Itβs Thursday, June 18, 2026, and the clearest signal from todayβs funding tape is not that venture investors are spending widely. It is that they are concentrating capital around a narrow set of problems that look hard to commoditize: sovereign [β¦]
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The AI race has reached a point where success is measured in gigawatts. Meta has signed new agreements with AI infrastructure startup Crusoe that will give the company access to roughly 1.6 gigawatts of computing capacity across two data centers [β¦]
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Metaβs $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus may be heading for an unusual reversal. The early investors who backed Manus before its sale to Meta are now exploring a plan to buy the company back at the same $2 [β¦]
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Since its launch three years ago, Elon Musk has pitched xAI as a challenger to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence systems. One of the fieldβs most influential researchers is not convinced. [β¦]
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Itβs Wednesday, June 17, 2026, and venture capital is increasingly shifting away from consumer-facing AI applications toward the infrastructure layers that power them. Todayβs funding activity was concentrated in AI deployment infrastructure, regulated financial systems, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, and biotech [β¦]
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CuspAI, a UK startup using artificial intelligence to discover new materials, is reportedly raising $400 million in funding at a $2.6 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The round includes participation from Jeff Bezosβ family office, Bezos Expeditions, and [β¦]
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The 753-billion-parameter model outperformed GPT-5.5 on several software engineering benchmarks, offers a 1-million-token context window, and is available under an unrestricted MIT license. Since ChatGPTβs launch in November 2022, the AI industryβs most capable models have largely come from a [β¦]
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What happens when a struggling shoe company decides it wants to become an AI infrastructure business? Investors are about to find out. Just two months after abandoning its footwear identity in favor of artificial intelligence, Allbirds announced Wednesday that it [β¦]
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Text is no longer the dominant language of the internet. Memes, GIFs, stickers, and short video clips have become a primary way people communicate online, especially among younger users. AI is pouring fuel on that trend, turning millions of consumers [β¦]
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Odyssey, a startup building what researchers call βworld models,β announced Wednesday that it has raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation. The round was led by Natural Capital and included participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, [β¦]
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Itβs Tuesday, June 16, 2026, and venture capital investors are sending a clear message: the race to build the infrastructure behind the AI economy is far from over. Capital did not fan out evenly today. It clustered around three ideas: [β¦]
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Databricks announced Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Panther Labs, a cybersecurity startup known for helping organizations collect, analyze, and act on security data at scale. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition comes as cybersecurity [β¦]
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Amazon generates the most revenue. Nvidia earns some of the highest profits. SpaceX loses money. Yet all three rank among the worldβs most valuable companies, revealing how investors are valuing businesses in the AI era. On Friday, SpaceX made history [β¦]
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AI has transformed how people write code, create content, and analyze data. Manufacturing remains a different challenge. Factories still depend on experienced CNC programmers who spend years learning how to machine complex aerospace, defense, medical, and industrial parts. Much of [β¦]
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SpaceX is acquiring Cursor, the worldβs fastest-growing software startup, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal, making a bold move beyond rockets, satellites, and AI models. According to a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on [β¦]
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The global AI race just entered a new phase, and one of Chinaβs most closely watched startups is making its biggest move yet. DeepSeek has raised more than 50 billion yuan, or about $7.4 billion, at a valuation exceeding $50 [β¦]
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Itβs Monday, June 15, 2026, and venture capital is still backing AI, but the biggest conviction is no longer limited to the model layer. Investors are writing checks into control planes, identity, payments rails, industrial bottlenecks, and biotech infrastructure β [β¦]
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The race to challenge Nvidiaβs grip on AI hardware may be heading for another blockbuster deal. Qualcomm has been in discussions to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent in a transaction that could value the company between $8 billion and $10 [β¦]
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Nvidia already has more than $13 billion in cash. Now, the company is preparing to raise another $20 billion. The AI chip giant is returning to the corporate bond market for the first time in five years, according to a [β¦]
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China is carrying out one of the most sweeping higher education shake-ups seen anywhere in recent years. Between 2021 and 2025, Chinese universities revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate programs and introduced 10,200 new ones, according to data from Chinaβs Ministry [β¦]
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The rush to build AI applications has created a new behind-the-scenes race: securing enough computing power to train, run, and scale them. One company benefiting from that demand is Verda, the Helsinki-based AI infrastructure startup formerly known as DataCrunch. The [β¦]
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Just two days after becoming the worldβs first trillionaire, Elon Musk is setting an even bigger target for SpaceX. On Sunday, Musk said he expects the rocket company could generate more than $1 trillion in annual revenue by 2031, a [β¦]
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The battle for the future of enterprise software just got more expensive. Salesforce announced Monday that it is acquiring AI customer service startup Fin in a deal valued at roughly $3.6 billion, marking one of the companyβs biggest bets on [β¦]
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