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Wafer Raises $40M to Optimize AI Models on Non-Nvidia Chips
Wafer, a one-year-old San Francisco startup, raised $40 million in Series A funding led by Marathon Management Partners…

SoftBank's SB Energy Files IPO With Cloud Ambitions, No Data Centers
SoftBank's SB Energy has filed to go public with ambitions to become a neocloud operator, according to regulatory…
AIR raises $50M for AI agent discovery and vetting platform
AIR has raised $50 million to build a platform that discovers AI agents operating within companies, continuously…
Anthropic Locks $35B Compute Deal With Nvidia-Backed Lambda
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion compute capacity deal with Lambda Labs, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. Nvidia will…

Saudi AI Firm Humain Builds Regional Infrastructure With U.S. Partners
Humain, Saudi Arabia's state-owned AI company founded last year, announced partnerships with U.S. startups Together AI…

Reframe Raises $40M to Scale Robot-Built Modular Homes
Reframe Systems, a Massachusetts-based startup using industrial robot arms to manufacture modular homes, raised $40…
Meta executive joins OpenAI as India scrutiny mounts
Sandhya Devanathan, a Meta executive, has departed the company to join OpenAI, where she will oversee operations across…

Anthropic to Allow Shareholder Sales at IPO, Extending Lockup Periods
Anthropic is planning to allow existing shareholders to sell stock during its initial public offering, a departure from…

OpenAI and Thailand launch AI startup accelerator
OpenAI and Thailand's Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation (MHESI) have launched an eight-week…

U.S. VCs Still Hunting for China AI Insights
Dimension Capital, a VC firm founded by former partners at Lux Capital and Obvious Ventures, conducted a week-long…

SoftBank Eyes Majority Stake in 1X Technologies at $6B Valuation
SoftBank is negotiating to acquire a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer, at a…
Runable raises $21M as AI agents move into growth operations
Runable, an AI agent platform, has raised $21 million in funding. The company reports that 60% to 70% of its token…

Fintechs Race to Solve AI Billing Chaos
As AI spending accelerates, fintech companies including Brex, Adyen, and Stripe are building new tools to help…

ClickHouse Hits $350M ARR on AI Agent Demand
ClickHouse, a database company specializing in high-speed analysis of large data volumes, has crossed $350 million in…
Accel-backed Keenable builds web index for AI agents
Keenable, backed by Accel, has exited stealth mode with a $26 million seed round to build a web search index designed…
General Intuition raises $6B at valuation for embodied AI
General Intuition, an AI startup developing foundation models for generalized agents that navigate physical and…