Even Realities hits $1B valuation in smart glasses round led by Meituan, Tencent
Ex-Apple team's camera-free smart glasses startup reaches unicorn status with $150 million funding, backed by Chinese tech investors.
TechCrunch · +11 outlets
Nearly 90 startups achieved unicorn status in first half of 2026, driven by AI boom
Roughly 25 percent of newly minted billion-dollar startups in H1 2026 focused on artificial intelligence, marking a surge in venture activity.
Venture Capital News · +14 outlets
SK Hynix prepares multibillion-dollar US IPO after AI boom drives memory chip demand
South Korean semiconductor maker expected to go public in the US this week, capitalizing on surging AI infrastructure demand.
TechCrunch · +6 outlets
AI agent carried out first known ransomware attack but required human planning and setup
Real-world attack showed AI executing technical steps while humans still directed victim selection, infrastructure, and credential theft.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
Cerebras aims for $5.5 billion IPO as AI chip race moves from labs to public markets
AI infrastructure chip company targets major public offering amid competitive race to commercialize specialized processors.
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Anthropic reveals Claude has developed internal workspace mirroring consciousness theory
Research paper shows Claude language models spontaneously developed structure matching Global Workspace Theory of consciousness.
VentureBeat · +2 outlets
Anthropic on track to out-earn every public software company except Microsoft by year-end
AI company exited 2025 with roughly $9 billion run-rate revenue, demonstrating exceptional scaling velocity.
SaaStrAI · +3 outlets
Cursor targets $2 billion raise at $50 billion valuation as AI coding tools race heats up
AI-powered code editor seeks significant funding round as competition intensifies in developer-focused AI tooling.
ascendants.in · +14 outlets
SAP to acquire German AI startup Prior Labs for approximately 1 billion euros
Enterprise software giant bets on AI for analyzing business data through acquisition of Munich-based startup.
ascendants.in · +13 outlets
Microsoft cuts nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox and commercial sales divisions
Latest round of layoffs affects 2.1 percent of global workforce, part of ongoing restructuring cited to AI concerns.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
Cyera in advanced talks to acquire Oasis Security for over $1 billion
Cybersecurity startup negotiates high-value acquisition of data security specialist.
CTech · +1 outlets
Vercel CEO on splitting models from agents as core architecture trend emerges
CEO discusses importance of optimizing for production price-to-performance by decoupling AI models from agents.
TechCrunch
DeepSeek eyes $7 billion funding round as China's AI competition escalates
Chinese AI startup pursues major funding to advance models and infrastructure in intensifying domestic tech race.
ascendants.in · +5 outlets
KreditBee enters unicorn club with $280 million raise, eyes IPO and AI growth
Indian fintech startup achieves billion-dollar valuation and plans public market debut.
ascendants.in · +6 outlets
Twelve Labs raises $100 million as race to make video searchable intensifies
Video understanding startup secures major funding round with AWS named as preferred cloud partner.
ascendants.in · +1 outlets
India startups raised $4.37 billion in Q2 2026, non-VC capital gains ground
Quarterly report shows diversification in startup funding sources beyond traditional venture capital.
India's News.Net · +2 outlets
Tencent's Apache-licensed Hy3 model matches GLM-5.2 at half size, wins outside coding
Chinese tech company releases competitive open-weight model with permissive license addressing enterprise access barriers.
VentureBeat
Zoom acquires Seattle sales and marketing startup to expand go-to-market tools
Video conferencing platform adds sales enablement capabilities through acquisition.
The Business Journals · +6 outlets