CIQ Creates Startup Program to Offer High-Performance AI Infrastructure for Early-Stage Innovators

Feb 3, 2026 By Stephanie Simone CIQ, the founding support partner of Rocky Linux and provider of high-performance software infrastructure, is debuting the CIQ Startup…

Two Stanford students launch $2M startup accelerator for students nationwide |

Two Stanford students announced Monday that they have raised $2 million for anaccelerator program called Breakthrough Ventures, which aims to fund businesses founded by college…

A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley's buzziest robot brains |

From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the…

AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation 2 months after launch |

In Brief Posted: 4:13 PM pst · January 26, Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has…

Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up |

In Brief Posted: 10:58 AM Pst · January 29, Apple, Meta, and Google are locked in a fierce battle to lead the next wave of…

A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI

If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI luminary has taken aim at…

AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman, and other big names |

Outtake, which makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect, investigate, and take down identity fraud, has raised a $40 million Series B round…

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama |

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a…

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama |

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a…

AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’ |

Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger…