ElevenLabs valuation doubles to $22B as employees complete $300M tender offer
The AI voice startup's tender offer, co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, doubled its valuation in under a year amid surging demand for voice agents.
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OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B at $1.4T valuation
A massive new round would extend OpenAI's lead among frontier labs even as it holds off on going public.
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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, billed as its most powerful model yet
Google is positioning the model as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity tasks as frontier competition intensifies.
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a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, nearly doubling valuation to $4B
The housing and healthcare AI startup's round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer, doubling its valuation in a year.
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AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's AI startup for $8.2B
The deal would mark one of the largest acquisitions of a private AI company by a chipmaker.
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AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's AI startup for $8.2B
The acquisition would rank among the largest purchases of a private AI company by a chipmaker.
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Oura delays its US IPO, citing market uncertainty
The Finnish smart ring maker postponed its Nasdaq listing despite strong demand, a setback for the consumer hardware IPO pipeline.
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Anthropic warns of existential AI risks in IPO prospectus
The filing marks one of the first times a frontier lab has put AI risk language directly in front of public-market investors.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records in months-long breach
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former service members that their personal data was taken.
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Chip startup Efficient Computer raises $97M Series B at $650M valuation
The low-power chip startup's round underscores continued investor appetite for AI hardware alternatives.
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Defense Secretary Hegseth taps Musk, Luckey, and Gingrich for 120-day future of warfare study
The Pentagon's review gives tech figures with administration ties direct influence over military modernization priorities.
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Modal Labs nears $750M round at $15.75B valuation on AI inference demand
The AI infrastructure startup's raise reflects soaring enterprise spending on model inference.
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SiMa.ai raises $150M Series C at $1.45B valuation for low-power AI chips
The physical AI chip startup will use the funds to push into automotive and robotics markets.
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Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
The AI hardware design startup also added Sequoia's Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
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Reddit ends RSS feeds and public API access, citing AI bots
The change further tightens access to Reddit's user-generated content as AI scraping concerns mount.
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DoorDash launches drone delivery business and a text-to-order AI agent
The moves pit DoorDash against Uber Eats and Grubhub on both automation and delivery logistics.
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EU's 5bn euro Scaleup Fund can back UK and even US companies
The flexibility widens the fund's reach beyond the bloc as Europe looks to retain and attract scaleups.
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FedEx orders 2,000 electric trucks from Harbinger in $300M deal
The order is Harbinger's largest ever and comes as the startup reportedly weighs an IPO.
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