Timeline
Anduril raises $5bn, but execution questions linger
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund backs solar-powered cattle collar startup at $2 billion valuation
Google.org reaches 1m students with safety kits
OpenAI closes $122bn funding round at $852bn valuation as IPO pressure builds
Nvidia invests $2bn in Marvell as chip giants deepen AI infrastructure alliance
British defence drone start-up reportedly in talks for $200m funding round
European women founders raised €7.5bn in 2025, the highest total in three years, as AI reshapes who gets funded
PolyAI raises $86m to continue developing conversational agentic AI
Elly raises $8 million to launch AI hiring platform designed to capture recruitment decisions as they form
Waabi raises $750 million in Canada’s largest private funding round to date
RobCo raises $100m to scale AI robotics platform for manufacturing
Talos raises $45 million in Series B extension at $1.5 billion valuation
Polestar secures $400m from institutional investors
Oracle shares rise as group targets up to $50bn for AI infrastructure
MITO AI raises $4.5m to build browser-based creative platform
Artificial Labs raises $45m Series B
RapidFort raises $42 million to expand automated vulnerability remediation platform
Big tech's $650bn roll of the dice on artificial intelligence
Deep Fission raises $80 million to build nuclear reactors one mile underground
Levl raises $7 million to expand stablecoin and fiat payments platform
Ericsson invests $1m in University of Toronto AI and wireless research partnership
Sports betting exchange Novig raises $75m in Pantera-led funding round
Efficient Computer raises $60m to bring low-power processor to edge AI devices
Xflow raises $16.6m Series A to scale India's cross-border payments infrastructure
More in AI
Google's September 2026 spam update: what it is, who it hits and what Google is trying to fix
The latest Google spam update is the September 2026 spam update, which Google released at 09:15 US Pacific time on 24 September 2026 and which is still rolling out as of 28 September; it adds no new policy and does not target AI content as such, but it strengthens the automated systems that punish content made at scale to manipulate rankings.