Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to…
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Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation |
In Brief Posted: 12:36 PM PDT · September 3, 2026 Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded early last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati,…
Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up |
In Brief Posted: 3:43 PM PDT · August 14, 2026 PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale —…
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation |
In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PDT · August 12, 2026 Cognition, makers of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly already talking to investors about…
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M |
Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus,…
Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year's mark |
Defense tech company Anduril is said to be raising a new round of capital that may push its valuation up by a whopping $40 billion…
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation |
When de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences revealed last year that it was attempting to “resurrect” the dire wolf from genetic material found in fossils, we argued…
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation |
Valar Atomics, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially miniaturized, factory-built power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than…
DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO |
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is preparing for a 2027 IPO debut, but it could come as early as the end of this…
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation |
4:31 PM PDT · July 13, 2026 Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by…