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The AI Boom Took Over Climate Week. Not Everyone Was Cheering.
Venture funding for climate companies crossed $14 billion in early 2026, driven by data-centre demand. Some founders think that's a problem.
Lightspeed Is Putting Its Entire New India Fund Into AI
The Silicon Valley venture firm has locked in commitments for 80% of its new $250 million India fund, which is built entirely around artificial intelligence for the first time in its history in the region.
Listen Labs walked away from a $1.5 billion funding round because Salesforce may want to buy it
The three-year-old startup that uses AI to run customer interviews ditched a signed deal with investors, a rare move, while acquisition talks with Salesforce are under way.
AI startups jumped from one story to six in a week. What is that telling us?
Our own tag for AI startups went from a single piece to six in seven days. Here is what that shape looks like from inside the newsroom, and what would confirm the pattern.
Cognition raises $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation as investor appetite for AI coding tools keeps climbing
The startup behind the Devin coding assistant nearly doubled its valuation in four months. Andreessen Horowitz led this round after already profiting from Cursor's sale to SpaceX.
Mira Murati's AI Lab Is in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $40 Billion Valuation
Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, is reportedly seeking fresh funding at a valuation more than three times higher than its last round, even as some co-founders have left.
The VC Who Left $4 Billion Behind to Bet Small on AI Biology
Vijay Pande ran one of venture capital's biggest biotech funds. Now he wants to prove that a smaller, AI-native firm can do what the giants cannot: treat biology like engineering.
Generalist Hits $3 Billion Valuation After Raising Nearly $200 Million More
The robotics AI startup, founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers, now claims its software can teach a robot a new skill from a video clip as short as three seconds.
An AI chip startup just tripled its valuation in six months. Here's who's paying and why.
Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by a Wall Street trading giant that actually tested the hardware first. The numbers are striking. The speed of the rise is even more so.
Databricks wanted to raise $1 billion. Investors offered $15 billion. It took $5 billion.
The AI data company closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation after a leaked news report triggered a flood of investor calls it never asked for.
Accel Raises $550 Million for India in Weeks, Betting AI Will Power the Country's Next Startup Wave
The venture firm closed its new India fund while more than half its previous fund sat unspent, signalling unusually strong investor confidence in Indian AI applications and enterprise software.
Physical AI: The Dollars and Sense of Robotics
Billions in venture capital are flowing into robots that learn on the job. Here is what that money tells us about where automation is headed.
OpenAI Researcher Leaves to Build AI Drug Discovery Startup, Seeking $200M at $2B Valuation
Miles Wang, who studied how AI can speed up science, is reportedly heading out of OpenAI to start a company focused on finding new medicines faster.
AI Startups Swallowed 80% of All Global Venture Capital in Early 2026
Investors put roughly $242 billion into artificial intelligence companies in just three months. That figure, from data tracker Crunchbase, has no historical parallel. Here is what it means if you work for a living.