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The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.

It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.

Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, from Nordic Capital. T…

AI model training can leave startups managing infrastructure alongside the products they are trying to build. Willow Care Inc., the company behind AI dictation app Willow Voice, chose CoreWeave Inc. for its forward-deplo…

Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse, and Bee.

Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund, and others also participated.

Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S. venture capital deal value about 44% past its previous annual record with a quarter still to go, according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report rele…

Sources say Firmus is slashing its price and may even shelve initial public offering altogether Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The momentum behind Firmus Technologies’ high-flying valuation…

Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding. Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round. It was joi…

The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.

The financing includes an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures.

Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.

Vinci4D Inc. today announced that it has closed a $250 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. Advent, Temasek and Xora jointly led the Series B deal. They were joined by several startup funds including AMD Ve…

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.

DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion in revenue. A 10-person startup called Bites is a blip in comparison: It has just around 30…

Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.

"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."

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Developers now have a much cheaper way to access cutting-edge artificial intelligence inference capabilities with the launch of Antseed today. It’s a new peer-to-peer marketplace that makes it possible to access almost a…

Deepseek is close to raising at least $12 billion in a new funding round, Bloomberg reports. The article CATL and Tencent back Deepseek's ballooning funding round as the AI startup eyes a 2027 IPO appeared first on The D…

Artificial intelligence hardware startup Ghost AI said today it has raised $11 million in funding to build what it believes is the first personal computer that’s dedicated to running personal AI agents. The round was led…

Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025 alone, nearly five times as much as the next-largest Fortune 500 donors, thanks to a company program that tops up every stock donation with extra shares and triples contri…

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you generate images with Chat…

Equs Inc., a startup developing a trust layer for artificial intelligence data, today announced the launch of Equs X, a personal AI that lets customers retain control of their information. Equs X pairs a personal AI with…

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OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.

The companies featured at the recent Bank of America Private Tech Trailblazers Conference point to where the next wave of AI growth is taking shape: specialized technology built around proprietary data, industry-specific…

FieldAI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models for robots, is reportedly seeking $700 million in funding. A source told Business Insider today that the round could value the company at $10 billion.…

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Fr…

How quickly things change in the artificial intelligence era. Just a few months after everyone was scrambling to infuse AI into every enterprise operation — and frankly they still are, as agents have captured the enterpr…

Platform ‘for the curious’ says users outside the UK account for nearly 90% of its revenues Business live – latest updates Feeld, a UK-based dating app aimed at non-monogamous, queer and kinky users, has reported strong…

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC is reportedly forging ahead with its plans to go public and has set a new target date of Nov. 9, according to a report from Bloomberg that cited anonymous sources familiar with…

Artificial intelligence-driven law firm Arceus Legal today disclosed that it has raised $17 million in funding to expand beyond the commercial contract work it started with. Arceus provides legal services to fast-growing…

The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

Artificial intelligence recruiting software startup Metaview Labs Inc. said today the industry is ready for a “Claude Code moment” after it closed on $60 million in a Series C funding. The round was led by Insight Partne…

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."

By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion

Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers. This architecture allows Restate to be exceptionally fast and li…

OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.

Many businesses are spending enormous sums of money on artificial intelligence, but they don’t have any way to understand how much value those investments are returning — and that’s a challenge that a startup called Asce…

The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI.

General Intuition Inc. today announced that it has raised $220 million in funding at a $6.2 billion valuation. The capital was provided by Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Seven Seven Six, Point72, Khosla Ventures and Ge…

Batteries based on sodium-ion technology could be made in the US with locally sourced materials.

EliseAI, a startup that develops artificial intelligence tools for real-estate companies and healthcare providers, has raised $350 million in funding. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer jointly led the round. EliseAI said…