“By 2026, over 80% of companies are predicted to deploy generative AI applications.”

“Zhipu's CEO, Zhang Peng, stated the company started 'with technology, team, customers, and market' from day one.”

“Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews...”

“Musk claimed in the filing that he's entitled to a portion of OpenAI's recent valuation at $500 billion, after contributing $38 million in "seed funding" during the AI company's startup years.”

“Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion in compensation from OpenAI and Microsoft.”

“Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.”

“The post Database maker ClickHouse raises $400M, acquires AI observability startup Langfuse appeared on SiliconANGLE.”

“Google released a new personalization tool for Gemini as well as a new protocol for […]”

“The funding is being used to accelerate Harmonic’s momentum in developing Aristotle, which the company claims is the world’s […]”

“Bloomberg described the investment as a $252 million seed round...”

“Higgsfield says it's on a $200 million annual revenue run rate.”

“Merge Labs describes itself as a 'research laboratory' dedicated to 'connecting biological intelligence with artificial intelligence to maximize human capabilities.'”

“OpenAI is participating in a $250 million seed round into Merge Labs, Sam Altman's brain computer interface startup.”

“Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million.”

“AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $80 million in new funding, valuing the company at over $1.3 billion...”

“Boston-based Tulip announced today it has raised $120 million in a Series D funding round led by Mitsubishi Electric, at a valuation of $1.3 billion.”

“The funding comes just seven months […]”

“A group of investors have filed a class action lawsuit against Oracle, contending that it made misleading statements during its initial $18 billion bond drive, resulting in potential losses of $1.3 billion.”

“Berlin-based Parloa, which develops AI customer service agents for Booking.com and others, raised $350M at a $3B valuation, taking its total raised to $560M+”

“Skild AI, a robotics company building an “omni-bodied” brain to operate any robot for any task, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1.4 billion, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion.”

“The company said it took only five months to go from $200 million to $330 million in annual recurring revenue.”

“Deepgram is raising its Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation.”

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“Now his South Korean company, FuriosaAI, has an AI chip entering mass production.”

“超级政治行动委员会——让美国再次伟大公司（Make America Great Again Inc）——报告称，在 7 月 1 日至 12 月 22 日期间筹集了约 1.02 亿美元。”

“Filing: OpenAI President Greg Brockman was the biggest donor to Trump's super PAC in H2 2025, donating $25M; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M”

“A total of 15 companies secured venture funding rounds of $2 billion or more last year, per Crunchbase data.”

“The South Korean government funded the Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project, and the five selected teams released their initial models and presented on December 30, 2025. ... all 5 teams "presented robust open-source policies so that foundation models they develop and release can also be used commercially by other companies, thereby contributing in many ways to expansion of the domestic AI ecosystem, to the acceleration of diverse AI services, and to improved public access to AI."”

“According to sources familiar with the plans, SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all moving forward with their IPO plans, with the total fundraising expected to reach tens of billions of dollars.”

“SoftBank's commitment of $22-22.5 billion to OpenAI last week, as reported by sources. The initial investment agreement was for approximately $40 billion, with a pre-money valuation of $260 billion.”

“Calcalist reported today that a deal could be worth between $2 billion and $3 billion.”

“claims that by doing so it will become “the world’s first publicly listed foundation model company.””

“Meta is buying agentic AI startup Manus to accelerate autonomous AI agents across its apps, marking a major shift beyond chatbots.”

“In 2025, the U.S. AI investment landscape entered uncharted territory...”

“"Is this enough to keep us safe? No it clearly isn't," said Gareth Redmond-King, international lead at the ECIU. "Is it remarkable progress compared to where we were headed? Clearly it is...."”

“The listing is planned for the July-September quarter of 2026.”

“Perennial megaround raiser Databricks was the top funding recipient by far this week, securing a fresh $4 billion in Series L funding (yes, that is a thing) at a $134 billion valuation.”

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“OpenAI is in talks for a funding round valuing it above $100B.”