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Stripe has acquired OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, a significant increase from the startup's $1.3 billion valuation in May, according to TechCrunch citing New York Times sources. The acquisition, confirmed by Stripe, aims …
Devoted Health, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based Medicare Advantage startup, is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $25 billion valuation, up from its $16 billion valuation earlier this year, according to sources. T…
Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures co-led an undisclosed initial funding round for Discovery Loop, the AI research startup founded by Jeff Dean and three Google veterans, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Lights…
Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) could file IPO paperwork as soon as this month, potentially beating OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) to the public market, according to Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley.
Intchains Group reported a 94% revenue collapse to RMB11.1 million ($1.6 million) in the first half, prompting the Nasdaq-listed mining-machine maker to halt fresh Ethereum purchases and pivot capital toward a next-gener…
A new analysis from FutureSearch forecasts that six 'neolabs'—Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines, Reflection AI, Ineffable Intelligence, Discovery Loop, and AMI Labs—will not achieve superintelligence by 2031, wit…
Nvidia Corp. has made a series of rapid-fire deals in 2026, including a $25 million investment in Starcloud, which raised $250 million in new funding at a $2.3 billion valuation for orbital data centers. Replit and OpenA…
NVIDIA is paying $6 billion to investors in Poolside for a licensing deal to access its open model 'factory', while offering jobs to 109 employees but excluding the founders, who will raise $1 billion from NVIDIA at a $1…
Nscale, a London-based AI infrastructure company founded in 2024, plans to raise up to $3 billion in a US IPO targeting a September 2026 listing, with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan leading the process. The company, valued a…
London-based AI data center company Nscale is seeking to raise up to $3 billion in a US IPO that could occur as soon as September, working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., according to people famil…
Wolfe Research projects Nebius Group (NASDAQ: NBIS) can reach more than $41 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 2030, nearly 10 times the $4.26 billion ARR modeled for Q3 2026, driven by contracted power growth …
Z.ai, the Tsinghua-founded AI company led by chairman Liu Debing and CEO Zhang Peng, is offering 100 million free GLM-5.3 tokens to 50,000 new users through August 23 at 6 p.m. Pacific, with a maximum advertised allocati…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) reaped combined outcomes exceeding $8 billion from SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor and Stripe's approximately $8 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, on total investments of about $320…
Citadel has unwound over 80% of the $4 billion in assets it acquired from Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner that collapsed in July, according to a report. The acquisition, one …
Venture capital firm Benchmark's Everett Randle calls the fast-growing market where AI labs pay human experts to teach models the 'Task Economy,' predicting it will become the next $1 trillion category, but a new analysi…
AI startups that build on foundation models are not necessarily doomed, despite warnings from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that the company will 'steamroll' wrappers when models improve. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argues m…
Starcloud, an orbital-compute developer founded in 2024, raised a $250 million extension to its Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, led by Manhattan West Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, Cisco, Benchmark, EQT,…
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, has raised approximately $200M in total capital, including a $170M Series A on March 30, 2026, reaching a $1.1B post-money valuation and becoming the fastest Y Combinator company to hit u…
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites for orbital AI inference, has raised a $250 million extension to its Series A round, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The extension, led by Manhattan West Ventures with part…
Anthropic-backed Ode has acquired Casper, signaling a shift in the AI services race toward enterprise deployment and integration. The acquisition underscores the growing importance of services over model development in t…