Anthropic pushes toward IPO as revenue reaches $16.8B in pre-IPO quarter
The company reports profitability ahead of its listing, though analysts and New York's comptroller have raised concerns about unresolved AI risks.
Startup Fortune · +9 outlets
Ramp hits $60B valuation after $1.85B funding round
The fintech's new valuation marks one of the largest private rounds of the week as it pushes further into AI-driven spend management.
Reuters · +10 outlets
Modal Labs raises $750M Series D, leading a week of slower US startup funding
The AI cloud company's round was the largest of a week in which investors pulled back from giant financings.
Crunchbase · +3 outlets
RapidCanvas raises $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures to expand AI data science agents
The AI execution startup will use the funding to bring agentic data science to mid-market businesses and grow its engineering teams.
Entrackr · +14 outlets
OCR: Asia startup funding near record high in Q3 at $38.5B, driven by AI
AI-focused companies captured a majority of the quarter's seed-through-growth-stage capital across Asia.
Crunchbase · +1 outlets
Replit ends its work with Anthropic, CEO Amjad Masad cites cost among reasons
Replit struck a partnership with OpenAI in August, and the disclosure that it no longer works with Anthropic had not previously been signaled.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
Cohere moves to acquire AI cybersecurity startup Aisle
The deal would add AI-based vulnerability detection to Cohere's enterprise portfolio.
Reuters · +11 outlets
Chip startup Bolt Graphics seeks $100M at about $700M valuation
The GPU startup is raising fresh capital as investor appetite for AI compute hardware remains strong.
n24.com.tr · +4 outlets
Salience Labs raises $125M with AMD and Intel participating to link GPUs with light
The Oxford photonics spinout is developing optical switching to connect thousands of GPUs for AI workloads.
BeBeez International · +11 outlets
Meta launches open-weight Muse Spark Open AI model that runs locally on Macs
The model was built in partnership with Apple to run on Apple silicon.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
Context: Waymo to begin testing robotaxis on Toronto streets, its first Canada market
The expansion marks the Alphabet unit's move beyond US operations into a new regulatory jurisdiction.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
Pasadena quantum startup Oratomic raises $475M at $5.4B valuation
The round is among the largest recent raises for a quantum computing company.
Pasadena Now · +5 outlets
Meta launches open-weight AI model that runs on Macs, built with Apple
Muse Spark Open will run locally on Apple silicon.
TechCrunch · +14 outlets
OMass Therapeutics lands oversubscribed EUR275M Series C for small-molecule therapies
The Oxford spinout will use the round, co-led by Bain Capital, to advance its drug pipeline toward patients.
Eu-startups · +1 outlets
SpaceX cited as global funding for space startups hits an all-time high
Investor interest in spacetech continues to climb, with early-stage rounds also drawing capital.
머니투데이 · +12 outlets
Nvidia unveils investments in five more UK startups as Jensen Huang urges Europe to dream bigger
The UK investments extend Nvidia's push into the European startup ecosystem, alongside Nebius deals with UK AI labs.
Sifted · +7 outlets
Amazon reported in talks to acquire AI infrastructure startup Decart for $7B
The reported deal would be a major consolidation move in AI infrastructure.
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India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
The agents gained access through credentials and connection settings exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
TechCrunch · +1 outlets