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Brief Oct 2 · 3 min read
CScale, a stealth startup building optical interconnects for AI data centers, has raised $145 million in a Series C round led by Nvidia and Intel Capital.
Brief Oct 2 · 2 min read
Houston-based Satlyt has raised an $8 million seed round to develop an artificial intelligence computing cloud for satellites.
Brief Oct 2 · 2 min read
Moldova has opened a €1 million-plus innovation fund for local startups.
Brief Oct 2 · 2 min read
Anthropic has set a November 9 target date for its IPO, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources.
Brief Oct 2 · 2 min read
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has repositioned itself around a central question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era?
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
Deep Principle has closed its Series A, bringing its total funding above $100 million.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
OpenAI has dismissed three safety researchers for allegedly sharing confidential material with an external AI safety organization.
siliconangle.com Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
Volantis has raised $88 million in a Series A round led by angel investor Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, with participation from John Doerr.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI customer research startup Listen Labs, three weeks after reports first indicated the companies were in talks.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
San Francisco semiconductor startup Volantis has raised $88 million to turn a memory approach already used in hundreds of millions of iPhones into a solution for AI hardware.
betakit.com Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
The funds are expected to support new AI integrations and international growth, according to reporting.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
Halluminate, an AI startup with nine employees.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
Cybersecurity startup Armadin has raised $255.5 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
Robinhood Ventures Fund II has deployed $15.75 million across 46 companies in Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch.
Brief Oct 1 · 1 min read
Femtum has opened a new facility in Québec City, reportedly aimed at increasing production capacity for ultrafast lasers.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
Quartermaster AI, an Arlington-based startup applying artificial intelligence to maritime logistics.
Brief Oct 1 · 3 min read
Halluminate has raised $30 million to build AI training environments for private-equity due diligence.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
NetApp has been working for three years to position itself as a key player in enterprise AI data infrastructure.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
IBM has announced a self-hosted deployment option for Bob, its agentic software development platform.
Brief Oct 1 · 2 min read
Halluminate, a nine-person company building finance-specific training environments for frontier AI labs, has raised $30 million.
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