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Shares of Unitree, a Chinese humanoid robot manufacturer, surged nearly six-fold on its Shanghai STAR Market debut, raising its market valuation to approximately $50 billion and making it China's first mainland-listed hu…
Venture capital portfolio reviews are becoming more urgent as AI advances rapidly, making 2024's promising deals look like mistakes by 2026, according to investors interviewed by Fortune. Kamran Ansari of Kapital Venture…
Ali Hussain's New York AI finance startup Tabs was last valued at about $400 million and had raised around $90 million, according to Hussain in a Crunchbase News profile. The company, founded in 2023, has roughly 180 emp…
Jeff Yew, head of Monochrome Asset Management, plans to revive the former Network School campus at Malaysia's $100 billion Forest City ghost town as a hub for crypto and AI entrepreneurs, months after authorities shut do…
Elia Zaitsev, Global Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStrike, is leaving the company after 13 years to launch a $170 million fund focused on AI-driven cybersecurity, with his last day set for August 20, 2026. Zaitsev, wh…
Callosum Technologies, a London-based startup founded by Cambridge-trained neuroscientists Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg, has raised $110M in cumulative funding, including a $100M seed round led by Atomico, to buil…
Endothermal Systems has developed CinderClock, a standalone desktop alarm clock designed to replace phone alarms, citing failures of the iPhone alarm and the high cost of existing alternatives such as the Philips SmartSl…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July 2025, nearly double OpenAI's $40 billion, as the AI startup prepares for an IPO expected in October. Anthropic's Q2 revenue surged to $11.5 billi…
HappyRobot, a San Francisco-based logistics AI startup, closed a $150 million Series C on August 4 at a $1.22 billion post-money valuation, led by Prysm Capital with Eurazeo co-leading and participation from a16z, Base10…
Twin1 AI, a San Mateo and London-based startup creating AI 'digital twins' of individual employees, has raised $20m (£15m) in seed funding co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners and Aramco Ventures…
Jeff Dean, former Google senior fellow, left the company after 27 years to found Discovery Loop, a four-person AI startup focused on automating science and engineering, and said at a Stanford University talk on August 7 …
Kuaishou reported that its Kling AI video-generation business generated more than RMB850 million in revenue in Q2 2026, up over 200% year on year and 30% from the previous quarter, while total revenue rose 1.4% to RMB35.…
Independent developers often fail to monetize AI tools because they market the technology itself rather than the outcome. A developer advises hiding AI from feature descriptions, tying AI features to existing paid workfl…
Callosum, a London AI infrastructure startup founded by Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg, has raised $100 million in seed financing led by Atomico, with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK's Sovereign AI Fund,…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the unified interface for large language models launched in 2023, which has grown to support over 500 models and a 4.5+ quadrillion-token annual run rate. Menlo Ventures, which le…
Fei-Fei Li, Stanford professor and cofounder of World Labs, said in a Bloomberg interview released Wednesday that she runs her AI startup like a 'tiger mom,' setting high standards for her young team. World Labs, which L…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, reported an annualized revenue run rate above $65 billion as of the end of July, up from approximately $47 billion in May and around $9 billion at the end of 2025, according …
As publishers and advertisers race to serve ads to AI agents, measurement remains opaque and no standard has emerged, according to startups OpenAds and Oasy. OpenAds uses unique referral codes that survive AI retrieval, …
Ramp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh launched Ramp Router on August 19th, offering a no-fee AI gateway through 2026 with $26 in credits per account, but OpenRouter, which Stripe acquired for over $7 billion on t…
Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies, a Beijing-based AI robotics firm, is set to take investor orders for a Hong Kong IPO targeting approximately $300 million (HK$2.34 billion) after clearing its HKEX listing hearing on Augu…