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First Chinese AI startups are reportedly ditching offshore structures to register directly in China
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First Chinese AI startups are reportedly ditching offshore structures to register directly in China

Chinese AI startups Moonshot AI and StepFun are reportedly dissolving their offshore holding structures to register...

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Big tech's AI spending balloons to $725 billion this year
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Big tech's AI spending balloons to $725 billion this year

Big tech companies Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are collectively planning to spend approximately $725 billion on...

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Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
Startups & FundingAnthropic

Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks

Anthropic is conducting a fundraising round that could value the AI company at over $900 billion, with investors asked...

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Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter
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Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter

Legal AI startup Legora has reached a $5.6B valuation and is intensifying competition with rival Harvey through...

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Swedish Legal Tech Startup Legora Lands Another $50M In Nvidia-Led Series D Extension
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Swedish Legal Tech Startup Legora Lands Another $50M In Nvidia-Led Series D Extension

Swedish legal tech startup Legora raised $50 million in a Series D extension led by Nvidia's venture arm, bringing the...

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Agentic Marketing Platform for Enterprises Valued at $2.75B
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Agentic Marketing Platform for Enterprises Valued at $2.75B

An agentic marketing platform for enterprises has reached a valuation of $2.75 billion, reflecting the growing trend of...

AI Business
Google CEO says Pichai says people "love" AI Overviews and keep coming back to search more
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Google CEO says Pichai says people "love" AI Overviews and keep coming back to search more

Alphabet is investing up to $190 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure through 2026, with spending expected to rise...

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Anthropic reviewing investor offers that would value the company at over $900 billion
Startups & FundingAnthropic

Anthropic reviewing investor offers that would value the company at over $900 billion

Anthropic is reviewing investor offers for a new funding round that would value the AI company at over $900 billion....

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Softbank plans IPO for new AI and robotics company valued at up to $100 billion
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Softbank plans IPO for new AI and robotics company valued at up to $100 billion

SoftBank is planning to launch a new AI and robotics company called Roze and take it public in the United States. The...

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Get To Know The Latest Class Of Ultra-Fast Fundraising Unicorns
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Get To Know The Latest Class Of Ultra-Fast Fundraising Unicorns

Since 2024, approximately 207 AI-focused companies have achieved unicorn status (valuations of $1 billion or more),...

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SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO
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SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO

SoftBank is launching a new robotics company focused on building data centers using AI and robotics technology. The...

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Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B
Startups & FundingAnthropic

Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B

Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI assistant, has received multiple pre-emptive investment offers at valuations between...

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Glean's Model Aims to Redefine Enterprise Search With AI
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Glean's Model Aims to Redefine Enterprise Search With AI

Glean is redefining enterprise search using AI-powered models, with insights from Waldo highlighting the need for...

AI Business
Is AI video just a prequel? Runway’s CEO thinks world models are next
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Is AI video just a prequel? Runway’s CEO thinks world models are next

Runway, a New York-based AI video generation company, has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation and...

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Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise
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Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

Parallel Web Systems, an AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised $100 million in...

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Scout AI Raises $100M to Build ‘AI Brain' for Autonomous Warfare
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Scout AI Raises $100M to Build ‘AI Brain' for Autonomous Warfare

Scout AI has raised $100M in funding to develop AI technology for autonomous warfare systems. The funding round...

AI Business
Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age
Startups & FundingOpenAI

Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI is scaling its Stargate project to build compute infrastructure for artificial general intelligence (AGI)...

OpenAI Blog
ChatGPT downloads are slowing — and may cause problems for OpenAI’s IPO
Startups & FundingOpenAI

ChatGPT downloads are slowing — and may cause problems for OpenAI’s IPO

ChatGPT's growth is slowing significantly, with uninstall rates surging 413% year-over-year in May following OpenAI's...

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Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round
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Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round

Dreambase, an AI-powered analytics platform designed to enable data-driven decision-making without requiring a...

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