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Naïve Secures $28.5M to Streamline Business Operations through AI Automation
Naïve has successfully closed a Series A funding round, raising $28.5 million to advance its platform for automating business setup and management via AI agents.
OpenAI Counters Apple's Trade Secret Lawsuit, Citing Competitive Shortcomings
OpenAI has rejected Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, asserting the lawsuit is a retaliatory measure stemming from Apple's struggles in artificial intelligence development and talent retention.
Ditto Dating App Leverages AI for Matchmaking, Aims to Redefine Gen Z Connections
A new dating application, Ditto, developed by UC Berkeley dropouts, is moving away from traditional swiping mechanisms, instead utilizing artificial intelligence to facilitate more meaningful connections among its Gen Z user base.
Defense Manufacturer Hadrian Achieves Nearly $8 Billion Valuation After Latest Funding
Hadrian, a company specializing in advanced manufacturing for defense and aerospace, has secured significant new investment, boosting its valuation to $7.9 billion.
Google's AI Leadership Undergoes Significant Restructuring Amidst Internal Pressures
Google's artificial intelligence division has experienced substantial leadership changes, reportedly influenced by a push for faster product development and ethical considerations within the company.
Inevitable AI Group Secures $6M to Cultivate AI-Native Software Startups
A new venture studio, Inevitable AI Group, has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to develop and launch numerous AI-native software companies.
DXC Technology Collaborates with Primary on Zero-Trust Security for Enterprise AI
DXC Technology has partnered with security startup Primary to offer exclusive managed services for Primary's zero-trust platform, designed to secure artificial intelligence operations within enterprises.
AI Moderation Faces Scrutiny Amidst Errors and Evolving Online Threats
Social media platforms are increasingly leveraging AI for content moderation, but recent incidents highlight its limitations and the critical need for human oversight.
Microsoft Quantum Head Dismisses Scientific Skepticism Regarding Majorana Particle Findings
Microsoft's quantum computing chief indicated disinterest in satisfying scientific doubts concerning the company's research into Majorana quasiparticles.
Robinhood Plans $200M Public Fund for Y Combinator Startups
Robinhood Ventures Fund II is expected to list on the NYSE at $25 a share, giving retail investors exposure to early-stage private companies tied to Y Combinator.
Malaysia Orders Balaji Srinivasan's Network School to Close
The startup-focused residential community faces a licensing shutdown as its founder pursues a new campus in Kazakhstan.
London Founder House Rejects the Startup Burnout Playbook
Lift House is testing whether ambitious founders can build together without importing Silicon Valley's most punishing work culture.
Rivian Spinoff Also Begins Shipping Its Delayed TM-B E-Bike
The $4,500 Launch Edition is moving to customers after component shortages pushed deliveries beyond the original spring schedule.
AI Tools Are Creating Younger Founders and Faster Expectations
Teenage entrepreneurs can now build and raise money earlier, but investors are giving them less time to learn in private.
Research Links Venture Pressure and Weak Governance to Startup Fraud
Two studies suggest misconduct remains uncommon, but becomes more likely when overheated markets reward growth without adequate oversight.
Braveheart Bio Targets $1.2 Billion Valuation in IPO
The heart-disease drug developer is seeking up to $318.8 million for clinical trials and research.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1 Billion for Demonstration and Commercial Reactors
The financing brings total capital to $4 billion as the company works toward scientific breakeven in 2027.
Dili Raises $21.7 Million for AI Compliance in Infrastructure Projects
The startup is applying automated document review to the permitting and regulatory work behind data centers and other large developments.
ChipAgents Adds $60 Million as AI Moves Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
Eliyan Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With $145 Million Series C
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
Freehand Raises $75 Million for AI Agents Managing Supply Chain Spend
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
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Centralize Raises $15 Million to Map Relationships in Enterprise Sales
The startup is using AI to show sellers how buyers, colleagues and past interactions connect across a complex deal.
Qualcomm Completes Its Acquisition of Modular
The chipmaker is bringing a hardware-neutral AI software platform into its edge-to-cloud strategy.
Polar Raises $5.7 Million for an AI Browser Focused on Knowledge Work
The startup lets users schedule workflows and assign agents to tasks based on open tabs rather than targeting occasional consumer bookings.
Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Train Agents From Real Customer Conversations
The platform analyzes calls, messages and CRM outcomes to turn effective human techniques into reusable sales and support playbooks.
Fast Metals Raises $4.3 Million to Recover Critical Minerals From Red Mud
The startup uses one industrial waste stream to process another, aiming to make iron cover costs while titanium and rare earths provide profit.
Pangram Raises $9 Million and Launches New AI Text and Image Detectors
The startup says Pangram 4 can identify mixed human-AI writing while its first image model enters research preview.
Weave Raises $13.5 Million to Measure the Return on AI Coding Tools
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
Fish Audio Raises $52 Million for Expressive AI Voice Models
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
X Money Begins U.S. Rollout With Debit Card and Peer Payments
The financial app is opening to paid X subscribers with instant transfers, a Visa card and incentives tied to Premium membership.
Cyera Plans $1 Billion Acquisition of AI Identity Security Company Oasis
The mostly cash transaction would add controls for non-human accounts and agents to Cyera's broader data-security platform.
Runlayer Sues Rippling Over Alleged Copying of Its MCP Gateway
The dispute centers on source code and product plans shared during a year-long enterprise trial that ended without a commercial agreement.
Nvidia Reportedly Invests $5 Billion in Safe Superintelligence
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
Cast Insights Raises $4.5 Million to Index Live Spoken Media
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
World Foundation Raises $52.5 Million Through a Locked Token Sale
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
Etched Raises $300 Million at a $10.3 Billion Valuation
The AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
Cognition Acquires the Company Behind Poke
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
Glow Emerges From Stealth With $180 Million for Endpoint Security
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.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Elastic Agrees to Acquire Deductive AI
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
Natural Raises $30 Million to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
Fireworks AI Raises $1.505 Billion at a $17.5 Billion Valuation
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
Aina Raises $5.5 Million for AI-Native Interface Hardware
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
Rime Raises $24 Million to Improve Voice AI for Complex Calls
The M13-led Series A backs a speech company betting that how a machine sounds decides whether a caller stays on the line.
Oak Launches With $60 Million for an AI-Native Identity Operating System
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
Spectro Cloud Raises More Than $100 Million for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
Whatnot Acquires Shaped for Real-Time Shopping Recommendations
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million for AI-Designed Medicines
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
Flex Raises $70 Million to Expand AI-Native Financial Services
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Visa Introduces AI Financial Assistant for Banking Apps
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
Ollama Raises $65 Million to Expand Its Open-Model Developer Platform
The company behind a widely used local AI tool is adding resources for enterprise adoption while keeping its open-source distribution engine.
OpenAI Introduces GPT-Live for More Natural Voice Conversations
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Figma Acquires Team Behind AI App Builder Bud
The design platform is bringing agent development and code generation closer to its collaborative canvas.
Queue Raises $12.6 Million to Expand Autonomous Pharmacy Kiosks
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
Omen AI Raises $31 Million to Monitor Coolant Inside AI Data Centers
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
8090 Raises $135 Million as Chamath Palihapitiya Takes the CEO Role
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
Proception Raises $11 Million for Dexterous Robot Hands
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
Pocket Raises $11 Million for Its Dedicated AI Note-Taking Device
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
Aseon Labs Raises $10 Million for Automated Robotaxi Service Stops
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
Quantifind Raises $200 Million for AI-Powered Risk Intelligence
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
Salesforce Launches a Prepackaged Help Agent
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
Adobe Agrees to Acquire Topaz Labs
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
Assort Health Raises $120 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
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Kotoba Technologies Adds $10 Million to Expand East Asian Voice AI
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
Seltz Raises $12.5 Million to Rebuild Web Search for AI Agents
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
xCures Raises $46 Million to Turn Medical Records Into Decision-Ready Data
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
Mirendil Raises $200 Million to Build Self-Improving AI for Scientists
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Riviera Partners Acquires Lateral Labs
The executive-search firm is adding an AI-focused recruiting team with startup customers.
Osanni Bio Raises $190 Million for a Multi-Program Therapeutics Platform
The biotechnology company is advancing seven programs and plans to form focused affiliates as individual assets reach clinical milestones.
JustAI Raises $17 Million for Enterprise Marketing Agents
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
Coval Raises $28 Million to Stress-Test Voice and Chat Agents
The former Waymo engineer behind the startup is applying simulation and observability techniques to customer-facing AI systems.
Superhuman Agrees to Acquire AI Detection Company GPTZero
The productivity platform is adding authenticity tools used by educators, publishers and employers.
Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
Groq Raises $650 Million to Expand Its AI Inference Cloud
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
Upscale AI Adds $190 Million to Its Open Networking Push
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
Architect Labs Raises $24 Million to Speed Custom Chip Design
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
Clair Health Raises $11.6 Million for a Hormone-Tracking Wearable
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
Convey Raises $38 Million to Give Enterprises AI Teammates
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
Genspark Extends Series B to $485 Million at a $2.6 Billion Valuation
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
DeepL Acquires Mixhalo and Opens Silicon Valley Office
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
Bland Raises $50 Million to Expand Its Enterprise Voice AI
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
Ent Emerges With $100 Million to Prevent Risky Actions Before They Happen
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.
Probably Raises $9 Million to Make AI Outputs More Verifiable
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
Magnitude Raises $10 Million for Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Maker Anysphere
Elon Musk's rocket company will pay $60 billion in stock for the AI coding startup, days after its record-setting IPO.
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Fin for $3.6 Billion
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
Meta Begins Unwinding Its $2 Billion Manus Acquisition
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Pursue AI for Physical Engineering
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
Pi Raises $25 Million for Agentic Product Security
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
Campground Raises More Than $2.2 Million for Social Impact Operations
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
Apple Introduces Siri AI Across Its Device Ecosystem
The rebuilt assistant adds conversational interaction, visual understanding and deeper control across apps and personal context.
OpenAI Files Confidentially for a U.S. Initial Public Offering
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
Supabase Raises $500 Million at a $10.5 Billion Valuation
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
Generalist AI Raises $400 Million for Robot Foundation Models
The physical AI company reached a $2 billion valuation as it trains software intended to work across different robots and real-world tasks.
Sekai Raises $26 Million as Users Generate Millions of Mini Apps
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
NewLimit Raises $435 Million to Advance Cellular Reprogramming Medicines
The longevity biotechnology company plans to move its first liver program toward human testing while expanding its discovery platform.
Anthropic Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
Drafted Raises $16 Million to Use AI in Home and Floor Plan Design
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8 for Long-Running Professional Work
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
Asana Acquires No-Code Agent Builder StackAI
The work-management company is adding cross-system automation for human and AI teams.
Cognition Raises More Than $1 Billion at a $26 Billion Valuation
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Human Archive Raises $8.2 Million to Collect Training Data for Physical AI
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
Hark Raises More Than $700 Million for Personalized AI Models and Hardware
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
Anthropic-Backed Services Venture Acquires Fractional AI
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
Exa Raises $250 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
Mercury Raises $200 Million at a $5.2 Billion Valuation
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
Socket Raises $60 Million to Secure Open-Source Software in the AI Era
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
Figma Design Agent Brings Prompted Creation Onto the Canvas
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
Commure Raises $70 Million at a $7 Billion Valuation
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
Status AI Raises $17 Million for an Interactive Social Network
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Google Brings Agentic Tasks Into Search
New Search agents can continue monitoring information and assemble interactive results instead of returning only a list of pages.
Google Launches Antigravity 2.0 for Parallel Agent Development
The updated desktop application and command-line tool can coordinate multiple coding agents, create subagents and schedule work.
Google DeepMind Licenses Contextual AI Technology and Hires Researchers
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
Anthropic Acquires Developer-Tools Startup Stainless
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Recursive Superintelligence Emerges With $650 Million
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
Mind Robotics Adds $400 Million to Scale AI-Powered Factory Robots
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.
Exaforce Raises $125 Million for Real-Time AI Security Operations
The Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
Judgment Labs Raises $32 Million to Improve AI Agents With Production Data
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
Monaco Raises $50 Million for an AI-Native Sales Platform
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
Roadrunner Raises $27 Million to Rebuild Quote-to-Cash Software
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
Fazeshift Raises $17 Million for Autonomous Accounts Receivable
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
Astranis Adds $300 Million in Equity and New Credit to Scale High-Orbit Spacecraft
The satellite manufacturer is combining a Series E round with a credit facility as it expands production for commercial and government missions.
Corgi Raises $160 Million at a $1.3 Billion Valuation for Business Insurance
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
RadixArk Launches With $100 Million Seed Round to Expand SGLang
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
Altara Raises $7 Million to Bring AI Into Physical Science Workflows
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
Sierra Raises $950 Million as Enterprise AI Competition Intensifies
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence
The startup's team will join Meta's effort to develop AI systems for humanoid robots.
Netomi Raises $110 Million as Accenture and Adobe Back Agentic Customer Service
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
Standard Intelligence Raises $75 Million for Computer-Use Models
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
OpenAI Adds Advanced Account Security for High-Risk Users
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
Hightouch Raises $150 Million for an Agentic Marketing Platform
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.
Parallel Raises $100 Million to Build Web Infrastructure for AI Agents
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
Scout AI Raises $100 Million to Develop Autonomous Systems for Defense
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
Stripe Gives AI Agents a Link Wallet for Controlled Purchases
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
Augment Acquires Merlin to Expand Supply Chain AI
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
Omni Raises $120 Million as AI Reshapes Business Analytics
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
Era Computer Raises $11 Million to Build a Software Layer for AI Gadgets
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
Skydio Raises $110 Million to Expand U.S. Drone Manufacturing
The autonomous drone maker reached a $4.4 billion valuation as it increases production for defense, public safety and infrastructure customers.
Sierra Acquires AI Workflow Startup Fragment
The customer-service agent company is adding a French team that connects AI with business processes.
Crewline AI Raises $7.1 Million to Automate Construction Equipment
The startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
NeoCognition Launches With $40 Million for Agents That Learn on the Job
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
Anthropic Launches Claude Design for Prototypes, Slides and Visual Work
The research-preview product turns a conversation with Claude into editable designs and can apply a company's existing visual system.
Loop Raises $95 Million to Expand Predictive AI Across Supply Chains
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
TextQL Raises $17 Million as Blackstone Backs Enterprise Data Agents
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
Ulysses Raises $38 Million to Scale Autonomous Ocean Fleets
The marine robotics company is pairing underwater vehicles with surface vessels and launch systems for commercial and defense missions.
Gitar Emerges From Stealth With $9 Million to Check AI-Generated Code
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.
Glydways Raises $170 Million for Dedicated-Lane Transit Pods
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
Hilbert Raises $28 Million to Turn Growth Data Into Automated Decisions
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
HYFIX Raises $15 Million for a U.S.-Made Control Chip for Autonomous Machines
The Santa Clara startup is combining navigation, communications and computing functions in silicon intended for drones and robots.
Parasail Raises $32 Million to Build a Flexible AI Compute Supercloud
The company is assembling distributed GPU capacity into a platform that lets developers choose models, hardware and deployment locations.
Phonely Raises $16 Million as Customers Back Its Business Voice AI
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
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Slash Raises $100 Million and Reaches a $1.4 Billion Valuation
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Coordinates Work Across Creative Apps
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
Cloudflare Project Think Adds Durable Building Blocks for AI Agents
New developer primitives address memory, subagents, execution and recoverable long-running work.
Caterpillar Acquires Monarch Tractor's Remaining Assets
The exit ends the Bay Area startup's effort to build autonomous electric tractors as a standalone manufacturer.
Modern Relay Raises $3 Million for a Shared Context Layer for AI Agents
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
Sanas Acquires Real-Time Voice Startup Tomato.ai
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
Primepoint Labs Discloses $10 Million Seed Round for Construction AI
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
OpenAI Acquires Personal Finance Startup Hiro
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
Osteoboost Health Raises $8 Million to Expand Its Bone Health Wearable
The Redwood City company will scale access to an FDA-cleared prescription belt designed for people with low bone density.
Aria Networks Launches With $125 Million for AI-Native Networking
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
Noon Launches With $44 Million to Close the Gap Between Design and Code
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
Miravoice Raises $6.3 Million for AI-Led Voice Research
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Round at an $852 Billion Valuation
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
Nexus Raises $4.3 Million to Put Governed AI Agents in Business Teams
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
ALSO Raises $200 Million and Adds DoorDash as an Autonomous Vehicle Partner
The Rivian spinoff reached a valuation above $1 billion while expanding from small electric vehicles into autonomous delivery systems.
Sycamore Launches With a $65 Million Seed Round for Enterprise AI Agents
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
Deccan AI Raises $25 Million to Build More Reliable Post-Training Data
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
Google Expands Search Live to More Than 200 Markets
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
EPIC Microsystems Raises $21 Million to Tackle AI Data Center Power Loss
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
Google Launches Lyria 3 Pro for Longer AI-Generated Music
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
Doss Raises $55 Million to Build an AI-Native Operations Cloud
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
Apple Unifies Its Business Services in One Platform
Apple Business combines device management, employee tools, customer-facing listings and support for organizations of different sizes.
Cloudflare Dynamic Workers Run AI-Generated Code Without Containers
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
Databricks Acquires SiftD.ai for Its Lakewatch Security Platform
The small team brings large-scale search and detection experience from Splunk into an agentic SIEM.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Multiply Raises $9.5 Million for Self-Learning B2B Advertising
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
Eragon Raises $12 Million for a Prompt-First Enterprise Operating System
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
Nvidia Introduces Space-Ready Vera Rubin Computing Module
The chipmaker is adapting its AI platform for satellites and orbital data processing.
Sunday Raises $165 Million to Put Its Memo Robot Into Homes
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Replit Raises $400 Million as Valuation Triples to $9 Billion
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
Manufact Raises $6.3 Million to Build Infrastructure for MCP Developers
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.
Google Completes $32 Billion Acquisition of Wiz
The cloud-security company will keep its brand and multicloud commitment inside Google Cloud.
AgentMail Raises $6 Million to Give AI Agents Their Own Inboxes
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
Kai Emerges With $125 Million for Security Across IT and Industrial Systems
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
Meta Acquires AI-Agent Network Moltbook
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
OpenAI Agrees to Acquire AI Security Platform Promptfoo
The open-source testing company will strengthen security evaluation for enterprise agents in OpenAI Frontier.
Denki Raises $4.1 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Audits
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
Science Corporation Raises $230 Million to Advance Neural Devices
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
Ayar Labs Raises $500 Million to Scale Optical Links for AI Chips
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
14.ai Raises $3 Million for an AI-Native Customer Service Agency
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
S2.dev Raises $3.85 Million for Serverless Streaming Data Infrastructure
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
Anthropic Acquires Computer-Use Startup Vercept
The Seattle company's team and desktop-agent technology will support Claude's ability to operate software.
Harbinger Acquires Autonomous Driving Company Phantom AI
The commercial vehicle maker gains driver-assistance software and a new licensing relationship with ZF.
SambaNova Raises $350 Million and Signs Multi-Year Intel Partnership
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.
Kana Launches With $15 Million for Configurable Marketing Agents
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Build Spatial Intelligence Models
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
Render Adds $100 Million for a Cloud Platform Built Around AI Applications
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
Braintrust Raises $80 Million to Measure AI Systems in Production
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
The Biological Computing Co. Raises $25 Million to Develop Neuron-Based Computers
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
Simile Raises $100 Million to Build AI Simulations of Human Behavior
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
Newo Raises $25 Million to Put AI Receptionists Into Small Businesses
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
Ouster Acquires StereoLabs for Cash and Stock
The sensor company is combining digital lidar with stereo cameras and perception software for physical AI.
OpenAI Launches Frontier to Manage Enterprise AI Agents
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
Fundamental Emerges With $255 Million for Enterprise Data Models
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
Sapiom Raises $15.75 Million for Machine-Native Financial Infrastructure
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
Lunar Energy Adds $232 Million to Scale Home Batteries and Virtual Power Plants
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
Bedrock Robotics Raises $270 Million for Autonomous Construction
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
SpaceX Acquires xAI in Record-Setting Combination
The all-stock transaction brings rockets, satellites, social media and artificial intelligence under one company.
