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Sanja Fidler, former vice president of AI research at NVIDIA, launched Veeda AI on Wednesday with Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling to build world models that train robots in simulated physical environments. The startup aims to p…
OpenAI reported Q2 revenue of $6.7 billion, up 18% from the prior quarter, but the growth disappointed investors, according to Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley, who noted that rival Anthropic is pulling ahead in the …
SpaceX has initiated discussions with Cognition AI, the company behind the Devin AI coding agent, about a potential acquisition, according to Bloomberg. The talks come just days after SpaceX finalized its $60 billion all…
MemeToro, an AI-based memecoin agent on BNB Chain, has raised $96,309.30 in its Stage 6 presale toward a $138,460.70 goal, with one $MT token priced at $0.00350 against a projected $0.02448 launch price. The project uses…
SpaceX approached artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. about a potential acquisition, though talks are not currently active, according to people familiar with the matter. Cognition, valued at $26 bill…
Stripe, the payment processor, agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI start-up, in an $8 billion deal, marking Stripe's largest-ever acquisition as part of its broader push into the AI economy.
Stripe made its largest-ever acquisition official Wednesday, signing a deal to acquire AI developer tool OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, according to The New York Times. OpenRouter, founded in early 2023, provides a widely …
Nvidia is in discussions to invest in AI data marketplace Mercor at a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth since its Series C round nine months ago. Mercor, which counts OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia among its clien…
Temporal Technologies, a durable execution platform founded in 2019, is in talks to raise approximately $500 million at a valuation exceeding $12 billion, according to Bloomberg. The company, which counts OpenAI as its l…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 50 fellows selected for its inaugural 8-week Talent Engineer Fellowship, an AI-focused program for talent leaders building AI-native recruiting systems. The cohort includes talent…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate topped $65 billion by the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and about $9 billion at the end of 2025, according to a person familiar with the company's financial updates, putt…
Unitree, the world's largest humanoid robot maker, surged more than 600% on its Shanghai stock market debut Wednesday, with shares hitting 1,100 yuan ($120.39) before paring gains to nearly 500%. The company, officially …
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway and routing platform that helps businesses optimize token usage across 400+ models from more than 80 providers. T…
OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace and gateway processing 10+ trillion tokens daily from 400+ models for over 10 million developers, announced it is joining Stripe, the financial infrastructure platform, to accelerate …
Investor Jake Saper of Emergence Capital is promoting AINS, or AI-Native Services, as the next frontier for startups, predicting that accounting, insurance, and legal industries will be transformed by AI-native firms tha…
Silicon Data closed a $30 million Series A to become the reference price for GPU rental and an index for Wall Street futures contracts. The company plans to launch compute futures trading on the CME on October 5, pending…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace and routing platform, in a deal reportedly valued at more than $7 billion. OpenRouter processes over 10 trillion tokens per day across more than 400 AI mod…
Goldman Sachs global co-head of investment banking Matthew McClure declared the IPO market 'open for business,' noting that AI-related companies have generated more than 50% of all IPO capital raised this year despite re…
Michael Burry, the investor known from 'The Big Short,' warned in a Substack post on Tuesday that Nvidia faces 'serious competition' from AI startup Etched, which has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation and co…
Applied Materials Inc. shares fell 4% to $494.82, while Lam Research Corp. and Teradyne Inc. each dropped 5% to $309.94 and $384.26, respectively, as investors repriced AI infrastructure spending amid reports that nine t…