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The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at…
FundingSouth Korea plans chip windfall fund to back youth, AI investment
South Korea plans to create a new fund to channel tax windfalls from the country’s semiconductor boom into supporting younger…
FundingIt’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now
OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former cofounder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was…
FundingOpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has…
VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first…
Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than…
FundingTech funding nearly triples, but mega
Korea’s tech funding nearly tripled year-on-year in the first half of 2026, but a handful of mega-rounds in artificial…
Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Jane Street has installed Etched’s first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the…
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its…
OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project
OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs
Google’s AI debt machine lands with four brokers and a video link
Australian capital markets officially have a role in the world’s biggest investment theme: hyperscalers and their plans to spend…
FundingGlobal AI investment $1 trillion in 2026, to reach 1.4% global GDP by 2028: Goldman Sachs
Global investment in artificial intelligence is projected to reach around $1 trillion in 2026, with AI-related capital…
FundingStripe clinches over $7 billion deal to buy AI firm OpenRouter
The deal, just months after OpenRouter raised money at a reported $1.3 billion valuation, underscores the demand from businesses…
FundingSilicon Valley’s young billionaires getting rich from AI
Silicon Valley’s Artificial Intelligence boom is creating young billionaires, fueling lavish spending as startups soar to massive…
FundingNvidia Is Turning Its Massive Cash Flow Into Another AI Growth Engine
Nvidia’s latest investments could give the chipmaker an even bigger stake in the infrastructure boom powering artificial…
FundingNvidia’s $500 billion plan envelops Wall Street in its AI frenzy
Nvidia has unveiled a major financing initiative aimed at supporting artificial intelligence chip acquisitions. By collaborating…
FundingSpaceX closes $60 billion Cursor deal: CEO Elon Musk calls it ‘honour’
Tech News News: SpaceX has officially completed its $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup…
FundingAnthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker’s IPO is the biggest listing in history
FundingScaling AI agents with trustworthy data
Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting…
FundingMeta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUs
Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU. The company’s…
FundingOpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and…
FundingWhy R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption
This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well.What…
FundingConnecting research to policy on Capitol Hill
MIT students and postdocs discussed science funding and research with policymakers in Washington during the MIT Science Policy…
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