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Lockheed Martin-Backed Havoc Raises $100M Series A for All-Domain Collaborative Autonomous Defense Systems

prnewswire.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 19

Judgment Labs Closes $32M in Seed and Series A to Build Continuous-Improvement Layer for AI Agents

finance.yahoo.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 18

JPMorgan Initiates Mistral AI Coverage, Calls It 'Europe's OpenAI Rival' and Sees $430B Sovereign AI Opportunity by 2030

benzinga.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 21

ALERT Cerebras Prices 2026's Largest AI IPO at $160/Share, Raises $4.8B at $48.7B Valuation Ahead of Nasdaq Debut Thursday

cryptopolitan.com · 2026-05-13 · Score: 29

Vapi Raises $50M Series B at $500M Valuation After Amazon Ring Chose It Over 40 Rivals to Handle 100% of Inbound Calls

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 20

Exaforce Raises $125M Series B at $725M Valuation to Build AI-Native Real-Time Cyberattack Detection

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 23

Wispr AI in Talks to Raise ~$260M at $2B Valuation, More Than Doubling Its Previous Mark — Bloomberg

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 21

ALERT Anthropic Voids All Unauthorized Secondary Share Transfers, Names Forge Global, Hiive, Sydecar as Prohibited Channels; OpenAI Issues Parallel Notice

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 28

Ciridae Raises $20M Seed Led by Accel to Bring AI Operating Systems to Mid-Market and Industrial Companies

businesswire.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 18

White Circle Raises $11M Seed to Monitor and Control Enterprise AI Models in Real Time, Backed by Executives From OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and Hugging Face

fortune.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 20

DeepMind Spinout Isomorphic Labs Officially Closes $2.1B Series B to Scale AI Drug Design Engine

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 26

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son in Talks With Macron on Up to $100 Billion French AI Data Center Investment

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 23

Kuaishou Plans to Spin Off Kling AI Video Unit at $20 Billion Valuation as ARR Hits $500M

technode.com · 2026-05-12 · Score: 24

Robinhood Files Confidential Registration for RVII — Second Retail Venture Fund IPO Targeting Early-Stage AI Startups After First Fund Doubled on AI Rally

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 20

WSJ: 600+ OpenAI Employees Cashed Out $6.6B in October 2025 Secondary at $400B Valuation — Described as Largest Pre-IPO Employee Liquidity Event in Tech History

Yahoo Finance · 2026-05-11 · Score: 23

Korea's Biggest Manufacturers Back Config's $27M Seed to Build the Data Layer for Robot AI — Positioned as 'TSMC of Robot Data'

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 21

Aidoc Raises $150M Series E Led by Goldman Sachs to Scale Clinical AI Across Nearly 2,000 Hospitals — NVIDIA NVentures Also Participates

healthcareittoday.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 23

Blackstone and Halliburton Invest $1 Billion in AI Data Center Power Startup VoltaGrid, Valuing It Above $10B

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 25

Helsing Closes $1.2B Round at $18B Valuation, Becoming Germany's Most Valuable Startup as Defense AI Investment Surges

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-11 · Score: 27

Chinese Humanoid Robot Startup Vbot Raises $73M Pre-A to Scale Robotic Dog Production and Develop Full-Size Humanoid With AI World Models

theaiinsider.tech · 2026-05-11 · Score: 16

Lithosquare Raises $25M Seed Led by World Fund and Kindred Capital to Deploy AI for Critical Mineral Discovery

techmeme.com · 2026-05-10 · Score: 15

FT: Anthropic Weighs $50B Fundraising Round at Near-$1 Trillion Valuation as ARR Approaches $45B

yahoo.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 27

ALERT Bloomberg: Google DeepMind Spinout Isomorphic Labs in Advanced Talks to Raise Over $2 Billion Led by Thrive Capital

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 28

Robo.ai (AIIO) Acquires Physical AI Data-Infrastructure Startup Neurovia for $100M in All-Stock Deal; Stock Surges 70%

PR Newswire · 2026-05-08 · Score: 16

The Information: Anti-Drone AI Startup Allen Control Systems in Talks to Raise at $2B Valuation

theinformation.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 19

China's ROBOTERA Raises $200M Led by SF Group and IDG Capital for Humanoid Robotics, Claims First Product-Market Fit in Embodied AI With 300%+ Quarterly Growth

prnewswire.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 22

ALERT Bloomberg: Apollo and Blackstone Weigh $35 Billion Private Credit Financing for Broadcom AI Chip Development — Potentially Largest Private Credit Deal on Record

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 29

Principal Financial Seeks $3B for Two Private Equity AI Data Center Funds Targeting 18–20% Net IRR

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 19

Fazeshift Raises $17M Series A Led by F-Prime and Google Gradient to Automate Accounts Receivable With AI Agents

BusinessWire · 2026-05-07 · Score: 17

ALERT SoftBank Cuts OpenAI Margin Loan Target 40% to $6 Billion as Lenders Balk at Private-Company Valuation Risk

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-08 · Score: 31

Anthropic's On-Chain Pre-IPO Market Value Jumps to $1.2 Trillion, Overtakes OpenAI for First Time

crypto.news · 2026-05-07 · Score: 22

Ramp in Talks to Raise $750M at $40B+ Valuation, a 25% Jump in Six Months, as AI Finance Automation Crosses $1B ARR

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 20

Kodiak AI Q1 2026: $100M PIPE at Steep Discount Sends Stock Tumbling 37% as Autonomous Truck Startup Replenishes Runway

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 23

Lambda Raises $1B Credit Facility to Scale Gigawatt-Class AI Factories With Next-Gen NVIDIA Accelerators

techstartups.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 25

Paul Tudor Jones: AI Bull Market Has 'Another Year or Two to Run,' Adds to AI Positions With 40% Upside Forecast Before 'Breathtaking' Correction

cnbc.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 21

Stockholm's Pit Exits Stealth With $16M a16z-Led Round to Offer AI Product Teams as a Service for Enterprises

tech.eu · 2026-05-07 · Score: 16

Bloomberg: Wall Street Readies Wave of Data Center IPOs as AI Infrastructure Debuts Surge — Blackstone Vehicle and DayOne Target ~$7B in Aggregate

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-06 · Score: 24

SpaceX and Anthropic Mega-IPOs Could Mark End of Bull Run, Bank of America Suggests

cnbc.com · 2026-05-06 · Score: 19

ElevenLabs Crosses $500M ARR, Adds BlackRock, Nvidia, and Celebrity Investors to Series D Third Close

digitalmusicnews.com · 2026-05-06 · Score: 23

ALERT Kimi Chatbot Maker Moonshot AI Valued at $20 Billion in Meituan-Led Funding Round

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-07 · Score: 28

Corgi Raises $160M Series B at $1.3B Valuation to Expand AI-Native Insurance Platform Into New Verticals, Just Four Months After Series A

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-06 · Score: 19

Crypto Platforms Triple Volume on Synthetic OpenAI and Anthropic Stock Tokens as AI Shadow Market Goes Mainstream

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 19

Corgi Launches AI Liability Insurance Covering Hallucinations, Algorithmic Bias, and Training Data Disputes

artificiallawyer.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 22

Blitzy Raises $200M at $1.4B Valuation to Deploy Thousands of Coding Agents in Parallel for Enterprise

siliconangle.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 21

World Labs Raises $1B Series C to Scale Fei-Fei Li's Spatial AI World Model Platform

techstartups.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 26

Former OpenAI Counsel Pamir Ehsas Raises $9M From Y Combinator and 20VC in Four Days for AI-Native Law Firm Moritz

law.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 17

ALERT China's State Chip 'Big Fund' in Talks to Lead DeepSeek's First Fundraising Round at $45B Valuation

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-06 · Score: 35

Silo AI Founder Peter Sarlin's Quantum-AI Startup QuTwo Hits $380M Valuation in €25M Angel Round, Deliberately Bypasses VCs

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 18

Nova Intelligence Raises $31.5M Series A Led by Chemistry to Automate SAP S/4HANA Migrations With Agentic AI

Fortune · 2026-05-05 · Score: 18

IronSource Founders' Agentic E-Commerce Startup Zyg Raises $60M Series A at $500M Valuation Led by Accel

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 19

Enter, Brazilian Legal AI Startup, Raises $100M Led by Founders Fund and Sequoia at $1.2B Valuation

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 23

Reserv Raises $125M Series C Led by KKR to Scale AI-Native P&C Insurance Claims Processing to 30M Claims Annually

businesswire.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 19

IREN Acquires Mirantis for $625M in All-Stock Deal to Build Full-Stack AI Cloud Platform

globenewswire.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 22

CopilotKit Raises $27M Series A to Build Infrastructure for In-App AI Agents

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 16

Legora Extends Series D With $50M From Nvidia NVentures and Atlassian, Reaches $5.6B Valuation

theaiinsider.tech · 2026-05-05 · Score: 26

ALERT Anthropic Launches 10 AI Agents for Financial Services With Full Microsoft 365 Integration and Moody's Data Partnership

fortune.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 35

ALERT OpenAI and Anthropic JV Ventures in Talks to Acquire AI Services and Consulting Firms

money.usnews.com · 2026-05-05 · Score: 28

HN: Y Combinator's 0.6% stake in OpenAI is now worth over $5B — Gruber calls out Paul Graham for defending Altman without disclosing it

daringfireball.net · 2026-05-05 · Score: 22

Apple Reportedly Weighing Major AI Acquisition to Define Incoming CEO Ternus's Legacy

247wallst.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 23

Suno AI Music Startup in Talks for Series D at $5B+ Valuation, More Than Doubling Its November Round

axios.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 23

ALERT Sierra Raises $950M Series E at $15.8B Valuation as Enterprise AI Race Intensifies

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 28

Haun Ventures Closes $1B in New Funds and Expands Investment Focus to AI Agents

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 18

SAP Acquires Prior Labs and Dremio in Double AI Play, Commits €1B to Build European Frontier AI Lab

techzine.eu · 2026-05-04 · Score: 26

ALERT OpenAI Finalizes $10 Billion 'Deployment Company' Joint Venture With 19 PE Firms to Embed AI in Enterprise

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 34

Washington Monthly: AI Industry Needs $2 Trillion in Annual Revenue to Justify Its Investment — Crash May Be Worse Than 2008

washingtonmonthly.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 22

China's Linkerbot, controlling 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, targets $6B valuation in next funding round

reuters.com · 2026-05-04 · Score: 19

South Korea's National Growth Fund approves $380.6M (560B won) investment in AI startup Upstage to strengthen sovereign AI competitiveness

sedaily.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 21

ALERT Anthropic nears $1.5B joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman to sell AI to PE-backed companies

wsj.com · 2026-05-03 · Score: 32

WSJ: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar privately pushing to delay IPO until 2027, warns revenue may not cover future compute commitments

gizmodo.com · 2026-05-02 · Score: 27

Chinese AI startups Moonshot AI, StepFun, and DeepRoute reportedly ditching offshore structures to register directly in China

the-decoder.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 26

ALERT Anthropic's $50B funding round set to close within two weeks at valuation nearing $900B

theaiinsider.tech · 2026-05-01 · Score: 32

Replit CEO reveals ~$1B ARR trajectory, vows independence amid Cursor acquisition wave

techcrunch.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 24

ALERT Cerebras targets $4B raise in AI chip IPO at $40B valuation, roadshow starts this week

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 31

Featherless.ai raises $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures for open-source AI inference

technode.global · 2026-05-01 · Score: 17

Thiel's Founders Fund closes $6B largest-ever growth fund after burning through $4.6B on Anthropic, Anduril, and OpenAI in under a year

bloomberg.com · 2026-05-01 · Score: 24

KKR launches Helix Digital Infrastructure with $10B+ and taps ex-AWS CEO Selipsky

Tech Startups · 2026-05-01 · Score: 25

Parag Agrawal's Parallel Web Systems raises $100M Series B at $2B valuation to build agent web infrastructure

TechCrunch · 2026-04-29 · Score: 22

True Anomaly raises $650M Series D at $2.2B valuation to build space interceptors for Trump's Golden Dome

CNBC · 2026-04-28 · Score: 20

Manifest OS raises $60M at $750M valuation to build world's first AI-native law firm model

Bloomberg · 2026-04-28 · Score: 17

CNBC: Top AI researchers leaving Meta, Google, and OpenAI en masse to launch startups — $18.8B invested in new AI labs in 2026

CNBC · 2026-04-28 · Score: 21

Eli Lilly and AI biotech Profluent ink $2.25B deal to develop AI-designed gene editing therapies

BusinessWire · 2026-04-28 · Score: 26

Robot Era raises $200M+ Series C led by SF Express, valued above $1.4B

techstartups.com · 2026-04-27 · Score: 19

ALERT DeepMind's David Silver raises record $1.1B seed for Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1B valuation

TechCrunch · 2026-04-27 · Score: 34

Sereact raises $110M for AI robots that predict consequences

Bloomberg · 2026-04-27 · Score: 19

Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a fully AI-managed hedge fund with $100M

Bloomberg · 2026-04-24 · Score: 25

ComfyUI raises $30M at $500M valuation to scale open-source creative AI platform

TechCrunch · 2026-04-24 · Score: 16

ALERT Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic at $350B valuation with 5GW compute deal

TechCrunch · 2026-04-24 · Score: 35

Amazon-backed X-Energy raises $1.02B in IPO, largest advanced nuclear market debut

Bloomberg · 2026-04-23 · Score: 22

ALERT China orders AI firms including ByteDance and Moonshot AI to reject US capital without state approval

Bloomberg · 2026-04-24 · Score: 31

Applied Digital signs $7.5B 15-year AI data center lease with US hyperscaler

Applied Digital IR · 2026-04-23 · Score: 24

Cognition AI, creator of Devin, in funding talks at $25B valuation — up from $10.2B

Bloomberg · 2026-04-23 · Score: 25

ALERT Tencent and Alibaba in talks to invest in DeepSeek at $20B+ valuation, doubling earlier target

The Information · 2026-04-23 · Score: 30

SoftBank seeks $10B margin loan backed by OpenAI shares to fund AI push

Bloomberg · 2026-04-23 · Score: 26

Orkes raises $60M Series B to power reliable agentic AI workflows in production

AVP · 2026-04-23 · Score: 17

Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure AI-era software supply chains

Tech.eu · 2026-04-23 · Score: 18

Omni raises $120M Series C at $1.5B valuation for AI-powered enterprise analytics

Tech Startups · 2026-04-23 · Score: 19

Tesla quietly discloses $2B AI hardware acquisition buried in SEC filing

Electrek · 2026-04-23 · Score: 26

ALERT Amazon invests additional $5B in Anthropic as part of $100B AWS infrastructure deal

TechCrunch · 2026-04-22 · Score: 31

Sooth Labs raises ~$50M backed by Yann LeCun and Jeff Dean to build geopolitical prediction models

Bloomberg · 2026-04-22 · Score: 18

OpenAI plans $1.5B investment in 'DeployCo' enterprise JV valued at $10B

yahoo.com · 2026-04-22 · Score: 26

Newsletter Issues (36)

AI for Good: the pilot-to-population gap finally started closing

2026-05-05 · 4 mentions

AI in Healthcare: AI diagnostics just took the ER test

2026-05-05 · 5 mentions

AI Geopolitics: America's AI market is now its military

2026-05-05 · 1 mentions

Robotics: Big Tech just bought its way into physical AGI

2026-05-05 · 4 mentions

AI in Education: scraping faculty content blew up in their face

2026-05-05 · 5 mentions

World Models: the post-LLM intelligence race

2026-05-05 · 4 mentions

AI in Business: a handful print money, the rest debate ROI

2026-05-05 · 10 mentions

AI business: capex now writes the org chart

2026-04-25 · 3 mentions

#485 When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret

2026-04-19 · 1 mentions

AI Business: Anthropic said no to $800B

2026-04-18 · 6 mentions

#478 The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else

2026-04-03 · 1 mentions

#477 Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%.

2026-03-31 · 2 mentions

#476 Weekly Intelligence Briefing: Tech, AI & Policy

2026-03-27 · 2 mentions

#371 Issue #371: 10 Best AI Art Generators

2024-02-08 · 2 mentions

#375 Issue #375: AI Is Game Changer for Election Interference, FBI Warns

2024-03-07 · 1 mentions

#377 Issue #377: Next in AI : Pioneers' Predictions!

2024-03-21 · 1 mentions

#379 Issue #379: UK and US sign pact to develop AI safety tests

2024-04-04 · 1 mentions

#380 Issue #380: 63% of IT and security pros believe AI will improve corporate cybersecurity

2024-04-11 · 3 mentions

#385 Issue #385: Game theory improves the reliability of language models

2024-05-16 · 3 mentions

#386 Issue #386: Best AI Voice Generators 2024: What Scarlett Johansson's AI Dispute Taught Us

2024-05-23 · 1 mentions

#389 Issue #389: Apple stock surges to record high after AI announcements

2024-06-13 · 2 mentions

#390 Issue #390: OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company

2024-06-20 · 4 mentions

#391 Issue #391: 3 things CEOs must prepare to unlock the power of generative AI

2024-06-27 · 1 mentions

#392 Issue #392: Top Artificial Intelligence AI Books to Read in 2024

2024-07-04 · 3 mentions

#393 Issue #393: How to use AI to plan your next vacation

2024-07-11 · 3 mentions

#396 Issue #396: OpenAI to launch ‘SearchGPT’ in challenge to Google

2024-08-03 · 1 mentions

#400 Issue #400: Fei-Fei Li’s New AI Venture Soars to $1B Valuation

2024-08-22 · 1 mentions

#403 Issue #403: AI Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies

2024-09-12 · 3 mentions

#430 Issue #430 : Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’

2025-03-20 · 2 mentions

#438 Issue #438: OpenAI’s new for-profit plan leaves many unanswered questions

2025-05-08 · 1 mentions

#446 Issue #446: Meta sacrifices a heap of money at the altar of AI

2025-06-20 · 2 mentions

#458 Issue #458: From

2025-12-16 · 11 mentions

#460 Issue #460:

2026-01-20 · 3 mentions

#462 Issue #462: Is AI spending crashing ? Where is the ROI?

2026-01-29 · 1 mentions

#468 Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time

2026-03-03 · 2 mentions

#474 $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad

2026-03-19 · 2 mentions