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Venture capital investment in Physical AI startups, including robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, and industrial automation, surged to $47.4 billion in the first half of 2026, an 80% increase year-over-year, accord…
Legal tech start-up Legora is betting that AI giants will leave lucrative niches unconquered, as it launches an AI-powered legal assistant. The company aims to disrupt the legal sector by offering specialized tools that …
Anthropic is preparing to file publicly for its IPO by end of August, targeting a valuation north of $2 trillion, which would match or beat SpaceX's record $75 billion raise from June. The company's revenue surged from $…
Exa co-founder Will Bryk announced on August 22 that Jeff Pinner, former CTO of Robinhood and Lyft, has been appointed as Exa's chief technology officer. Pinner, who was separated from Robinhood's CTO role on May 7, 2026…
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence start-up behind the Claude AI models, could raise more than $100 billion in its initial public offering, potentially valuing the company at $2 trillion and breaking SpaceX's record …
Rillet, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2024, has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to over $200 million in 14 months. The company's AI agent, Aura, op…
Venture capital firms are investing in 'digital brains'—AI systems that provide persistent memory and reasoning—after Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki pattern turned the concept into a VC category. Bain Capital uses such syste…
Hugging Face leads online communities for AI founders and indie hackers in 2025 with over 10 million registered users, according to a new overview of platforms where AI entrepreneurs gather. The report highlights Reddit'…
Fal, a generative AI company, was valued at $1.5 billion in a funding round announced on August 1, 2025, according to its X account. The company describes itself as offering 'The world's best generative image, video, and…
24/7 Wall St. set a price target of $166.75 for CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV), implying an 86.28% upside from the current price of $89.36, and rated the stock a buy with 50% confidence. The projection is based on CoreWeave's Q…
A survey of websites for companies named with a number followed by 'Labs' found at least 80 such domains, many of which are AI-related, according to a blog post that cataloged links for numbers 0 through 99. The post, wh…
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said that by the end of the year more than half of his company will be salespeople, reversing his earlier belief that a good product sells itself. The AI era has pushed the revenue threshold at whi…
David Tepper's Appaloosa Management sold its entire 281,250-share SanDisk position in Q2 2026, worth about $179 million, after a 591% year-to-date rally, and redeployed capital into Amazon, Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor M…
Anthropic and OpenAI's combined annual recurring revenue has surpassed $115 billion, approaching Microsoft's roughly $150 billion annualized run rate in its Productivity and Business Processes segment, according to data …
Alphabet shares fell 4.03% on 5 August, wiping roughly $186 billion (£138 billion) from market value, after Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years with three senior AI researchers to launch Discovery Loop, a new AI venture…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, is preparing for an initial public offering that could match or exceed SpaceX's record-setting debut, with registration documents potentially filed as soon as the end of A…
Nvidia struck a $6 billion licensing deal with AI coding startup Poolside that includes a $1 billion investment at a $12 billion pre-money valuation and job offers for 109 employees, without formally acquiring the compan…
Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, has acted as an informal strategic adviser since the company's founding, helping facilitate a connection with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt that contributed to his partici…
Unitree Robotics shares surged 460% on their first day of trading on the Shanghai stock exchange after the Chinese humanoid robot developer raised $900 million in an initial public offering backed by investors including …
A market analyst warns that the AI infrastructure buildout may be overbuilt for 2024-25 demand, citing Nvidia's revenue concentration, hyperscaler capex payback periods exceeding 36 months, and a $4 billion annualized AP…