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AI startup founder Dima Eremin says London is becoming more attractive than Silicon Valley for AI businesses, citing UK regulations and cost advantages. Eremin's company Bluedot, which has $4m ARR and raised just $500k, …
A $21 billion startup dubbed 'Kids in Chips' is hiring engineers from Nvidia, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which has not been named in the article, is attracting top talent from the leading AI chipm…
China's Mech-Mind Robotics, a developer of 3D cameras and AI software for robots, is set to open its order book for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise about US$300 million, up from a US$200 million target a year ago, with …
Veeda AI, a startup founded by former Nvidia Corp. researcher Sanja Fidler, has raised $90 million in a seed funding round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, one of the largest seed financings ever for a Can…
Abundant, an AI training data company founded by former Waymo, Google, Mercor, and AWS engineers, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Research Intern for Winter 2027 in San Francisco, offering $10k/yr. The intern will…
Anthropic has expanded its pre-IPO credit facility to over $10 billion, up from $2.5 billion, signaling strong financial backing as it prepares for its initial public offering. Prediction markets show increased confidenc…
Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, is in talks to raise funding at a $40 billion valuation after achieving a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in under two years, according to Bloomberg. The startup's gr…
Sirius, founded by Azamat Khamidov and Benazir Toleubekova, emerged from a16z Speedrun Cohort 006 with an AI platform that automates customer retention decisions when subscribers attempt to cancel, announcing the acceler…
Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it is acquiring OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, a major jump from the startup's $1.3 billion valuation in May, with founders receiving $1.5 billion and investors $6 billion. The deal, whic…
Bloomberg reported that Phia, the AI shopping extension co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, engaged in cookie stuffing for months, with internal Slack messages showing the founders knew about the practice since…
Four.meme, an operational launchpad on BNB Chain, uses bonding-curve price discovery for token creation, while MemeToro, an open-source platform under development, plans to use AI-driven evidence checks and fixed-rate pu…
Stripe Inc. agreed to acquire AI model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at $7.5 billion or more, with closing expected within weeks. OpenRouter provides a single endpoint to more than 400 models from ov…
Neocloud stocks TeraWulf, CoreWeave, and Nebius fell this week amid AI bubble fears and rising bond yields, with Nebius dropping to $241 from a high of $280, CoreWeave to $93, and TeraWulf to $15.62. The sell-off follows…
Higgsfield, the AI video platform co-founded by CEO Alex Mashrabov, has placed its video models on Together AI's cloud, adding another infrastructure supplier two days after closing a $400 million Series B. Together AI d…
Stripe is acquiring AI model marketplace OpenRouter for about $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion allocated to OpenRouter's founders, according to The New York Times. The deal, announced less than three months after OpenRout…
Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk's SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition, but Cognition CEO Scott Wu denied the report, stating the company is not for sale and that no talks have occurred. The report f…
Idler, a Y Combinator-backed startup, publicly launched on Wednesday as a research lab building evaluation datasets and reinforcement learning environments for frontier AI models, disclosing a $9M seed round led by Parad…
Stripe executives told investors in a letter obtained by Axios that they believe the singularity—the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence—arrived on January 1, 2026, and have been operating…
SpaceX approached Cognition, the AI coding startup founded by Scott Wu, about an acquisition, but the talks are inactive, according to Bloomberg. The two companies continue to discuss a compute arrangement that could giv…
Fractile, a London-based AI chip startup that supplies Anthropic, is in advanced talks to raise approximately $600 million at a pre-money valuation of $6.5 billion, a sixfold increase from its $1 billion Series B valuati…