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Investors are pouring record amounts into the companies building the data, chips, and software powering the next phase of artificial intelligence. The scale of the buildout is now rewriting how private markets price risk.
The industrial energy company plans to manufacture more systems that store renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and dispatchable power.
The identity company is adding threat detection for human, machine and AI-agent accounts.
The AI cloud provider is adding the software behind Ray to build a broader infrastructure stack.
The round is led by an infrastructure fund making its first venture-stage commitment.
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
The chipmaker is bringing a hardware-neutral AI software platform into its edge-to-cloud strategy.
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
Apple Upgrade replaces two existing U.S. payment programs and lets eligible customers return, buy or exchange a device at the end of the lease.
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
The AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
The Palo Alto and Tel Aviv company reached a $1.2 billion valuation with a prevention-focused approach to securing devices used for AI work.
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and the restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model target different production requirements.
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
The linguistics-led startup is training speech systems to handle specialized vocabulary, varied accents and real-time customer conversations.
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
The company behind a widely used local AI tool is adding resources for enterprise adoption while keeping its open-source distribution engine.
The Sol, Terra and Luna variants divide frontier capability, balanced professional work and high-volume tasks across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
The startup is adding automation to a data layer that connects the accounting, project and payment systems used by contractors.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
Teams can build, review and hand off interface motion without leaving the shared canvas.
The executive-search firm is adding an AI-focused recruiting team with startup customers.
The biotechnology company is advancing seven programs and plans to form focused affiliates as individual assets reach clinical milestones.
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
The former Waymo engineer behind the startup is applying simulation and observability techniques to customer-facing AI systems.
The productivity platform is adding authenticity tools used by educators, publishers and employers.
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
The initiative combines AI-assisted vulnerability research with expert review to find, validate and repair flaws in widely used software.
The new workflow creates a short-lived Cloudflare environment that can be claimed or allowed to expire.
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
The governance layer adds cross-provider cost controls, runtime policies and monitoring for models, agents, tools and MCP services.
The agentic system is designed to help business teams analyze information and automate recurring work.
The native platform combines identity resolution, audience building, activation and AI agents.
The new architecture aims to reduce the copies and pipelines separating operational applications from analysis.
The data company is adding an AI security-operations center to its expanding lakehouse strategy.
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
The rocket and satellite company entered Nasdaq trading at a valuation above $1.7 trillion.
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
The biotechnology company plans to move nonviral treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease toward clinical testing.
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
The 5,500-acre Arizona proving ground gives Waymo a closed course for expanding robotaxi development.
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
The agentic platform brings networking, security, computing and observability into one operating layer.
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
The Claude developer secured one of the largest private financings ever as demand for enterprise AI and computing capacity continues to climb.
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
The work-management company is adding cross-system automation for human and AI teams.
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
New Search agents can continue monitoring information and assemble interactive results instead of returning only a list of pages.
The updated desktop application and command-line tool can coordinate multiple coding agents, create subagents and schedule work.
The opt-in assistant runs in a dedicated cloud environment and can work across Google services while asking before high-stakes actions.
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
The subscription update separates mainstream, professional and higher-compute access as Google expands Gemini across its products.
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
The AI chipmaker nearly doubled its offering price as investors sought another route into compute infrastructure.
The Palo Alto company founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has now raised more than $1 billion for industrial robots trained in live manufacturing environments.
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
The satellite manufacturer is combining a Series E round with a credit facility as it expands production for commercial and government missions.
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
The startup's team will join Meta's effort to develop AI systems for humanoid robots.
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
The update adds campaign automation, an AI Brief for advertiser guidance and new controls for regulated messaging.
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
The autonomous drone maker reached a $4.4 billion valuation as it increases production for defense, public safety and infrastructure customers.
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
The startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
The new system connects marketing data, content, analytics and automated work across the customer lifecycle.
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
The React Native platform is expanding from developer infrastructure into AI-assisted work that helps enterprise teams move from an idea to a shipped application.
The marine robotics company is pairing underwater vehicles with surface vessels and launch systems for commercial and defense missions.
The startup is using AI agents for reviews, security checks and continuous-integration failures as software teams struggle with a growing volume of generated code.
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
The Santa Clara startup is combining navigation, communications and computing functions in silicon intended for drones and robots.
The company is assembling distributed GPU capacity into a platform that lets developers choose models, hardware and deployment locations.
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
New developer primitives address memory, subagents, execution and recoverable long-running work.
The exit ends the Bay Area startup's effort to build autonomous electric tractors as a standalone manufacturer.
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
The Rivian spinoff reached a valuation above $1 billion while expanding from small electric vehicles into autonomous delivery systems.
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
Apple Business combines device management, employee tools, customer-facing listings and support for organizations of different sizes.
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
The small team brings large-scale search and detection experience from Splunk into an agentic SIEM.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
The deal gives IBM a major real-time data platform for enterprise AI and hybrid cloud systems.
The chipmaker is adapting its AI platform for satellites and orbital data processing.
OpenShell, AI-Q and new Nemotron models aim to give companies more control over autonomous software.
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Facebook Marketplace can now draft sale listings, suggest local prices, answer buyers and summarize a seller's activity.
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
The startup formerly known as mcp-use is turning an open-source toolkit into a managed platform for deploying the connectors used by AI applications.
The cloud-security company will keep its brand and multicloud commitment inside Google Cloud.
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
The Santa Clara company reached a $4.2 billion valuation as large AI systems create demand for faster, more flexible connections between processors.
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
The update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
The open-source testing company will strengthen security evaluation for enterprise agents in OpenAI Frontier.
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
The 14- and 16-inch laptops add faster AI processing, higher storage floors and improved solid-state drive performance.
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
The Palo Alto AI infrastructure company will use the capital to expand its SN50 chip and SambaCloud platform as demand grows for alternatives in inference computing.
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
The durable-computing company reached a $5 billion valuation as enterprises look for infrastructure that can keep long-running AI work on track.
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
The 102.4-terabit chip is designed to move data across increasingly dense computing clusters.
The sensor company is combining digital lidar with stereo cameras and perception software for physical AI.
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
Alphabet's robotaxi company is financing a major expansion as autonomous ride-hailing moves from limited deployments toward a broader transportation network.
The all-stock transaction brings rockets, satellites, social media and artificial intelligence under one company.
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