpaceX's a…
Nvidia is expanding into AI infrastructure financing by providing minimum revenue guarantees to neocloud operators, a move that positions the company as both supplier and financier. According to research from SemiAnalysi…
Hoplite, a YC S26 startup founded by Bence and Ryan, launched a platform that deploys coding agents in the cloud, porting local setups including sessions, memories, and MCP servers. The founders built a custom agent harn…
Jeff Bezos, through his investment firm Bezos Expeditions, has backed Cambridge-based AI startup CuspAI in a $450 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates, valuing the company a…
AI startups are increasingly hiring attractive social media influencers instead of technical experts to promote their products, according to a report from The Information. The trend has led to a 40% increase in influence…
Tangible, a robotics startup that originally built the Eggie humanoid robot, has pivoted to building an AI foundation model for robotics and is now scraping over 1 million hours of POV video from the internet, according …
ChipAgents, a two-year-old startup, announced at DAC in Long Beach, California, that it closed an extended Series A round, adding $60 million to the $50 million raised in February 2026, bringing total funding to $134 mil…
Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm known for investments in Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a partner to invest in aerospace, defense, energy, manufacturing, and robotics. Littlehale, …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness lost roughly 67% of its value in July, forcing it to sell a $16 billion public equity portfolio to Citadel at a 10% discount to meet margin calls from p…
Reforged Labs, a generative AI platform for mobile gaming creative strategy and performance marketing, is shutting down after three years, CEO Robert Huynh announced. The company, founded in 2023, served clients includin…