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Red Hat and Intel spotlight scalable AI inference as enterprises move beyond the GPU gold rush
Red Hat and Intel are highlighting the importance of scalable and cost-efficient AI inference systems as enterprises...
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Exclusive: Physician-Founded Saile Raises $2.2M To Help Doctors Find Side Jobs Using AI
Saile, a physician-founded startup, raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding to develop an AI-powered credentialing and...
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Sector Snapshot: Agtech Startups Face A Drier Funding Climate
Venture funding to agriculture-related startups in 2026 is expected to remain flat or slightly decline compared to...
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AI startup Recursive emerges from stealth with $650 million to build self-improving AI
AI startup Recursive has emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding, focusing on recursive self-improvement as a...
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Celonis buys decision-intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to provide operational context for enterprise AI
Celonis has acquired decision intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to enhance its process mining platform with real-time...
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Nebius snaps up Clarifai’s compute orchestration tech and talent to enhance AI inference
Nebius Group has acquired the core engineering team, patents, and inference/compute orchestration technology from AI...
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CME Group and Silicon Data to launch AI compute futures market
Silicon Data, an AI compute infrastructure market intelligence startup, will partner with CME Group to launch a new...
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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M
Kevin Hartz's venture firm A* closed its third fund with $450M, taking a generalist approach to backing startups. The...
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Startup That Aims to Widen Access to Compute Draws $1.3B
An AI startup focused on democratizing access to computing power has secured $1.3 billion in funding. The company's...
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Nscale Gets $790M in Financing for Norway AI Buildout
Nscale, a neocloud startup, has secured $790M in financing to support its AI infrastructure expansion in Norway. The...
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Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released its first AI model designed to improve voice interaction by processing...
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Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool
Dessn, a new startup, has raised $6M in funding to develop AI-powered design tools that integrate directly with...
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AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals
Vapi, an AI voice startup, achieved a $500M valuation after winning a contract with Amazon Ring over 40 competing...
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European AI Funding Is Growing. Will That Boost The Region’s Startup Scene?
European venture capital funding for AI startups is growing significantly in 2026, with investments spanning frontier...
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Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Digg, the once-popular social news aggregator, has relaunched as an AI-focused news platform specifically dedicated to...
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There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers — Cowboy Space raised $275M to build them
Cowboy Space raised $275M to build data centers in orbit to meet the growing demand for AI compute. The venture...
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Nvidia pumps over 40 billion dollars into AI partners so far in 2026
Nvidia has invested over $40 billion in AI companies during 2025, establishing itself as the industry's leading...
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Nvidia in $2.1B Deal With Data Center Provider IREN
Nvidia has signed a $2.1 billion deal with data center provider IREN as part of a broader trend of major tech companies...
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Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data
Config, a Korean startup backed by major manufacturers, is positioning itself as a data provider for robot learning and...
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