Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private…
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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics |
In Brief Posted: 10:16 AM PDT · August 3, 2026 Valar Atomics confirmed the whisperings that it was raising a giant round led by Sequoia…
Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A |
In Brief Posted: 10:50 AM PDT · July 30, 2026 Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile. Just five months after emerging…
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine |
For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has given frontier models various real-world tasks to determine how well they do as…
Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight |
In Brief Posted: 2:29 PM PDT · July 28, 2026 Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million…
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea |
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models and agents securely pull in outside data…
Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in 8 weeks |
Insurance tech, data room software, and coffee-shop startup Corgi is reportedly raising yet another round that closely follows its last raise and would double its…
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors |
Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion…
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous |
As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch.…
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act |
Databricks on Thursday announced a new round of funding that values the company at $188 billion. The round was led by Coatue. Databricks didn’t disclose…