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Groq announced a $350 million Series A on August 17 at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Disruptive with planned participation from Nvidia, to expand its AI compute infrastructure. The company expects to grow operating ca…
Wispr AI Inc. raised $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from existing and new investors, bringing total funding to $361 million. The company also previewe…
Gravis Robotics has raised $200 million in a Series A round led by SoftBank, marking the largest Series A in construction equipment history, to integrate AI into heavy machinery such as excavators. The funding will accel…
Anthropic reported Q2 2026 revenue exceeding $11.5 billion, a 14-fold jump from $787 million a year earlier, boosting tech stocks as Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.5% on August 17. The AI company behind Claude also posted pos…
Peripheral Labs, a Toronto-based AI research company, has raised $8.7 million in seed funding from Inovia Capital, Deloitte Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Entrepreneurs First to bring self-driving car technology to live …
San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics said Monday that excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are now working without human operators on three commercial sites in Texas and Nevada, including a water treatment f…
Xpander, founded by David Twizer, Ran Sheinberg, and Moriel Pahima, raised a $7.5 million seed round announced on August 17, 2026, to bring enterprise AI agents into production, with Pico Venture Partners leading the rou…
Unitree, the Chinese humanoid robotics maker, is drawing more investor excitement than Shein's larger IPO, with its Shanghai STAR market debut expected this week after retail investors oversubscribed its offering by more…
Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that lets developers switch between AI models, for more than $7 billion, a 5.4-fold premium over its $1.3 billion valuation from a $113 million Seri…
Palona AI, founded by Maria Zhang, launched a multimodal AI operating layer for restaurants on August 17, extending its phone agents to integrate customer conversations, business systems, and security-camera feeds. The c…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness held $5.7 billion in SanDisk and $5.6 billion in Micron at the end of June, accounting for 56% of its $20 billion US stock portfolio, before the fund lost 67% in J…
Higgsfield, an AI startup focused on marketing and media content generation, raised $400 million in a Series B round led by DST Capital, lifting its valuation to $5.4 billion, a fourfold increase from approximately $1.35…
Anthropic's preliminary quarterly revenue surged 14-fold to $11.5 billion from $787 million a year ago, according to Bloomberg, as the AI lab prepares for an IPO in September or October with investors targeting a $2 tril…
AI video production has rebounded from the disappointment of OpenAI's Sora, with companies like Promise setting up near Hollywood studios and Netflix using AI in 300 of its 1,000 titles. Higgsfield, an AI video startup, …
Wispr, an AI dictation startup, announced on Monday that it raised $280 million in Series B funding led by Menlo Ventures at a $2 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $361 million. The company will use the fu…
Palona AI, officially incorporated as Proactive AI Lab Inc., has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Ardenwood Ventures to expand its AI automation platform for brick-and-mortar businesses. The startup's multim…
Gravis Robotics AG has secured $200 million from SoftBank Group Corp. in the largest-ever Series A round for a construction robotics startup, to retrofit excavators with self-driving AI systems. The Zurich-based startup,…
SoftBank is investing $200 million in Gravis Robotics' Series A round, the largest in construction robotics history, to scale its autonomous control kits for excavators and mixed fleets. The Zurich-based company, spun ou…
Groq, an AI chip company, has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, a sharp drop from its $6.9 billion valuation less than a year ago. The round was led by Disruptive, with NVIDIA participating, following NVID…
WhiteFiber Inc., a Nasdaq-listed subsidiary of Bitcoin miner Bit Digital, acquired a 96-acre former textile facility in Madison, North Carolina, for $45 million in cash on May 20, with contingent payments potentially rai…