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[funding]Aug 4, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Aug 4, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Aug 1, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Jul 22, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Jul 21, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Jul 20, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Jul 20, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Jul 17, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Jul 15, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Jul 13, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.

[funding]Jul 11, 2026By ByteBulletin Editors

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.