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FundingNasdaq faces $2 trillion wipeout in October as AI spending fears deepen
The Nasdaq 100 is on course to lose more than $2 trillion in market value in October as investors question whether Big Tech’s…
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are…
FundingPrompt: AI demand is booming; the economics are getting complicated
Anthropic’s IPO filing offers a glimpse into soaring enterprise AI demand, but price competition and the cost of delivering AI…
FundingAs Anthropic finally files for IPO, rising risks aren’t slowing the AI buildout – yet
The other artificial intelligence shoe dropped this week, as Anthropic filed for what surely will be the second blockbuster AI…
FundingThe hidden threat in Anthropic’s prospectus: diseconomies of scale
As potentially the largest IPO in history, Anthropic PBC is breaking new ground. Its prospectus lists 88 risk factors covering 93…
FundingAI Adoption Is Up. But Is Business Performance?
Companies are struggling to turn AI investment into meaningful returns. Usage is growing, yet only 13% of organizations report…
FundingApple Acquires Ascend.io
Apple this year acquired Ascend.io, a California-based company that developed technology to help businesses automate the…
FundingStartup Funding News Today, October 30, 2026: Kalshi, Cohere, Bites, Dulo, Opentrons, Firehawk Defense, Wabi & More
More than $1.77 billion in newly announced venture-equity financing flowed into financial technology, artificial intelligence,…
FundingAgility Robotics Expects $465M Gross Capital Raise Ahead of SPAC Closing
Agility Robotics, a humanoid robotics company, and Churchill Capital Corp XI, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition…
FundingCohere Projects Over 1,500 Canadian Jobs and C$4 Billion Investment by 2031
Cohere said on October 30, 2026 that its multi-year Canada investment effort, which began in 2024, is now expected to create more…
FundingAnthropic IPO puts enterprise AI returns in focus
The SEC filing reveals the scale of the vendor’s commercial growth while raising a broader question of how enterprise buyers can…
Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case
Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey…
FundingFrom synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence
Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet…
The big questions remaining after Anthropic’s blockbuster IPO prospectus
Uncertainties remain ahead of one of the most hotly anticipated IPOs in history.
FundingApple acquires Ascend․io, an agentic AI engineering startup
Apple recently struck a deal to acquire Ascend.io, a company focused on agentic data engineering technology. Under the Digital…
FundingAnthropic IPO filing offers clues for enterprise AI, model price wars
With the frontier AI lab about to go public, businesses mull the long-term stability of the Claude creator. OpenAI goes on a…
Funding&Truth Raises $70M Seed to Build Universal Verification Machine for Code
&Truth, a public benefit corporation developing technology to mathematically prove that software is safe, emerged from stealth on…
FundingAI inference chip startup Nano-core Chip raises over RMB 1 billion in Series C2 funding
Hangzhou-based AI inference chip developer Nano-core Chip has raised more than RMB 1 billion in Series C2 funding, the company…
FundingKai-Fu Lee’s 01.AI secures Hangzhou state investment worth hundreds of millions of RMB
01.AI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Kai-Fu Lee, has secured investment totaling hundreds of millions of RMB…
FundingWabi reels in $55M for its consumer-focused AI assistant
Wabi Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant for consumers, today announced that it has raised $55 million in…
FundingBig Tech’s Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall Street
Amazon on Thursday became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.
FundingGoogle went to Finland for its AI expansion. Now a cleared forest and a police probe threaten to overshadow its $15 billion investment
Google’s planned expansion in Finland is facing scrutiny due to alleged environmental violations at a data centre site.…
FundingRivian Licenses AI Voice Assistant Technology Through Volkswagen JV
Rivian disclosed on October 29, 2026, that it expanded its joint venture with Volkswagen Group, licensing elements of its AI…
FundingCoveo Buys Y Combinator-Backed Product Data Startup Anglera
Coveo announced on October 29, 2026 that it has acquired Anglera, a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed company whose AI…
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