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Meta launches an outbound calling feature for Muse, such as to businesses, available for paid US subscribers; Gemini and startup Instinct offer a similar option (techcrunch.com)
9 hours ago Startup

Jensen Huang's Nvidia ploughed its vast profits into bankrolling AI startups, suppliers, and chip customers, a web of dependencies that could now unravel (www.ft.com)
23 hours ago Startup AI Nvidia

Australian quantum software startup Q-Ctrl, which builds sensors that help ships and aircraft navigate when GPS is unavailable, raised $290M at a $1B+ valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Australia Startup Quantum GPS

London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised $720M from Thrive, Founders Fund, and others, sources say at a $7B post-money valuation, up from ~$1.1B in May (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Startup AI London

Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Energy Startup AI

AI training startup Mercor raised a $750M Series D from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Nvidia, and others at a $20B valuation, up from $10B in October 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

Beijing-based Sand.ai, an AI startup specializing in video generation, raised a $200M Series A+, bringing its total funding over the past 10 months to $300M (www.dealstreetasia.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

AI physics startup PSI says a system running a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a quantum computing question open since 2008 (psi.inc)
6 days ago Startup AI Quantum

Potential Sciences, an AI startup building large-scale chemical data sets, secured backing from the UK's Sovereign AI Fund, as part of an eight-figure raise (www.wired.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Sources: cloud security startup Cyera is planning to raise around $800M in a round led by Cyberstarts at a $20B valuation, up from $12B in June (www.theinformation.com)
7 days ago Startup

Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation and $500M in debt, to help acquire radar company Echodyne for $5.3B (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Microsoft's Imagine Cup 'Evolves' From Student Competition To AI Startup Contest (news.slashdot.org)
7 days ago Microsoft Startup AI

Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others (news.crunchbase.com)
7 days ago Startup AI Dropbox

Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Startup Drone Manufacturing

Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Clutch Security, which develops software for tracking passwords used by AI agents, for ~$500M (www.theinformation.com)
8 days ago Israel Startup AI

Sources: Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise ~$5B at a ~$50B valuation; the AI drug discovery startup last raised $2.1B in May (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Google Startup AI

Filing: AMD will pay ~$2.9B in cash and stock for AI chip startup Taalas, with $1.4B dependent on unspecified conditions; the deal was announced in August (www.theglobeandmail.com)
8 days ago Startup AI AMD

AI sales automation startup Nooks secures a $500M commitment from General Catalyst's CVF, which will take a share of the returns generated by the capital (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

OpenAI acquires developer tools startup Pierre Computer for an undisclosed amount and plans to integrate Pierre's Code Storage feature directly into Codex (www.axios.com)
9 days ago Startup

A software engineer details how he went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200+ after joining AI-native creator startup Tano eight months ago (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, up from $8B in April; a source says it hit $800M in annualized revenue this year (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

New England-based autonomous submarine startup Corridian emerges from stealth with a $38M seed led by Point72 Ventures and plans to unveil its first AUV in 2027 (www.axios.com)
10 days ago Startup

Israeli startup 42AI, which is developing a “behavioral world model” that tries to predict human behavior, emerges from stealth with a $62.5M seed (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Israel Startup

Saudi Aramco acquires a 49% stake in AI startup Humain, contributing ~$2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute, and digital assets; Saudi Arabia's PIF retains 51% (gamesbeat.com)
11 days ago Startup AI Arabia Asset Saudi Arabia

ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions (www.calcalistech.com)
11 days ago Israel Startup CRM

How a wave of startups are betting on AI to make formal software verification practical and essential, including &Truth, which launches with a $70M seed (www.wired.com)
14 days ago Startup AI

Source: Dulo, a startup co-founded by Google veteran Sebastian Thrun to build “foundation models for hardware design”, raised a $130M seed (www.theinformation.com)
14 days ago Google Startup

Sources: AI coding startup Cognition weighs a new funding round before year's end after receiving offers valuing it at $70B-$80B, up from $48B in September (www.businessinsider.com)
15 days ago Startup AI

Seoul-based AI chip startup FuriosaAI raised a $620M Series D at a $2.9B valuation, up from $735M in 2025; South Korea's National Growth Fund contributed $280M (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Korea Startup AI

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