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June, founded by Efrat Rapoport, Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat, launched from stealth on Monday with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, with backing from Michael Dell, Box …
June, a stealth startup, has emerged with $20 million in pre-seed funding to simplify AI adoption for enterprises, a substantial amount compared to the typical $1 million to $5 million for pre-seed rounds. The raise come…
June, a startup founded by former Salesforce executives, emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, aiming to solve AI deployment challenges in enterprises by automatin…
A person familiar with the matter said a report claiming Moonshot AI could submit a Hong Kong IPO application as early as this month is untrue, according to National Business Daily. The source-level rebuttal did not indi…
Olix Computing, a UK-based startup founded by 25-year-old Thiel Fellow James Dacombe, closed a $312 million Series B at a $3.3 billion valuation to scale its photonic AI chips, up from roughly $1 billion after a $220 mil…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model, on July 19, offering it at a 90% discount during preview. The launch comes two days after Moonshot AI unveiled its Kimi K3 model with 2.8 trillion paramete…
Mariana Minerals, a San Francisco-based mining startup cofounded by CEO Turner Caldwell, has raised $310 million in a Series B round led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to $400 million and valuing the comp…
Oumi cofounder and CEO Manos Koukoumidis is building tools to help enterprises cut AI costs by using smaller, task-specific models instead of expensive frontier systems, a market that also includes consultants like Adapt…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, collapsed from $45 billion to about $10 billion in six trading days after margin calls forced it to sell nearly its entire public stock portfolio to Citadel. …
Michael Wee, a venture investor turned AI builder, explains in Forbes that falling costs, rising capability, and concentrated capital have redrawn the startup playbook, making it cheaper and faster to build AI startups. …
Oumi AI CEO Manos Koukoumidis and other startups are capitalizing on the AI cost-saving business, addressing the 'widely irrational and inefficient' use of expensive frontier models for niche tasks. Oumi, founded in 2024…
Yellow.ai and Bluerock Acquisition Corp. announced on August 3 a business combination expected to take the enterprise agentic AI company public on Nasdaq under the ticker YAI, with an implied pro forma equity value of ap…
A new framework by Remy, a project management tool, categorizes AI founders into five levels based on their approach to building, from idea-obsessed beginners to forecasters who build ahead of AI capabilities. The framew…
AI founders are now using AI to power their own go-to-market strategies, including automated LinkedIn outreach, Twilio-based voice agents for outbound calls, and AI-generated podcasts, a shift that has emerged in the las…
CuspAI, a Cambridge-based startup founded in 2024, closed a $450 million Series B funding round on July 20, bringing its valuation to $2.6 billion and total funding past $580 million, with backing from Jeff Bezos Expedit…
Amazon reported $62.6 billion in net income for Q2 2026, including $53.4 billion in non-operating pre-tax income primarily tied to its Anthropic investments, which was 1.9 times its $27.5 billion operating profit. Revenu…
Friend, the AI companion pendant founded by Avi Schiffmann, relaunched on July 30, 2026, with a built-in speaker, fixed randomized voices and personalities, a $249 price tag, and a $10 monthly fee for memory beyond 30 da…
AI billionaires are emerging as a new jet-setting elite, with the global AI market projected to reach $4.8 trillion by 2033, according to UN Trade and Development. Notable figures include Elon Musk, who owns a fleet of p…
Amazon reported a $53.4 billion pre-tax gain from its investment in AI startup Anthropic, significantly boosting S&P 500 profit growth. The gain underscores Amazon's dual role as a cloud provider and strategic AI investo…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, founder of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his $45 billion portfolio collapse days before his wedding in Carmel, California, after heavy borrowing to make massive AI bets. He s…