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Unitree Robotics' initial public offering surged 629% from its IPO price, closing up 487% on its first day, making Agility Robotics' SPAC-backed public launch appear undervalued, according to Forbes senior contributor Jo…
AI News Digest for Aug 19 covers 30 stories, including Galbot preparing a new humanoid for August robot showcases, Leopold Aschenbrenner losing $30 billion by betting too heavily, and State Farm lawyers admitting to usin…
Korea's tech funding nearly tripled year-on-year to $1.4 billion in the first half of 2026, but two mega-rounds in AI and semiconductors accounted for 38 percent of the total, according to data intelligence platform Trac…
Graphwise, a Bulgarian graph database startup, has secured a significant investment from European venture capital firm Oakley Capital, which acquired a majority stake in the company. The funds will be used to enhance Gra…
Unitree Robotics' founder and CEO Wang Xingxing's net worth surged nearly sevenfold to $16 billion after the company's blockbuster stock market debut, making him one of China's richest tech moguls. The surge reflects inv…
AI pioneer Rich Sutton said on Sequoia's podcast that using synthetic data to train large language models is 'a big mistake,' arguing that manufactured data cannot capture the complexity of the real world. Sutton, a Turi…
Anthropic reported Q2 revenue of $11.6 billion, surpassing OpenAI for the first time. The company's growth has boosted market confidence, with prediction markets showing a 98.2% probability of Anthropic reaching a $1.25 …
Seoul Metropolitan Government signed a partnership with Imperial College London on Tuesday at the British Embassy Seoul to boost European research collaboration for Seoul's AI startups, extending its network beyond North…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $8 billion, a deal that buys distribution and inference demand rather than metering technology. The acquisition raises questions about OpenRouter's neutrality as a mu…
U.S. semiconductor startup Etched has raised $700 million at a valuation of $21 billion, more than double its previous valuation of $10.3 billion from a $300 million Series C round in July. Jane Street led the round, wit…
Leopold Aschenbrenner lost $30 billion by betting too heavily on AI infrastructure stocks, according to a report. His fund, Situational Awareness, borrowed $3 for every $1 of capital and was forced to liquidate positions…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree is set to surge more than 600% in its Shanghai trading debut on Wednesday, with shares opening at around 1,100 yuan ($163.14) versus its IPO price of 150.8 yuan. The listing on Shangh…
OpenAI told investors its revenue grew just 18% from the first to second quarter of 2026, reaching $6.7 billion in the quarter ending June, compared with $5.7 billion the prior quarter, according to an anonymously source…
Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise approximately $500 million at a pre-money valuation of at least $12 billion, according to Bloomberg, just six months after its $5 billion valuation from a $300 million Series D …
Unitree Robotics, officially Yushu Technology, will begin trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Aug 19 after raising 6.1 billion yuan (US$904 million) in an IPO, making it the first publicly traded humanoid robot mak…
Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, has raised $110 million in a Series A funding round led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Mayfield, and more tha…
AI is shifting value capture in Nordic SaaS, with the moat moving from software features to proprietary data and distribution, according to Industry Contents founding editor Yajush Gupta. The analysis argues that AI is n…
Rillet, an accounting automation startup, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from its $70 million Series B in August 2025. The company, founded by CEO Nicolas Kopp, …
OpenAI's second-quarter revenue rose 18% to $6.7 billion, a sharp slowdown compared with Anthropic, which more than doubled sales to about $11.6 billion and overtook the ChatGPT maker for the first time, according to fig…
An unnamed developer building an event-driven infrastructure layer for AI agents is seeking pricing advice for a potential first customer, a consulting firm that wants to license the platform for client solutions. The de…