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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 heart-disease drug developer is seeking up to $318.8 million for clinical trials and research.
Median seed size crossed $5.6 million last quarter, the highest figure the market has recorded.
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
The chipmaker is bringing a hardware-neutral AI software platform into its edge-to-cloud strategy.
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 flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
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 young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
Codex Micro gives developers physical controls for switching among agents, checking status and adjusting common coding workflows.
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.
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
The design platform is bringing agent development and code generation closer to its collaborative canvas.
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
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.
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 EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
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 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 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 new architecture aims to reduce the copies and pipelines separating operational applications from analysis.
The $60 billion stock deal would place one of the fastest-growing coding tools inside SpaceX's AI business.
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
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 services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
Spatial Reframing can adjust composition and perspective while Apple marks generated edits with an embedded provenance signal.
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
The longevity biotechnology company plans to move its first liver program toward human testing while expanding its discovery platform.
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
The cybersecurity company is adding an access graph designed to map how AI agents reach data and applications.
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 commerce update connects shopping across Search and Gemini while giving merchants new visibility and checkout controls.
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
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 updates extend VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and captioning while adding eye-based wheelchair controls for Vision Pro.
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
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 Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
The satellite manufacturer is combining a Series E round with a credit facility as it expands production for commercial and government missions.
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
The startup's team will join Meta's effort to develop AI systems for humanoid robots.
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
The update adds campaign automation, an AI Brief for advertiser guidance and new controls for regulated messaging.
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
The customer-service agent company is adding a French team that connects AI with business processes.
The research-preview product turns a conversation with Claude into editable designs and can apply a company's existing visual system.
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
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 conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
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 small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
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 general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
Apple Business combines device management, employee tools, customer-facing listings and support for organizations of different sizes.
The television interface can now show richer responses, narrated topic explorations and quick updates for sports fans.
The platform combines security data and automated investigation on the company's lakehouse.
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
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 updated headphones add stronger noise control, Adaptive Audio, Conversation Awareness and Live Translation support.
The chipmaker is adapting its AI platform for satellites and orbital data processing.
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
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 cloud-security company will keep its brand and multicloud commitment inside Google Cloud.
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance 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.
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
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 Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
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.
The new laptop doubles entry-level storage while increasing AI and graphics performance.
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
The entry model adds the A19 chip, MagSafe, a 48-megapixel camera and 256 gigabytes of starting storage.
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
The Seattle company's team and desktop-agent technology will support Claude's ability to operate software.
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 reported deal moves future production of the hit series inside Apple Studios.
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
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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