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Coinbase Ventures leads crypto VC activity in H1 2026 with 30 deals
Weeks after its first outside round, DeepSeek is back for more, at a 42% higher price
Chinese AI giants and start-ups ready for the agentic web era
AI law start-up raises $120m at a $1.2bn valuation
Why three young companies bet their products on MongoDB, and what "agent-native" actually means
Shenzhen, not Silicon Valley, is where this Apple veteran is building
SambaNova raises $1bn in financing led by General Atlantic
AI welfare researchers want to test whether today's models are conscious
Microsoft's parts add up to $3.8 trillion, well above its market price
Unitree clearance sets up China's first big test of humanoid robot demand
Nvidia lets startups trade future revenue for GPU compute
SoftBank to rent AI compute in US through new SB Neo venture
Newcleo's $2.4 billion SPAC deal signals nuclear startups are racing to public markets
Salesforce's Fin deal is strategic but exposes a deeper problem the company can't buy away
Higgsfield AI quadruples valuation to $5bn in five months on strength of AI video generation demand
Rivian warns carmakers will fall behind by ignoring EV software
Meta gives WhatsApp to a fintech founder and $900m to his company
Jeff Bezos says AI will create labour shortages. The half of America worried about job losses should not feel reassured
Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
Founders are betting that the backlash against screens will be a business, not a trend
Impulse Space raised $500m and will use the money to... hire people!
The AI data centre of the future might be sitting in your neighbour's garden
Stord raises $250m to be the anti-Amazon. Amazon probably has not noticed
Anthropic's $900bn valuation would surpass OpenAI and cap the fastest value creation in corporate history
AlphaGo creator raises record $1.1bn seed round to build AI that learns without human data
AI startup Pelgo pitches itself as the answer to AI-driven job losses
Anthropic appoints Novartis chief Narasimhan to board in first pharma hire
xStocks tokenizes Fundrise VCX fund as VCXx
Who wants to be an AI millionaire?
UK-based AI 'hyperscaler' Nscale valued at nearly $15bn in new Series C funding
Escargot raises $2.75 million to build physical social platform
Hargreaves Lansdown makes it easier and cheaper to invest in venture capital trusts
JetScale AI lands $5.4m seed round
Hinge AI dating spin-out Overtone is going solo
PolyAI raises $86m to continue developing conversational agentic AI
AI-powered peptide startup's $100m funding round backed by AstraZeneca and Pfizer
Cloudforce secures $10 million as Microsoft backs Series A
Deepgram sets $1.3bn valuation with $130m funding round, and fast-food acquisition
Larry Fitzgerald Jr joins investor roster at 'API anything' startup Deck
osapiens to achieve unicorn status with new US$100m funding round
Alpaca raises $150 million Series D at $1.15 billion valuation
Listen Labs raises $69 million Series B to fund AI-led customer research
Automated flight start-up Grid Aero raises $20m in Series A round
Finance AI start-up Zocks raises $45m in Series B funding round
Qualcomm invests in legal AI start-up SpotDraft
Dealroom eyes US expansion as startup intelligence firm lands new funding round
Arkero teams up with Bolton Wanderers and MLS clubs as AI startup seals pre-seed funding
Insuranse AI firm ManageMy raises $45m in funding round
ChipAgents raises $74 million to scale agentic AI
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