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Ben Affleck attended a high-level AI conference hosted by AFI and Google, 'AI Summit Creators at the Center,' alongside 'Star Wars' producer Kathleen Kennedy and executives from Meta, Google, Paramount, A24, and Lucasfil…
Groq raised $650 million in a round led by Disruptive and Infinitum to scale its AI inference cloud, following a December 2025 deal in which Nvidia licensed Groq's technology for about $20 billion and hired founder Jonat…
Alloomi, an AI startup, announced a full-stack approach to create AI agents that learn from real-world experiences, combining application and model layers to capture professional data and build it back into the model thr…
Incredible, a Swedish company building a voice-first desktop assistant for Mac and Windows, has raised $2 million (19 million SEK) in previously undisclosed funding since March 2024, bringing its total pre-seed round to …
NLPatent, a Toronto-based AI patent search and drafting platform, has rebranded to Clerq to meet growing demand for patent automation as AI drives patent volume. CEO says the new platform will help clear backlogs.
Sonia Pearson's analysis examines the investment landscape for autonomous AI agents, arguing that the market is undervaluing the potential of 'untethered' agents that operate with minimal human oversight. The piece outli…
Sierra, the enterprise AI startup co-founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and ex-Google executive Clay Bavor, reached $200 million in annualized recurring revenue in May, doubling from $100 million in November…
Velaura AI, a Santa Clara-based chip designer formerly known as Auradine Inc., closed a $110 million Series V-A funding round on July 10, pushing its post-money valuation to $1.05 billion. The round included participatio…
AI video and image creation platform Higgsfield raised $400 million in a Series B funding round at a $5.4 billion valuation, with annualized revenue reaching $700 million. The round was led by DST Global and included inv…
Synthefy Inc. has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to expand its Structured Data Foundation Models (SDFMs), which are trained on numerical data rather than text. The round was led by Wing Venture Capital with particip…
Fort Robotics, a Philadelphia-based physical AI safety firm, plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol FROB via a merger with Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp., valuing the combined company at approximately $…
Shengshu Technology, the Alibaba-backed generative AI startup behind the Vidu video generation tool, is considering a Hong Kong IPO targeting at least $500 million in proceeds. Founded in March 2023 with fewer than 100 e…
FORT Robotics, a Philadelphia-based robotics safety company founded by Samuel Reeves, plans to go public through a merger with blank-check company Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp., creating a combined business with an…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $65 billion, a more than sevenfold increase from the close of the previous year, with preliminary quarterly revenues exceeding $11.5 billion, a fourteenfold leap from…
Integral AI, a robotics AI startup founded by former Google researchers Jad Tarifi and Nima Asgharbeygi, has shut down after raising only $4.7M to $5.5M in seed funding, highlighting a financing gap for physical AI start…
Reach Capital closed its fifth fund at $265 million, oversubscribed and potentially reaching $275 million, marking a 23% increase from its previous $215 million fund in April 2023. The venture firm, founded in 2015 by Je…
Anthropic, an AI research company, is on track to achieve annualized revenue exceeding $65 billion, a more-than-sevenfold increase from the end of the previous year, according to Bloomberg. The growth could push Anthropi…
Anthropic, the AI company led by CEO Dario Amodei, is considering a potential trillion-dollar IPO by 2026, according to The Wall Street Journal, with its valuation surging from $380 billion to $965 billion after a Series…
Google has re-hired Jacob Bank, founder and CEO of agentic AI app Relay, as VP of Product for Google Chrome, along with several team members, to enhance Chrome's AI features. Relay, which launched in July 2021 and raised…
Anthropic's annual revenue run rate has reached $65 billion ahead of its expected IPO later this year, seven times its $9 billion sales at the end of 2025, according to Bloomberg. The company plans to go public in the fa…