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Twinly Lab launched an AI twin marketplace that lets creators build face-to-face AI avatars trained on their own knowledge and earn up to 90% of each paid consultation. The platform, founded by Aleks, uses a flat Pro sub…
Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, is reportedly preparing to tell investors it sees a total addressable market exceeding $30 trillion, according to sources. The company's private valuation has reached $965 billion …
Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) is positioned as a contrarian large-cap tech bet for 2026, with 24/7 Wall St. setting a price target of $309.57, implying 12.05% upside from the current price of $276.27, and issuing a BUY recomm…
Emerald AI, a startup that helps AI data centers reduce power use during grid strain, raised $150 million in Series A funding, valuing the company at $1.05 billion. The round, one of the largest for an AI infrastructure …
Series Entertainment has launched RUN, an AI-based platform in beta that lets users create and publish games for mobile, web, and soon TV and Steam, aiming to reduce development time from months or years to days. The pla…
Mexican startup Primero launched publicly on Tuesday with a $12 million seed round co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst to bring AI to Latin American blue-chip companies. The funding, among the larger seed financings in…
Anthropic, targeting a $2 trillion IPO that could eclipse SpaceX, is asking job candidates in culture interviews how they would react if the company abandoned its AI ambitions for safety reasons and its stock fell to zer…
OpenAI acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, and documents into editable presentations, with founder Ahmed Beshry joining OpenAI in March 2026 and announcing the deal on August 7, 2026. The standalone…
Gamma, a presentation startup backed by Accel and South Park Commons, has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica to establish a design research lab, with Lica's co-founders leading the effort. Lica, founded in 2023 by…
Stability AI, the AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in a Series B funding round backed by Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures, and P…
Rank21, an independently operated AI product pay-to-rank board at outbidlol.ai, launched with a fixed-supply Rank Power system where earlier boosts cost less, offering a maximum of 21,000,000 RP across ten eras with each…
Ben Rosen, the longtime chairman of Compaq Computer Corp. who introduced Apple Computer Inc. to Morgan Stanley and provided early financing to Compaq, Silicon Graphics, Lotus Software, and Electronic Arts Inc., died on A…
Repodo, an AI-native audit firm founded by three former Lunar executives and auditor Anders Houmann, has raised €8.2 million in a funding round led by Hedosophia and Seed Capital to target the €80 billion global audit ma…
Oro, a Dubai-based financial AI platform, raised $3 million in funding led by MH Ventures and MapleBlock Capital, bringing its cumulative funding to $4 million. The platform, which has over 350,000 active users across 80…
Gatik, the autonomous middle-mile freight company founded by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, and Apeksha Kumavat, raised $200 million in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, w…
6 Group, a global executive recruitment consultancy, has acquired Savannah Group and its AI platform MapX after the FTSE-focused headhunter collapsed into administration due to financial pressures. Founder James Beazley …
Israeli cybersecurity startup Torq raised approximately $140 million in a Series D round in January 2026, part of a broader $332 million funding haul that pushed its valuation to $1.2 billion, to enhance AI model securit…
Keenable, founded by former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and Amazon retrieval scientist Matthias Petri, emerged from stealth with a $26 million seed round led by Accel to build an independent web index for AI a…
Stockholm-based eComID announced a $17 million seed round on August 25, 2026, led by Systemiq Capital, with participation from Regeneration.VC, Course Corrected, Swedish retailer Stadium, and returning investor CapitalT,…
Shenzhen startup LYNOOK Technology, founded in 2026, is pairing a desktop hardware device with a 3D interactive world for AI characters to combat the industry's five-day user churn, according to founder Luo Jingmin. The …