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The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush
The article discusses sentiment and dynamics within the AI industry during the current boom, noting that morale is poor...
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Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
Nectar Social, an AI-powered marketing platform, raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures and its...
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$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month
Cerebras Systems, a $60B AI chip company, had its 2026 IPO as one of the year's biggest tech offerings. The article...
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AI made a tiny slice of Silicon Valley filthy rich and left the rest wondering why they bother
The AI boom at major companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and Nvidia has created approximately 10,000...
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anduril Leads Varied Lineup Of Large Deals
Defense tech unicorn Anduril Industries led the fundraising lineup in a week heavy with rounds for companies focused on...
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Cerebras Must Overcome Obstacles to Maintain IPO Value
Cerebras has completed its public launch through an IPO, which provides strategic advantages for the AI chip vendor....
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Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI
AI video-generation startup Runway is positioning itself to compete with major tech companies like Google by focusing...
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Meridian Ventures launched a $35M fund with a focus on MBA-deferred founders
This new fund will back founders building enterprise technology in the United States. Meridian is agnostic, co-founder...
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month are working on problems in the physical world,...
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Supertone Releases Supertonic v3: On-Device Text-to-Speech Model with 31-Language Support, Fewer Reading Failures, and Expression Tags
Supertone, a Seoul-based speech AI company, released Supertonic v3, its third-generation on-device text-to-speech model...
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Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware
Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding from investors including a16z's scout fund and Sequoia Scout...
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What happens when AI starts building itself?
Richard Socher's new startup, funded with $650 million, aims to build a self-improving AI system capable of autonomous...
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally,...
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Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026
Cerebras raised $5.5B in funding and went public in what is being called the first major tech IPO of 2026, with its...
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Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded
Khosla Ventures is investing $10M in Ian Crosby's new startup Synthetic, an AI-powered autonomous bookkeeping service...
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Rivian Spinoff Raises $400M for Industrial Robots
Rivian's spinoff company Mind has raised $400M in funding to scale deployment of its AI-powered industrial robots in...
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Nvidia Taps British AI Startup to Build ‘Next Frontier’ of AI
Nvidia partners with British AI startup Ineffable Intelligence to build model training infrastructure for...
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Exclusive: Xpanner Lands $18M To Offer ‘Automation As A Service’ To Construction Sites
Xpanner, a startup that automates construction work by retrofitting equipment with robotics and physical AI technology,...
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Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs
Wirestock has raised $23M in funding to supply creative multimodal data including photos, videos, and 3D content to AI...
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