Funding & Business articles

ElevenLabs launched two speech models, named v4 and v4 Turbo. The models support over 90 languages, up from 70 in the previous version. ElevenLabs reported that the largest quality improvements occurred in...

Anthropic released its Opus 5.5 model, and OpenAI released GPT-6 model updates 90 minutes later. TechCrunch reported that Meta's personal AI agent, Muse, has early user numbers higher than ChatGPT recorded during...

Anthropic operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area to conduct physical experiments. Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic’s head of life sciences, told Reuters that real lab work is the final test for...

AIUC, a startup founded by early Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, raised $40 million in a Series A funding round. Ribbit Capital led the round, with participation...

Cornelis announced on Monday that it raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners. The company spun off from Intel in 2020 and creates networking technology for artificial...

AI researcher Paul Christiano joined the board of directors for the OpenAI Foundation, according to reporting from TechCrunch. Christiano worked at OpenAI until 2021, where he helped develop reinforcement learning from human...

Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli founded Lausanne-based Fusionality to build control systems and simulation environments for fusion energy startups. Felici worked at EPFL and Google DeepMind, and Buchli worked at Google DeepMind...

Chinese automakers invest in humanoid robots The robotics unit of automaker Xpeng raised over $900 million at a valuation of more than $6.3 billion. IDG Capital led the funding round. The Wall...

Michael Polansky, the co-founder of Outer Biosciences, has built a startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive outside the body to find skincare ingredients. Polansky said the company has raised 23...

Relativity Networks raised $22 million in SAFE note funding from investors including Rhapsody Venture Partners and Bell Ventures Inc. The company also secured a $40 million follow-on order from an unnamed hyperscaler...

Battery materials startup Anthro Energy began construction on a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 18, 2026. The facility has a planned output of 25 gigawatt-hours of electrolytes, which is enough for...

Most of us ignore the water heater until a freezing shower ruins our morning, but this boring appliance is actually draining our wallets. Reservoir just raised $8 million to fix this with...

AWS just teamed up with vibe-coding startup Superblocks, but the real reason they did it has nothing to do with helping you build better apps. Tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft are...

Anyone who has ever tried to sync two simple apps knows it is a complete nightmare. Now imagine doing that with messy corporate databases that have been rotting for a decade. We...

I just read that Substack is using a new tool called Pangram to expose which of your favorite writers are quietly using AI. Pangram just raised nine million dollars to help clean...

I still struggle to assemble target bookshelves, so I cannot imagine the nightmare of building a fusion reactor. Thea Energy just landed twenty million dollars from the government to make their stellarator...

Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus are back at it, raising $100 million for their new AI startup, Prentis, at a casual $1 billion valuation. They want to automate boring office work using...

Everyone thought Google was flushing billions down the AI toilet. Then their cloud revenue surged by 82% because businesses are actually buying what they're selling. Still, spending $190 billion on data centers...

Ever felt overwhelmed managing your money? OpenAI just acquired Hiro Finance, an AI startup set to simplify financial planning. This isn't merely an acquihire; it signals OpenAI's serious dive into consumer finance...

Remember when it felt like Intel and ARM completely dominated the chip conversation? Well, Nvidia just made a move that could rewrite the entire playbook, and if you're not paying attention, you're...

OpenAI alums launching the Zero Shot fund? Smart move. These ex-insiders aren't just throwing money at every AI startup; they're betting on what they *truly* understand. What's even more telling, though, isn't...

Sick of AI that just makes stuff up? Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs just secured over a billion dollars to tackle this, funding "world models" that aim to understand reality, not just language...

Stripe just handed AI startups a secret weapon for profitability. Forget the headache of unpredictable LLM costs eating into your margins. This new feature isn't just about passing on token usage; it...

Ever felt like you’re chasing the next big thing, only to find the goalposts moved? That’s exactly what’s happening in AI SaaS. Investors aren't looking for just *any* AI company anymore. The...