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Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude large-language models, has reportedly made a $2 trillion bid, an aggressive valuation that comes as the U.S. IPO market shows mixed performance with 114 IPOs priced in 2026, 70…
Deft Writing, a new AI lab, launched a public beta of its writing model designed to produce more human-like text and avoid AI detection, with 86% of user queries currently fully human according to pangram. The startup's …
Venture capitalists are funding startups that address the second-order fallout of AI agents, such as technical and human problems they create, according to a Forbes report by Josipa Majic Predin. The emerging investable …
Etched, a San Jose-based AI chip startup, raised $700 million in a funding round led by Jane Street, a quantitative trading firm, valuing the company at $21 billion post-money, more than double its $10.3 billion valuatio…
Etched announced Tuesday it raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street, doubling its valuation from $10.3 billion in July and up from $5 billion in December. The startup designs custom AI inferenc…
Crusoe, a privately held AI data center developer and power provider with contracts from OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft, and GE Vernova, is in IPO talks with Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan, accor…
Canada's updated Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program, enacted through Bill C-15 in March, restores capital expenditure eligibility for qualifying property acquired on or after Dec. 16, 2024, …
Anthropic, the AI lab behind the Claude chatbot, is seeking loans of approximately $1 billion to $1.25 billion each from major lenders, following a recent debt deal arranged by Apollo Global Management and Blackstone. Th…
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind the Claude AI model, is seeking about $1.25 billion from each of its lead banks as part of a pre-IPO credit facility nearing $10 billion. The company, valued at $965 b…
Quantexa, a London-based AI and data analytics company, is exploring an initial public offering that could value it above $3 billion, with listings in London or New York under consideration for the second half of 2026. T…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is set to exceed its $10 billion target for a pre-IPO credit facility, according to prediction markets. The increase reflects strong investor confidence as the company, valued nea…
Hypercubic Inc., an AI startup, raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by CIV with participation from Y Combinator, Afore Capital, Pioneer Fund, Multimodal Investors, and angels including Opendoor CEO Kaz, to use AI age…
Etched, an AI inference systems startup founded by Gavin Uberti, Robert Wachen, and Chris Zhu, raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation in a round led by Jane Street, which tested Etched's hardware and received its…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP, a hedge fund he grew from $225 million to about $45 billion, lost most of its value in about four weeks in July 2026 after a 439% net return in the first half of the year…
Velaura AI, a startup focused on chip design for data centers, has crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold after closing a $110 million Series A round led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Capricorn Invest…
Anthropic, the AI company, is closing in on SpaceX for the largest IPO of 2026, with a potential Q4 debut, fueled by surging revenue growth.
Harvey, the $11 billion legal-software company, introduced Harvey Tenet, its first in-house proprietary model for legal work, on Tuesday. The model, trained on a version of Moonshot's open-source Kimi K3, aims to reduce …
AI inference chip startup Etched's valuation has doubled to about $21 billion just one month after its $300 million Series C round led by Sequoia, which valued the firm at $10.3 billion, according to a Wall Street Journa…
Perplexity's India revenue rose roughly 60% among new users after its free promotional deal with Bharti Airtel expired on January 16, 2026, even as app downloads declined. The partnership, announced July 17, 2025, gave a…
Perplexity's free 12-month Pro subscription giveaway to Airtel's 360 million customers in India drove 56 million app downloads over seven months, but downloads fell more than 90% after the offer closed in January, accord…