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Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency has opened an international AI camp in Tbilisi, bringing together 60 students from six countries to study AI, machine learning and cybersecurity.
Read more →SpaceX has closed its $60 billion all-stock purchase of Cursor, folding the popular AI coding assistant into the computing empire that already includes xAI's Grok.
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Inference-chip startup Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a month after Jane Street tested and bought its hardware.
Read more →Higgsfield closed a $400 million Series B led by DST Global, quadrupling its valuation to $5.4 billion in eight months as its AI video tools hit $700 million in annualized revenue.
Read more →Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model-routing platform used by 8 million developers, in a deal worth more than $7 billion that neither company has confirmed.
Read more →River AI, a startup founded by former xAI leader Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion to let users train and own their own AI models instead of renting access to closed ones.
Read more →Anthropic is negotiating to acquire Decart AI, an Israeli startup behind real-time video and chip-efficiency technology, in what would be its largest deal to date, Bloomberg reports.
Read more →Jeff Dean and three other longtime Google AI researchers have left to launch Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific research with AI.
Read more →Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, emerged from stealth with a platform that lets factory workers train robots by demonstration instead of code.
Read more →June AI emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding to help companies deploy AI agents into legacy systems without hiring costly outside consultants.
Read more →Nvidia is investing in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, giving the secretive AI safety lab early access to its next-generation Vera Rubin chips and a tenfold jump in compute.
Read more →Georgia inaugurated a technology hub in Kutaisi's former parliament building on July 24, combining an AI computing center, a technopark and a TUMO school branch for teenagers.
Read more →Travis Kalanick's robotics venture Atoms raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber — the company that ousted him as CEO in 2017 — joining as an investor.
Read more →London-based Humanoid raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn as Fortune 500 clients scale up deployments.
Read more →AI infrastructure startup Spectro Cloud raised a $100 million Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, pushing its total funding to $260 million.
Read more →Shenzhen humanoid-robot maker LimX Dynamics closed a nearly $200 million pre-IPO round on July 14, valuing it at about $2.1 billion as it pushes toward a stock listing.
Read more →Walden Robotics, a robotics startup spun out of Toyota's research lab, emerged from stealth with $300 million in seed funding and a $1.1 billion valuation, backed by Toyota and Nvidia.
Read more →Fireworks AI closed a $1.5 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation, saying its infrastructure now serves over 40 trillion tokens a day for specialized AI models.
Read more →Emergent, an Indian platform that lets non-coders build software with AI agents, raised a $130 million Series C led by Creaegis, valuing it at $1.5 billion.
Read more →Oak emerged from stealth with $60 million in seed funding to build an AI-native identity system that tracks access for human, machine, and AI agent accounts across the enterprise.
Read more →Neko Health, the AI-assisted preventive health-scanning startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million in Series C funding as it prepares to open its first US clinic in New York.
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