Vela AI Reaches $2.4B Valuation After Series C
A single strategic investor took nearly half the round, a structure that is becoming common at the top of the market.
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Why Late-Stage Valuations Stopped Falling
Structure, not sentiment, explains most of the apparent recovery.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5
The flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Google Adds Three Gemini Models for Faster Agent Workloads
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and the restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model target different production requirements.
Caplight Raises $16 Million for Private-Market Data and Trading Tools
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
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.
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.
Databricks Agrees to Acquire Security Platform Panther
The data company is adding an AI security-operations center to its expanding lakehouse strategy.
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.
Anthropic Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
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.
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.
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.
Intuit Unveils QuickBooks Workforce for End-to-End HR Management
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default ChatGPT Model
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
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.
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.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 for Professional and Scientific Work
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
Sierra Acquires AI Workflow Startup Fragment
The customer-service agent company is adding a French team that connects AI with business processes.
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.
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.
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.
