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Nscale, the Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider, leaves its most important customer, Bytedance, out of the main prospectus for its planned US IPO. The article Nvidia-backed Nscale keeps its biggest customer, Bytedance, out o…

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Basecamp Research has raised $140 million from investors including Nvidia and Anthropic's Anthology Fund. The London company trains AI models on genetic material from rainforests, oceans, and hot springs to design antibi…

Enterprise data startup Ekai Inc. today announced $1.7 million in new funding for software that builds the business context artificial intelligence agents need before they can be trusted with corporate data. Ekai provide…

Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.

OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago, cofounder and technology chief Sam Yam announced on X that he's join…

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OpenAI has hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead a new "Creator Product" division. After more than 13 years at the creator platform, he's bringing two Patreon executives with him. The team will build new tools for cre…

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries.

Snorkel AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence training data, today disclosed that it has raised $350 million in funding. Insight and S32 led the Series E deal. They were joined by more than a half-dozen other ba…

Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led the Series B round…

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

The former UK deputy prime minister is a board member of the UK-based company and owns 917,000 shares Nick Clegg could make approximately $40m (£30m) from the planned float of Nscale as the UK-based datacentre company pr…

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Business identity and risk infrastructure startup Baselayer is shifting its attention to artificial intelligence agents after raising $35 million in early-stage funding today. Alongside the Series A round, it’s announcin…

Heidi Health Trading Pty Ltd., a healthcare artificial intelligence startup, today announced it has raised a total of $340 million in new funding to support the company’s next phase of growth and deepen adoption througho…

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO

Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.

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SoftBank plans to borrow more than $11 billion from investors through risky bonds to fund another payment for its stake in OpenAI. The article SoftBank to borrow over $11 billion in risky bonds for OpenAI stake appeared…

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ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disr…

Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m inves…

Anthropic is reportedly delaying its IPO from October to November 2026 to present strong Q3 results. Investors expect a roughly $2 trillion valuation, but rising infrastructure costs, including $1.25 billion a month for…

Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.

Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.

The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.

Narrative intelligence company PeakMetrics Inc. today launched a monitoring service that measures how brands are portrayed across five prominent generative artificial intelligence platforms and identifies the online sour…

Treble's voice simulation platform is used by voice AI model developers and AI wearable and robotics companies,

Open-weight artificial intelligence model developer Arcee AI Inc. said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash in a new funding round that lifts its valuation to more than $1 billion. The Series B round was led…

Enterprise artificial intelligence services startup Hang Ten Systems Inc. today announced it has raised $53 million in a second seed round, less than three months after announcing its first. Hang Ten provides advisory, t…

Industrial artificial intelligence startup Noetive formally launched today with $41 million in seed funding. Its software learns how a factory floor or a freight operation runs day to day, and the company says design par…

Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today signed a merger agreement. The contract formalizes a plan that was first announced in April. Cohere and Aleph Alpha stated at the time that German r…

Manufacturing artificial intelligence startup CADDi Co. Ltd. today announced it has raised $114 million in new funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion, partly to expand in North America. CADDi builds software that lets ma…

TypeSafe AI Inc., a startup founded by a former OpenAI Group PBC researcher who helped develop ChatGPT, emerged yesterday with $40 million in seed funding and a model designed to put artificial intelligence directly insi…

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Zoom is aiming to diversify its product offerings amid declining enterprise adoption. However, the video communications vendor faces fierce competition.

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The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch.

The company's Meta One plans range from $2.99/month to $499/month.

Congratulations on helping Larry Ellison's AI cloud boom. Now please pack your bags and go

Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?

Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You.com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!

OpenAI's CEO called it an “ill-advised moment to go public” in an interview with Fortune.

Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.