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Sam Altman says OpenAI “totally screwed up some things” on the GPT-5 rollout, confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-15 Startup

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-15 Startup

Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M led by Founders Fund, bringing its valuation to $9.8B, more than double the level earlier this year (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-15 Startup AI

Sources: chip startup Rivos, which plans to release a GPU for inference as early as 2026, is seeking to raise between $400M and $500M at a $2B+ valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-15 Startup

This Stanford graduate's startup wants to change how websites are built using AI (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-14 Startup AI

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-14 Startup AI

A look at social media “clippers”, who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-14 Startup

US tech startups are reviving US hiring plans as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill lets companies accelerate R&D tax deductions, starting in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-14 Trump Tax Startup

Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims that it built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-13 Startup AI chatbot Malaysia Islam

AI startup Perplexity makes bold $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-13 Google Startup AI Browser Chrome

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”; memo: Microsoft is opting not to directly replace the position (www.axios.com)
2025-8-12 Microsoft Startup GitHub

Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-11 Startup AI chatbot Malaysia Islam

CB Insights: the number of AI unicorns reached 498 with a combined value of $2.7T, 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups valued above $100M (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-11 Startup AI

AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-10 Startup AI Wall Street

India's food supply chain is complex; agritech startups are trying to solve it: Hemendra Mathur, startup mentor (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-9 India Startup

Sources: Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader is leaving, after ~20 team members joined DensityAI, a new data center services startup (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-8 Startup Tesla

Sources: German AI startup n8n is expected to raise hundreds of millions of euros led by Accel at a pre-money valuation of $2.3B, up from ~$350M four months ago (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-8 Germany Startup AI

Sources: Tesla is disbanding the Dojo supercomputer team, and its leader is leaving, after ~20 team members joined DensityAI, a new data center services startup (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-8 Startup Tesla

Lina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate “enormous value” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 IPO Startup

Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Startup AI San Francisco

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Fintech Startup

Israeli quantum computing startup QuamCore raised a $26M Series A led by Sentinel, taking its total funding to $35M, and plans to move into chip fabrication (en.globes.co.il)
2025-8-7 Israel Startup Quantum

NYC-based sales automation startup Clay raised $100M led by CapitalG at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025, and expects $100M in revenue in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Startup

Sources: AI video startup Runway is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $5B+ pre-money valuation; rival Luma AI aims to raise $1.1B+ at a $3.2B+ pre-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-7 Startup AI

AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $70M Series A led by Menlo Ventures via its co-investment vehicle with Anthropic, valuing it at ~$550M (t.co)
2025-8-7 Startup AI

Sources: Mustafa Suleyman has been calling Google DeepMind recruits to work at Microsoft AI, offering higher pay and a more startup-like workplace than DeepMind (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Google Microsoft Startup AI

Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI raised a $125M Series C bridge round from Korea Development Bank, Industrial Bank of Korea, and others at a $735M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-31 Korea Startup

Source: data-labeling startup Surge AI is in talks with a16z, Warburg Pincus, and others to raise $1B in its first funding round at a valuation of at least $25B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-31 Startup AI

AI-startup Anthropic nears funding round at $170 billion valuation (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-30 Startup AI

Dog-Walking Startup 'Wag' Files For Bankruptcy (slashdot.org)
2025-7-29 Startup

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