Struggling fusion power company General Fusion to go public via $1B reverse merger |

Last year, fusion power startup General Fusion was struggling to raise funds, laying off at least 25% of its staff before receiving a $22 million…

OpenAI is coming for those sweet enterprise dollars in 2026 |

4:52 PM pst · January 22, OpenAI has reorganized some of its leadership and picked a familiar face to lead its push into selling AI…

Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM |

In Brief Posted: 2:42 PM ps · January 22, 2026 The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular…

Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation |

In Brief Posted: 2:44 pm ps · January 22, LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced the…

Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off |

Companies and governments are looking for tools to run AI locally in a bid to slash cloud infrastructure costs and build sovereign capability. Quadric, a…

Tiger Global and Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO |

3:19 AM pst · January 22, Tiger Global and Microsoft are primed to fully exit PhonePe, the Walmart-backed Indian payments startup that has updated its…

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing |

Twenty years ago, a Duke University professor, David R. Smith, used artificial composite materials called “metamaterials” to make a real-life invisibility cloak. While this cloak…

Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference |

12:34 pm ps · January 21, 2026 AI detection startup GPTZero scanned all 4,841 papers accepted by the prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems…

OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST   |

In Brief Posted: 10:01 am ps · January 21, VCs who have backed OpenEvidence are apparently not worried about new health information products from OpenAI…

Everstone combines Wingify and ABTasty for $100M+ digital experience optimization platform |

Private equity firm Everstone Capital is bringing together India’s Wingify — a company that helps businesses test different versions of their websites to improve sales…