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Cavdo AI, a new startup, has launched a fast, minimal AI assistant with a modern UI designed for professionals. The product was announced on Hacker News by the Cavdo-Ai account.
Eliyan Corp., a Silicon Valley-based chip interconnect startup, raised $145 million in Series C funding led by Seligman Ventures, with Cisco Ventures and Lumentum participating, achieving a $1 billion valuation. The comp…
Eliyan, a maker of chiplet interconnect technologies for AI, raised $145 million at a $1 billion valuation, led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Cisco Investments and Lumentum. The funding will expand the com…
Eliyan Corporation, a Santa Clara-based semiconductor startup founded in 2021, has raised $145 million at a $1 billion valuation to develop chiplet interconnect technology that eliminates data bottlenecks in AI chips. Th…
Chip design startup ChipAgents has raised an additional $60 million to expand its Series A round, bringing total funding to $131 million, to accelerate semiconductor development with autonomous AI agents. The round was l…
Options traders are pricing a roughly $190 billion swing in Microsoft's market value after its fiscal fourth-quarter results, implying a 6.6% move either way, well above the average 4.8% priced over the past twelve quart…
Qualcomm completed its all-stock acquisition of Modular, the AI infrastructure company behind the Mojo programming language, on July 29, 2026. Modular co-founder and CEO Chris Lattner becomes Qualcomm's executive vice pr…
SK Hynix reported operating profit of 8.4 trillion won ($6.1 billion) for Q2 2026, a 557% year-over-year surge driven by HBM3E demand for NVIDIA AI accelerators, but shares slid 4% after the company guided 37 trillion wo…
Web search platform Nimble launched Web Search Agents, a product that learns a customer's domain and runs complex web research tasks autonomously, aiming to reduce token costs for AI agents. Benchmark testing showed a 21…
UNIT AI, founded by Guy Glass, raised $12 million from Prologis Ventures and Dynamo to modularize warehouse automation. The funding will accelerate the company's development of flexible robotics systems for logistics.
Tether AI has introduced a new vision model for edge devices through its QVAC platform, with benchmarks showing its MedPsy 1.7B parameter model scoring 62.62 across multiple medical benchmarks, outperforming Google's Med…
ChipAgents, an AI startup, extended its Series A funding to $134 million with backing from Micron and MediaTek, driven by sixfold annual recurring revenue growth.
ASMPT Group CEO Robin Ng said in a July 29 Bloomberg interview that chip architecture will keep evolving as AI systems demand more silicon, with the semiconductor packaging giant benefiting from multi-chip architectures …
Recursive Superintelligence has committed $410 million to Amazon Web Services in a multi-year agreement to secure cloud computing capacity for its self-improving AI systems, marking an escalation in the compute arms race…
Modus publicly launched on July 29 with a $10 million Seed round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Soma Capital, Eyal Kishon, Nadav Abrahami of Wix and Dazl, and founders of Cyera and Epsagon, to build a C…
Ex-Anduril and Applied Intuition executives have raised $30 million for a European defence AI infrastructure startup, aiming to provide high-quality training data for autonomous weapons and command systems.
Observability startup groundcover has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by One Peak, with Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing backers participating, bringing total funding to $160 million. The company…
Freehand, a startup whose AI agents manage supply-chain procurement for Unilever, Pfizer, and Meta, has raised $75 million in a round co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners. The company claims its agents…
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, has raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to roughly $14 million since its founding in 2023. The company's detection tool, …
SambaNova, a chip startup founded in 2017 by Kunle Olukotun, Chris Ré, and Rodrigo Liang, has raised over $1 billion in a Series F at an $11 billion valuation, positioning its Reconfigurable Dataflow Units (RDU) as an en…