Exclusive: Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory |

Plastics recycling startup MacroCycle announced a new deal with Meta on Tuesday that will help speed the development of its first commercial plant. Three-year-old MacroCycle,…

Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal |

In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing — “a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder…

Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs |

Google has agreed to buy 1 million carbon credits from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs through 2030, in what the companies say is the largest…

NVIDIA Acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion in Landmark Open Source AI Deal

Sep 3, 2026 By Stephanie Simone NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion—enabling the company to scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure, and…

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…