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Musk's SpaceX Denies Cognition Acquisition Talks, but AI Coding M&A Heats Up
CEO Scott Wu refutes Bloomberg report, while SpaceX's $60B Cursor deal underscores the AI coding gold rush.
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Design Arena raises $7.9M to make 'taste' a scalable AI training signal
The startup behind a popular human-vs-human model ranking platform has raised a seed round to expand as labs pay growing attention to human feedback data.
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Valar Atomics Raises $1B Led by Sequoia to Scale Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
The nuclear startup will use the funding to manufacture fleets of its SMRs, aiming to power AI data centers with waterless reactors.
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Etched raises $700M at $21B valuation as Jane Street bets big on AI inference hardware
The AI chip startup's valuation doubled in a month as its novel inference approach wins over a quant fund with demanding workloads.
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Anthropic's annualized revenue surges to $65B as IPO looms
The AI lab's revenue run rate jumped from $9B at the end of last year to $65B by July, with investors eyeing a $2 trillion public debut.
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Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling valuation to $5.4B in eight months
The AI video startup is riding a wave of enterprise adoption, with 390 Fortune 500 customers and $700M in annualized revenue.
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Nvidia bets $1.5B on SB Energy to lock in OpenAI data center compute deal
The investment makes Nvidia the sole compute supplier for OpenAI's massive Ohio data center, backed by up to $105 billion in credit.
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Groq raises $350M to fund its pivot from AI chips to Nvidia-powered neocloud
Groq's new funding round, led by Disruptive with Nvidia's participation, values the company at $3.5 billion as it shifts from chipmaking to operating Nvidia-based AI cloud infrastructure.
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June raises $20M to help enterprises actually deploy AI agents
A new startup backed by Marc Benioff aims to solve the AI deployment problem with a platform that automates the messy integration work.
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Stripe to Acquire AI Gateway OpenRouter for $7B
The payments giant is reportedly buying the AI model gateway to bring order to the fragmented LLM marketplace.
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SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor
Cursor is now part of SpaceX, gaining access to what it calls 'the largest fleet of GPUs in the world.'
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Anthropic's $2T IPO Ambition: AI's Biggest Test Yet
Investors expect the Claude maker to float at a $2 trillion valuation in October, which would be the largest IPO ever and a critical stress test for the AI boom.
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Blacksmith raises $45M to solve the AI-code validation bottleneck
The startup's valuation jumped 10x as AI coding tools flood the industry with unchecked code.
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River AI raises $1.1B to rebuild AI from scratch with personally trainable agents
The xAI co-founder's 2-month-old startup lands a massive seed round to reinvent model training, promising agents that are truly yours.
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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide to Bolster ChatGPT’s Presentation Capabilities
The presentation startup’s team joins OpenAI to advance AI-driven visual communication inside ChatGPT.
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SpaceX's AI pivot pays off: compute deals with Anthropic and Google fuel revenue surge, but losses persist
SpaceX's first earnings since its record IPO show AI compute deals and Starlink growth doubling revenue, but the company still loses money as capex balloons.
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Prentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, seeks $100M for computer-use agents
The startup, founded by Ritankar Das, claims its smaller model outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on benchmarks for automating office workflows.
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Cyera Acquires Oasis Security for $1B to Rein In Rogue AI Agents
The data security unicorn bets big on non-human identity management as enterprises struggle to control proliferating AI agents.
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Microsoft's Anthropic Bet Pays Off Big in One Quarter, While OpenAI Investment Stumbles
Microsoft logged a $3.2 billion gain on its Anthropic investment in a single quarter, nearly matching its full-year gain on OpenAI, which saw a $600 million markdown.
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Nonprofit Current AI pushes to build a 'World Wide Web' for public AI infrastructure
With $400M in funding and a growing portfolio of open-source tools, the nonprofit aims to create a public alternative to Big Tech's closed AI systems.
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Netflix Paid $587M for Ben Affleck's AI Filmmaking Startup InterPositive
The acquisition, previously undisclosed at this price, signals Netflix's aggressive push into generative AI for content production.
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Infinity Raises $15M to Build a Universal CUDA Alternative for AI Inference
The startup aims to democratize AI chip access by using an autonomous agent to generate low-level kernel code for any hardware.
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Databricks hits $188B valuation as its AI pivot pays off — and its coding benchmarks turn heads
The data analytics giant raises another massive round, this time at a $188 billion valuation, while pushing open-weight models and cost-conscious agentic workflows for enterprise AI.
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General Compute Lands $400M Loan for Inference Chips, Signaling Shift in AI Infrastructure Financing
The inference cloud startup uses SambaNova chips as collateral in what may be the first large-scale loan tied to non-Nvidia inference silicon.
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Indian AI coding startup Emergent hits $1.5B unicorn valuation, takes aim at Replit with 'engineering team in a box'
Emergent raises $130M Series C just six months after its $300M Series B, targeting non-technical users with a full-stack AI development platform.
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Nous Research Nears New Funding at $1.5B Valuation as Open-Source Agent Hermes Gains Traction
The startup behind the popular open-source Hermes AI agent is raising at least $75 million at a nearly triple the valuation of its Series A just three months ago.
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Oratomic Raises $300M to Build a Viable Quantum Computer That Needs Only 20K Qubits
The startup's laser-based approach claims to need far fewer qubits than competitors, thanks to a breakthrough in error correction.
