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The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed “first customer” payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (t.co)
15 days ago Startup AI

Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (sources.news)
15 days ago Startup AI

Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (www.cnbc.com)
15 days ago Startup AI Robot

Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago China Startup AI Intelligence

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (restofworld.org)
15 days ago India Startup

A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju's founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B+ to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju's US unit (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago India Startup

Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Lux, Thrive, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Startup AI Robot Intelligence Jeff Bezos

AI workplace agents startup Genspark raised a $275M Series B at a $1.25B valuation and says it hit $50M in annualized revenue after pivoting from AI search (www.forbes.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

As OpenAI commits to spending $1.4T, creating a mesh of complicated deals, the startup does not disclose its auditor, and there is little information online (t.co)
19 days ago Startup

How scientists are exploring the use of quantum sensors, developed by startups like Q-CTRL, as a secure GPS alternative with military and civilian applications (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago Startup Quantum GPS

Yann LeCun says he is leaving Meta at the end of 2025 to build a new startup and continue his “Advanced Machine Intelligence research”, with Meta as a partner (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Startup Intelligence

Sources: ID verification startup Incode is in preliminary talks to raise between $150M and $300M at a valuation of up to $3B, up from a $1.25B valuation in 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Startup

Yann LeCun is departing Meta; sources: Meta plans to partner with LeCun on his new startup, which will be focused on world models (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Startup

AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
20 days ago Startup AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (www.ft.com)
20 days ago Startup AI

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Startup AI Arabia Elon Musk Nvidia Saudi Arabia

Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan (www.nytimes.com)
20 days ago Google Microsoft Startup

UK bank Lloyds agrees to acquire UK startup Curve, which offers digital wallets, in a deal set to close in H1 2026; Sky News reported Lloyds is set to pay £120M (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Startup

A look at Tsinghua University, which leads China's AI innovation, with 4,986 AI patents between 2005 and 2024, alumni behind startups like DeepSeek, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago China Startup AI

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 (sifted.eu)
20 days ago Europe Startup GDP

Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who is its co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in July 2021 (www.nytimes.com)
20 days ago Amazon Startup AI Jeff Bezos

Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago India IPO Startup

Valar Atomics Says It's the First Nuclear Startup To Achieve Criticality (hardware.slashdot.org)
21 days ago Startup

Coding assistant startup Sourcegraph says ads in its free tier are generating $5M to $10M in annualized revenue; the ad-supported tier was launched in October (www.theinformation.com)
22 days ago Startup

Bezos Returns To CEO Role With AI Startup Project Prometheus (slashdot.org)
22 days ago Startup AI

In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (www.businessinsider.com)
22 days ago Startup AI

Danish startup Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it “crossed €100M of ARR in October” (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Startup

Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago Amazon Startup AI Jeff Bezos

Sources: Tether is in talks to lead a €1B funding round in Neura Robotics, valuing the startup at €8B-€10B, as Tether seeks to expand its investment portfolio (www.ft.com)
25 days ago Startup Robot

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