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Denise Dresser's sudden departure could be a major blow to OpenAI as it pursues a blockbuster IPO.
IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.
See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security.
Anthropic is reportedly being valued by its own backers at $2 trillion or more ahead of an expected…
Mindgard Ltd., a leader in artificial intelligence cybersecurity, announced today that it raised $30 million in early funding to scale up its product in response to significant demand across the industry, given an increase in high-impact vulnerabilities.
Databricks is acquiring Electric, a startup that brings WebAssembly-based Postgres databases into application environments, for an undisclosed sum, in an effort to provide developers a way to run data closer to AI agents as they build increasingly autonomous applications.
Dynatrace acquires Arize, accelerates AI observability efforts Larry Dignan Thu, 13 Aug 2026 - 04:12 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on...
Our second in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Sarah Buchner, a "blue-collar worker by background" who set out to find a way to help construction companies manage their projects more efficiently using AI agents.
Quanta Computer told investors at its August 13 earnings call that customer AI product roadmaps and order visibility now extend into 2028, prompting the company to accelerate capacity expansion and raise its full-year 2026 capital expenditure target to NT$40 billion (US$1.28 billion) from NT$30 billion.
Thrive Holdings, a firm that acquires traditional businesses and integrates AI into their operations, has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation, with backing from investors including SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.
Lovable, the European AI-powered vibe-coding startup, has confirmed it raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, valuing the company at $13.3 billion, with more than a dozen additional investors participating.
Cobi, an AI decision stack for customer intelligence, has announced a $1m pre-seed funding round.
Cytix, a Manchester-based software change risk platform, has completed a $7m Series A funding round as it looks to accelerate its response to the risks created by fast-moving, AI-assisted software development.
Intelligence, the company behind AI evaluation tool Design Arena, has raised $7.9 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Conviction, A*, Valkyrie, and others.
AI security scaleup Mindgard has raised $30m (£22.2m) in a Series A funding round to expand its offensive security and threat assessment software for AI systems.
Square Peg led the round at an $80M valuation as Alloy expands in the US and builds agents that trace failures across robot fleets.
Corma has raised $60m in seed funding, with the round led by Sequoia Capital and joined by Khosla Ventures and Coatue.
Joshua Kushner has spent 16 years building Thrive Capital into one of the most closely watched venture firms…
Today we are announcing the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Arize by Dynatrace to accelerate our mission to make the world's AI work. The post Arize and Dynatrace: Making the World’s AI Work appeared first on Arize AI.
Axle, the AI-native clearinghouse for insurance, has raised $17.5m in Series A funding, led by Base10 Partners, as it looks to expand the number of insurance workflows it automates for carriers and businesses across the real economy.
The potential $6 billion acquisition would give the AI company a team of roughly 100 employees and technology aimed at making AI systems faster and more efficient.
Fervour for a lofty valuation comes as a result of Anthropic’s rapidly growing revenue, sources told the FT. Read more: FT: Investors eye $2trn Anthropic valuation in record IPO
The legendary Google engineer has been in discussions for a $1 billion funding round in his new AI startup, Discovery Loop.
Midlands-based MatAlytics, a provider of structural physics AI for critical industrial assets, has been awarded £619k in grant funding from Innovate UK.
AI-powered code testing and developer tools startup Blacksmith has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by Peak XV Partners.
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital.
AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.
Investor appetite for the burgeoning vibe-coding startup ecosystem has shown few signs of satiation over the past year plus, with Swedish AI upstart Lovable’s Series C injection at a $13.3B valuation the latest evidence of a sector viewed by venture capitalists as one of AI’s most promising business disruptors.
Process intelligence company Skan AI said today it raised $63 million in a Series C round to help further develop a platform that records how enterprise work actually gets done and feeds that record to artificial intelligence agents.
Vibe-coding website company Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation.
Over a billion people worldwide have livers with excess fat, which can lead to a host of medical problems. Researchers think AI tools can spot the condition—and help stop it—early enough to save lives.
AI security startup Mindgard has closed a $30 million Series A funding round, pushing the company’s total funding to nearly $42 million.
Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc.
Mindgard, an AI security company headquartered in Boston and London that grew out of more than a decade of research at Lancaster University, has closed a $30m Series A funding round.
Yuno, the AI-native operating system of global payments and financial services, powering the financial infrastructure of enterprise merchants, banks and wallets, has announced a $45m Series B funding round.
June, an AI enterprise platform founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport and co-founders Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat, emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures, with additional backing from Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, and George Kurtz.
Fisent Technologies, a provider of Applied GenAI Process Automation for regulated enterprises, has raised $4.3m in its first priced venture round to expand its enterprise operations and accelerate development of its BizAI platform.
HappyRobot, an AI-native operations platform, has raised $150m in a Series C funding round as it expands its autonomous agent technology across enterprise industries and reaches a post-money valuation of $1.2bn.
Manchester-based cybersecurity startup Cytix has raised a $7m (£5.1m) Series A funding round to scale its change risk management platform and address security vulnerabilities in AI-driven software development.
CodeRabbit Inc., the creator of a popular tool that automatically reviews artificial intelligence-generated code, is becoming more ambitious after closing on its latest $143 million Series C round of funding.
Most venture firms are still deciding whether the AI boom is a software story or a hardware story.…
Austin-based ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, has raised a $25 million Edison Partners-led Series B, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Venture investors seem to be more upbeat than they have been in years about the future of fitness and wellness. Startup investment in those categories totaled more than $3.6 billion in the first half of this year, putting 2026 on pace to come in about a third higher than 2025.
Livestream gaming giant Twitch has raised hackles among its millions of users after declaring it will share their data with its parent company Amazon, to better train the online retailer’s AI models.
The Series C backs software that observes desktop workflows, models undocumented decisions and turns those patterns into AI agents.
Accel has raised $550 million for its ninth India-focused fund, continuing its focus on early-stage investments while placing emphasis on artificial intelligence, deep technology, and manufacturing.
The data and AI company's valuation has jumped from $134bn to $190bn in just six months. Read more: Databricks valuation hits $190bn after second $5bn raise in 2026
Phison Electronics reported record second-quarter results for 2026, with profit and revenue both reaching new highs as AI-driven storage demand accelerated. The Taiwan-based NAND controller supplier said quarterly net profit rose to NT$26.219 billion and earnings per share reached NT$118.57.
Nozomi Networks Inc. and Sophos Ltd. today announced a partnership that pushes operational technology telemetry from Nozomi’s Vantage platform into Sophos Fusion, the artificial intelligence-native defense system launched in July.
Kaori Heat Treatment has approved a major capacity expansion in Taiwan and Thailand as demand rises for AI cooling components and fuel cells.
Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
My chat with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. Also: Google's morale problem, AI computer use is going to be big, and more.
Meta announced a partnership with North America's Building Trades Unions on August 12 to support skilled-trades training and career pathways tied to US AI infrastructure construction.
Autonoma is using AI to help airport teams make more confident operational decisions. Learn more about their partnership with Cisco's Country Digital Acceleration program.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Obsidian Security, the leading platform securing non-human identities and AI agents across third-party applications, has announced $85 million in Series D financing led by Crescent Cove Advisors, with participation from all existing investors including Greylock Partners and Menlo Ventures.
Accel has closed a new $550 million India-focused fund, less than two years after its previous India vehicle, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort that also included U.S.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into a strategic partnership with Vodafone Business, the enterprise arm of VodafoneThree, to help UK businesses modernise their technology infrastructure, accelerate digital adoption and improve business outcomes through AI and digital transformation.
As part of its wider sale on Windows laptops, Woot is offering Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 3x Snapdragon X Copilot+ PC for $499.99 shipped.
Chinese AI agent startup Manus is returning to independent operations, marking a concrete break from Meta months after Chinese regulators forced the US tech group to unwind its acquisition of the company.
Northern Gritstone led the Series A as the Manchester founders moved beyond periodic pentests toward continuous change-level controls.
Kevin Weil, the former chief product officer of OpenAI, is in discussions to raise a round of funding for a new AI science startup.
Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
Cytix raised $7 million in a Series A round after receiving an unexpected offer from Northern Gritstone. Just…
Igor Babuschkin left xAI in August 2025. By April 2026, he had incorporated a new company in Nevada.…
Developers have spent years reviewing each other’s code by hand. Now a growing share of that code is…
Foxconn said its decade-long partnership with Sharp has entered a new growth phase, as the Taiwanese electronics group expands into AI servers, semiconductors, robotics, and next-generation communications.
Silicon Motion announced the pricing of a private placement of US$1 billion in aggregate principal amount of 0% convertible senior notes due 2031, increasing the fundraising size from the previously announced US$800 million.
AI startups now lead the UK venture scene, attracting about 74% of the $18.3 billion invested in UK…
Manus is becoming an independent company again after Chinese regulators ordered Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition of The post Your AI agent remembers everything. Here’s what happens when its owner changes. appeared first on The New Stack.
Lumilens emerged from stealth on August 6 with more than $700 million in new financing, taking total funding above $900 million at a $5.51 billion valuation.
Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate routine work.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms is set to fully unwind its acquisition of Chinese-founded artificial intelligence platform Manus, more than three months after Beijing blocked the deal on national security grounds, capping off another high-profile decoupling between the US and China in the critical area of AI.
CoreWeave's revenue is surging as the AI boom continues, but the company is also sitting on $35 billion in debt.
Meta and North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) are partnering to invest in skilled trades workers building America's AI infrastructure. The post NABTU and Meta Announce New Partnership to Invest In Skilled Trades for the AI Era appeared first on Meta Newsroom.
Alibaba released its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8 model as open weights, giving operators a text-only checkpoint with about 95 billion parameters active per token.
TrustKernel, a global pioneer in secure operating systems and privacy-preserving computing with over a decade of experience protecting more than 1 billion devices worldwide, today announced PlugClaw, a thumb-sized Private AI Computer designed to help people delegate real work to AI.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, has announced a strategic investment in and partnership with MOZN a global leader in enterprise AI for high-assurance domains, based in Saudi Arabia.
Cognition AI is in talks with investors less than three months after its last raise, this time over…
AI image tools are transforming creativity while creating a costly new wave of sophisticated retail fraud.
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has kicked off its pre-initial public offering (IPO) tutoring process for a listing in mainland China, capitalising on growing demand for compact artificial intelligence models that run locally on devices like smartphones and laptops, and in cars.