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Jun 29, 2026
Anthropic headquarters sign. The AI company behind Claude reached a $965 billion valuation after its Series H round in May 20

Anthropic Hits $965B Valuation, Up From $61.5B in 14 Months

Jun 29, 2026
BARO Vehicles' AV hardware stack: LITA Carrier Board and drive-by-wire system for autonomous vehicle development

BARO Vehicles: The Startup Building the Hardware Layer for Autonomous Cars

Jun 29, 2026
OpenAI's 187-page Model Spec document outlining ChatGPT's constitution and three core rules for intellectual freedom, truthfu

OpenAI Rewrote ChatGPT's Rulebook in 2025. Here's What Actually Changed

News · Jun 29, 2026
Activeloop founder Davit Buniatyan and Deep Lake AI database for unstructured data

Activeloop's Deep Lake: The $20M AI Database Powering Fortune 500 Models

Jun 29, 2026
Kobalt Labs co-founders Kalyani Ramadurgam and Ashi Agrawal, an AI-powered compliance platform for banks and fintechs

Kobalt Labs: The AI Startup Fixing Compliance at Banks and Fintechs

Jun 29, 2026
Scale AI logo: data-labeling company that raised $1B and sold 49% to Meta for $14.8B in 2025
$1B · Series F

Scale AI's $1B Round Led to a $14.8B Meta Deal and a New Company Altogether

Jun 28, 2026
McKinsey State of AI 2025 report cover showing 88% adoption rate and 6% high-performer cohort

McKinsey AI Report 2025: 88% Adoption, But Only 6% Are Winning

Jun 28, 2026
Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman at the Stargate Project announcement with partners Oracle and MGX

SoftBank's $16B Bet on AI Became a $500B Infrastructure Project

Jun 28, 2026
DeepSeek R1 chatbot interface on a smartphone, symbolizing the launch that reshaped open-source AI in 2025

Hugging Face's Open-R1: How It Replicated DeepSeek's R1 in 2025

Jun 28, 2026
Sierra AI logo and data points: $175M round to $15.8B valuation in 18 months, enterprise AI agent platform
Undisclosed · Series E

Sierra AI: From $175M Round to $15.8B Valuation in 18 Months

Jun 28, 2026
Was Zerodha's CTO Right About AGI? The 2026 Verdict

Was Zerodha's CTO Right About AGI? The 2026 Verdict

Jun 26, 2026
Metadome.ai logo and abstract representation of 3D product visualization for e-commerce and automotive
$6.5M · Series A

Metadome.ai Raises $6.5M to Bring AI-Powered XR to E-Commerce and Auto

Jun 25, 2026
Ayna founders Yash Bansal and Aastha Rajpal; the startup raised $1.5M seed funding for generative AI product photography
$1.5M · Seed

Ayna Raises $1.5M to Kill the Fashion Photoshoot With Generative AI

Jun 25, 2026
Zaher AI CEO Anwar Ali and Meska AI Venture Studio collaboration for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) in the MENA region

AI Startup Zaher AI Lands $150K, Becomes Meska Studio’s First Flagship Firm

News · Aug 22, 2025
Hades Mining raises $6.4M pre-seed for AI and robotics-powered sustainable mining technology

Germany’s Hades Mining Raises $6.4M Pre-Seed for AI-Powered Sustainable Mining

News · Aug 21, 2025
Digital CFO AI-driven accounting platform for India's MSMEs launched nationwide

Digital CFO Launches AI-Powered SaaS Accounting Platform Nationwide for India’s MSMEs

Finance · Aug 19, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking about GPT-5 rollout issues and reinstatement of legacy GPT-4o model

Sam Altman Says OpenAI ‘Screwed Up’ GPT-5 Rollout, Brings Back Legacy Models

Aug 18, 2025
Refold AI logo or co-founders Jugal Anchalia and Abhishek Kumar with platform interface showing AI-powered integration automa

Refold AI Nets $6.5M to Disrupt Enterprise Integrations

Aug 18, 2025
Jason Zhao, co-founder of Story Protocol, steps back to launch AI startup Poseidon, targeting science and space industries

Story Protocol Co-Founder Jason Zhao Steps Back, Launches New AI Venture Poseidon

Aug 18, 2025
South Korea multi-ministry task force including KEPCO and Korea Power Exchange for AI-driven smart power grid

South Korea Forms Multi-Ministry Task Force for AI-Driven Smart Power Grid

News · Aug 14, 2025
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator speaks during an AI infrastructure event, with company logo in background.

Investors Take CoreWeave’s $1.2B Revenue Growth With a Pinch of Salt, As Q2 Losses Widen

News · Aug 13, 2025
Indian AI Startup Neuralzome Secures $2.4M Pre-Seed Round

Indian AI Startup Neuralzome Secures $2.4M Pre-Seed Round

Startup News · Aug 12, 2025
Robinhood CEO’s AI startup Harmonic launches math app Aristotle

Robinhood CEO’s AI startup Harmonic launches math app Aristotle

Startup News · Jul 30, 2025
Everlab CEO Marc Hermann holds a tablet, with AI healthtech platform interface and clinic imagery in background

Everlab Secures $10M to Expand Global Footprint in AI Preventive Health

Startup News · Jul 29, 2025
Gupshup, founded by Beerud Sheth, raises over $60 million in debt and equity funding for conversational AI expansion.

Gupshup Raises $60M+ to Accelerate Global Conversational AI Push

News · Jul 24, 2025
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