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Jury Ruling in Musk Lawsuit Favors OpenAI
A jury ruling in a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk against OpenAI has favored OpenAI, clearing the way for the company to...
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Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a New York-based startup founded in 2022 that automates SDK creation and maintenance...
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Humanoid, Schaeffler to Bring Thousands of Robots to Factories
Humanoid and Schaeffler have announced a major deal to deploy thousands of humanoid robots in factories, marking one of...
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Sector Snapshot: Quantum Computing Startup Investment Slows In 2026 While Public Markets Hold Strong
While deal counts remain robust for quantum startup investments and big rounds are still getting done, overall funding...
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South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses
South Korean startup LetinAR is developing advanced optical technology in the form of thumbnail-sized lenses designed...
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AI startup revenue hits $80 billion, but Anthropic and OpenAI take almost all of it
Anthropic and OpenAI dominate the AI startup revenue market, capturing 89% of the $80 billion in total revenue among...
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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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OpenAI bought a voice cloning startup famous for celebrity imitations
OpenAI has acquired Weights.gg, a startup known for creating AI voice clones of celebrities. The six-person team now...
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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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Startups & FundingAnthropic
Anthropic's $900 billion valuation would make it more valuable than OpenAI for the first time
Anthropic is raising $30 billion in funding, bringing its valuation to $900 billion and surpassing OpenAI for the first...
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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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Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger
SpaceXAI has experienced significant staff attrition with over 50 employees leaving since its February merger, raising...
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