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Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-13 Intel Startup AI

Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-12 Startup AI

Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 Israel Startup Spotify

Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 India Startup

Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup, has petitioned the USPTO to acquire the “abandoned” Twitter trademark and launch its own social network (arstechnica.com)
2025-12-11 Startup Twitter Virginia

How US startups like Oakland-based Brimstone are racing to develop sources of raw materials that the US needs for tech, an industry China has long dominated (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-11 China Startup

DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (www.scmp.com)
2025-12-10 Startup Robot

Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V series of vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (venturebeat.com)
2025-12-10 China Startup AI

Italy-based humanoid robotics startup Generative Bionics raised €70M led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Tether, AMD Ventures, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-9 Italy Startup Robot Venture Capital AMD

Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (www.ft.com)
2025-12-8 Startup Singapore

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-8 Startup AI

Seattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M+ (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-6 Startup AI Seattle

The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-6 Startup AI

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (www.wired.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

Yann LeCun says his unnamed AI startup will not receive financial backing from Meta, will focus on advanced AI world models, and hints it will be Paris-based (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI Paris

University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician” (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-4 Startup AI Mathematics Virginia

A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-3 Startup AI

Software testing startup Antithesis raised $105M led by trading firm Jane Street, as demand grows for software to vet code generated by AI coding tools (www.ft.com)
2025-12-3 Startup AI

ServiceNow announces a deal to acquire identity security startup Veza, sources say for between $1B and $1.5B; Veza had a private valuation of $808M in March (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-3 Startup

Israeli startup Zafran, an AI-native threat exposure management service, raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M (en.globes.co.il)
2025-12-3 Israel Startup AI

US and Israeli cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil at a $4B valuation, up from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-3 Israel Startup

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-3 Startup

Trump Administration To Take Equity Stake In Former Intel CEO's Chip Startup (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 Trump Intel Startup Equity

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark and Eurazeo, after launching in September (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-2 Startup AI Paris

Sources: Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could top $5B; Celestial was valued at $2.5B in March 2025 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-2 Startup AI

An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 80+ tech startups reached $1B valuations, many of them focused on AI with exceptions like Kalshi (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-2 Startup AI

German AI startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-1 Germany Startup AI

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (www.cnet.com)
2025-12-1 Startup AI

US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-12-1 China Startup AI

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