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Enterprise Security Spending Shifts to AI-Native Platforms as Automated Attacks Surge
AI-generated attacks are outpacing legacy defenses, and the enterprise security market is repricing rapidly around a ...
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Palantir's Commercial Revenue Crosses Enterprise AI Tipping Point as AIP Bootcamps Scale
Palantir's Q1 2026 results show commercial revenue outpacing government contracts for the first time, driven by AIP d...
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Resolve AI Hits $1.5B Valuation as AI Takes Over Production Engineering
Resolve AI closed a $40M Series A extension at a $1.5B valuation, with DST Global and Salesforce Ventures leading — a...
AI & ML
OpenAI Makes $25 Billion a Year and Loses $14 Billion Doing It
OpenAI has hit $25 billion in annualized revenue faster than any software company in history — while projecting $14 b...
TechPulse
SpaceX Files for What Could Be the Largest IPO in History — With AI at Its Core
SpaceX's confidential S-1 filing targets a $1.75–$2 trillion valuation, weeks after absorbing Elon Musk's xAI in a $2...
AI & ML
Perplexity AI Crosses 100 Million Users, Raises $500M Series D at $8B Valuation
The AI-native search company has closed a $500 million Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 3, as monthly active user...
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Eclipse Raises $1.3 Billion to Build — Not Just Back — Physical AI Startups
Eclipse Ventures has closed $1.3 billion in two new funds with an unusual twist: the firm plans to incubate physical ...
TechPulse
Autonomous Vehicle Funding Triples to Record $21.4B in Early 2026
AV and robotics startups raised $21.4 billion through mid-April 2026 — a 262% surge over all of 2025 — driven by Waym...
AI & ML
Boston Dynamics' Implied Valuation Nears $200 Billion as Atlas Humanoid Ships to Google and Hyundai
Once a YouTube sensation best known for viral backflips, Boston Dynamics is now valued at nearly 200 times its 2021 a...
AI & ML
Shield AI Closes $2 Billion Round at $12.7B Valuation to Scale Autonomous Combat AI
The defense AI startup behind the Hivemind autonomous piloting platform has secured $2 billion in Series G financing,...
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Anthropic Closes $30 Billion Series G at $380 Billion Valuation — The New AI Benchmark
Anthropic's $30 billion Series G — the second-largest venture deal in history — cements its position as the enterpris...
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OpenAI Acquires Hiro Finance, Signaling ChatGPT's Move Into Personal Finance
OpenAI's acqui-hire of personal finance startup Hiro Finance points to a deliberate expansion of ChatGPT into AI-powe...
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The Great AI Price War: How Frontier Intelligence Became a Commodity
Costs for frontier-level AI have dropped by 90–97% in two years, turning what was once a premium compute luxury into ...
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Venture Capital Hits $300 Billion in Q1 2026 as AI Claims 80% of All Global Startup Investment
Global venture funding shattered all records in Q1 2026, with $300 billion deployed into 6,000 startups — and AI foun...
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The Legal AI Arms Race: Harvey Hits $11B, Legora Raises $550M, and Law Firms Are Running Out of Excuses
Legal AI has graduated from experiment to enterprise arms race, with billions in fresh capital flowing to platforms t...
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Upscale AI Targets $2B Valuation in Third Funding Round as AI Networking Race Heats Up
Tiger Global-backed Upscale AI is in talks to raise $180–200M at a $2 billion valuation, betting that unified GPU clu...
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OpenAI Eyes $1 Trillion IPO as Revenue Hits $25 Billion and Retail Investors Get a Seat at the Table
OpenAI is preparing for a potential Q4 2026 public offering at a $1 trillion valuation, with CFO Sarah Friar confirmi...
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Suno Raises $250 Million Series C as AI Music Generation Reaches 2 Million Paid Subscribers
The AI music platform hit $200M in annual revenue and a $2.45B valuation, signaling that generative audio is transiti...
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Cursor in Talks to Raise $2 Billion at $50 Billion Valuation as AI Coding Race Heats Up
The AI coding assistant is seeking fresh capital at a valuation that has nearly doubled in six months, backed by Andr...
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Nuvacore Wants to Rebuild the CPU From Scratch for the AI Era — Sequoia Is Betting It Can
Founded by the architect behind Apple's M1 Firestorm core, Nuvacore is building a ground-up CPU designed for transfor...
AI & ML
OpenAI Bets on Media With TBPN Acquisition — Its First Into Content
OpenAI's purchase of Silicon Valley talk show TBPN for a reported low hundreds of millions marks a sharp strategic pi...
TechPulse
Snap Cuts 1,000 Jobs as CEO Cites AI Efficiency — 65% of New Code Now Machine-Written
Snapchat's parent company eliminated 16% of its workforce, closing 300+ open roles and targeting $500M in annualized ...
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Manycore Tech Surges 187% on Hong Kong Debut as 'Spatial Intelligence' Becomes Robotics' Next Frontier
Hangzhou-based Manycore Tech listed on HKEX today as the world's first publicly traded spatial intelligence company, ...
TechPulse
Amazon Buys Globalstar for $11.6B, Partners with Apple to Challenge Starlink
Amazon's $11.57B acquisition of Globalstar and a deep partnership with Apple reshapes the satellite connectivity mark...
Finance
The AI Money Flood: Global Venture Investment Hits $300 Billion in Q1 2026
Global venture capital investment smashed all prior records in Q1 2026, reaching $300 billion — with AI companies cap...
AI & ML
OpenAI Acquires Hiro Finance, Signaling a Strategic Shift Into Vertical AI
OpenAI's acquisition of personal finance startup Hiro is its clearest signal yet that the company intends to move fro...