Meta's $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn't work well |

Meta reached an $18 billion settlement on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states concerning children’s safety. The settlement is historic in scale…

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale |

2:37 PM PDT · August 26, 2026 Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI…

Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal |

Gatik, the autonomous vehicle startup known for its self-driving box trucks, has raised $200 million just two months after striking a multiyear commercial agreement with…

Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong 

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AImodelanyone can download and run on their own hardware— a contrast toMuseSpark, the company’s more powerful model that…

BriteCap Financial and Cloudsquare Partner to Streamline Broker Deal Flow Through Direct API Integration

/PRNewswire/ — BriteCap Financial, a data-driven finance company dedicated to improving the financial health of small businesses, today announced a new integration with Cloudsquare, an…

AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal |

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals, where a rival pays investors a hefty IP “licensing” fee while poaching its…

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says |

3:56 PM PDT · June 3, 2026 Lovable and Google announced an expanded multiyear collaboration on Wednesday. Lovable, the fast-growing Stockholm vibe-coding startup, has long…

Replit's Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he'd rather not sell |

Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went…

Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses what’s next for Apple as Tim Cook steps down from his role as CEO. They also go…

Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal |

Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has signed a new multibillion-dollar agreement to expand its use of Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, including…