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AI Services And Robotics Lead Diverse Crop Of 29 New May Unicorns As SpaceX, Anthropic And OpenAI Line Up Blockbuster Exits
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AI Services And Robotics Lead Diverse Crop Of 29 New May Unicorns As SpaceX, Anthropic And OpenAI Line Up Blockbuster Exits

29 companies achieved unicorn status in May, with AI services and robotics being the standout trend rather than new AI...

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Nvidia Forges South Korea Tech Deals in AI Push
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Nvidia Forges South Korea Tech Deals in AI Push

Nvidia is expanding its presence in South Korea through strategic deals focused on robotics, chip design, and AI...

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The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech
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The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech

The UK government is investing in a state-backed AI supercomputer initiative to support homegrown chip startups and...

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Moonshot AI targets a $30 billion valuation, more than six times its late-2025 worth
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Moonshot AI targets a $30 billion valuation, more than six times its late-2025 worth

Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind the Kimi chatbot, is seeking a valuation of up to $30 billion in a new funding...

The Decoder
How Bigger ACVs Are Bringing Direct Sales Back To Vertical AI
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How Bigger ACVs Are Bringing Direct Sales Back To Vertical AI

Vertical AI startups are shifting their go-to-market strategies toward direct sales channels like private equity...

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Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?
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Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?

Major AI companies are planning to go public, which is expected to result in increased prices across the industry. The...

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Sakana AI bets AI that improves itself can break the compute arms race of frontier labs
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Sakana AI bets AI that improves itself can break the compute arms race of frontier labs

Sakana AI, co-founded by Transformer co-author Llion Jones, has launched a research lab focused on recursive...

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Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months
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Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months

Supabase has doubled its valuation to $10B in 8 months, benefiting from AI tools like Claude and Codex that have...

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Megarounds Proliferate, Led By Enterprise Software, AI, And Space Tech
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Megarounds Proliferate, Led By Enterprise Software, AI, And Space Tech

This article highlights the week's 10 largest funding rounds for U.S.-based startups, with a focus on megadeals of $100...

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This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film
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This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film

Quilty, an AI startup claiming to predict film success from scripts, faced skepticism when its predictions proved...

The Verge AI
AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India
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AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India

AirTrunk, an Australian data center operator, announced a $30 billion investment to build 5GW of AI data center...

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Investors Have Poured Billions Into Plaintiff-Side Legal AI, But Defense Could Be The Next Big Opportunity
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Investors Have Poured Billions Into Plaintiff-Side Legal AI, But Defense Could Be The Next Big Opportunity

Investors are increasingly funding defense-side legal AI startups, a previously underdeveloped market with significant...

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OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides
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OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides

Venture capitalists are investing in both OpenAI and Anthropic despite their competitive positions, viewing it as a...

Wired AI
Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18
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Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18

StrictlyVC is hosting an event on June 18 in Los Angeles bringing together investors, founders, and tech leaders to...

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Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
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Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.

Hello Robot, a California startup, has released the fourth generation of its home assistance robot called Stretch. The...

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Exclusive: Scotch Raises $20M Series A To Disrupt Legacy Liquor Retail Tech With AI
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Exclusive: Scotch Raises $20M Series A To Disrupt Legacy Liquor Retail Tech With AI

Scotch, a Denver-based AI-native operating system for liquor store owners, has raised $20M in Series A funding. The...

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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

Flourish, a neuroscience-focused AI company backed by Jeff Bezos, has secured $500 million in funding at a reported...

Wired AI
Safeguarding SaaS Success in the Changing AI Market
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Safeguarding SaaS Success in the Changing AI Market

The article discusses how SaaS companies must adapt to the AI market by integrating AI technologies into their...

AI Business
These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked
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These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked

Two former Goldman Sachs and Meta executives founded a startup building voice AI solutions for underserved markets in...

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