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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Data, Neolab, AI Infrastructure, Defense And AI Coding Lead - Crunchbase News

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Data, Neolab, AI Infrastructure, Defense And AI Coding Lead Crunchbase News

Two-thirds of Austin startup investing flowing to AI companies - The Business Journals

Two-thirds of Austin startup investing flowing to AI companies The Business Journals

Die geniale KI-Idee von Lace AI und zwei Bulgaren: Vom simplen Callcenter zur KI-Optimierung – zur Goldgrube - Xpert.Digital - Konrad Wolfenstein

Die geniale KI-Idee von Lace AI und zwei Bulgaren: Vom simplen Callcenter zur KI-Optimierung – zur Goldgrube X

Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5M via crypto sale - TechCrunch

Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5M via crypto sale TechCrunch

Karnataka to Launch Innovation Museum, AI University, Boost Startups - Rediff MoneyWiz

Moonshot AI Launches Pre-IPO Sprint: Kimi Targets $50 Billion Valuation as State-Backed Investors Emerge - finance.biggo.com

Moonshot AI Launches Pre-IPO Sprint: Kimi Targets $50 Billion Valuation as State-Backed Investors Emerge finance.biggo.com

AI made founding a startup easier than ever – but VC data shows funding is getting harder - Forbes Australia

AI made founding a startup easier than ever – but VC data shows funding is getting harder Forbes Australia

Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A

Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product categories.

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

Etched's Consecutive Funding Rounds Mark New AI Investment Norm - 조선일보

Etched's Consecutive Funding Rounds Mark New AI Investment Norm 조선일보

Quick-Commerce Startup Plazza Raises $15 Million Series A Funding - Whalesbook

Quick-Commerce Startup Plazza Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Whalesbook

Moonshot AI plans Hong Kong IPO within six months as Kimi K3 model rattles tech and crypto markets - Crypto Briefing

Moonshot AI plans Hong Kong IPO within six months as Kimi K3 model rattles tech and crypto markets Crypto Briefing

AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market

India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.

Rippling co-founder Prasanna Sankar launches AI startup Vorflux with $15 million funding - Indian Startup News

China's DeepSeek to raise fresh capital at $74 billion valuation ahead of onshore IPO - The Economic Times

Roblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

LA’s New Defense Startup Comes Out Swinging - dot.LA

LA’s New Defense Startup Comes Out Swinging dot.LA

Startup funding jumps 48% in a week as Udaan, Emergent lead big-ticket deals - CNBC TV18

India AI funding frenzy: Claypond, Binny Bansal, Albinder Dhindsa, Accel, others eye half a dozen startup... - Moneycontrol.com

London-based Applied Computing raises €17.4 million to scale AI that works for the energy industry - EU-Startups

London-based Applied Computing raises €17.4 million to scale AI that works for the energy industry EU-Startups

Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.

Saudi AI Infrastructure Startup Think Raises USD 8M to Expand Across the GCC - waya.media

Saudi AI Infrastructure Startup Think Raises USD 8M to Expand Across the GCC waya.media

How Will Elevation Capital's Fund IX Impact AI Startups? | AIM - analyticsindiamag.com

How Will Elevation Capital's Fund IX Impact AI Startups? | AIM analyticsindiamag.com

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/13/26 - AlleyWatch

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/13/26 AlleyWatch

Elevation Capital Unveils $500 Million Fund For India's AI Startups - Siliconindia

Elevation Capital Unveils $500 Million Fund For India's AI Startups Siliconindia

On Tuesday, three AI chip companies raised $2.55 bi… - StartupHub.ai

On Tuesday, three AI chip companies raised $2.55 bi… StartupHub.ai

ThumpN Bets on AI-Powered Discovery Beyond Ticketing After $3.75 Million Pre-Seed Raise - ciol.com

Bellevue AI Startup Raises $50M in Series B Funding - MyNorthwest.com

Bellevue AI Startup Raises $50M in Series B Funding MyNorthwest.com

Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.

London-based generative AI startup geoSurge bags $12 million in seed funding round led by AlbionVC - Retail Technology Innovation Hub

London-based generative AI startup geoSurge bags $12 million in seed funding round led by AlbionVC Retail T

Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are - Yahoo Finance

Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are Yahoo Finance

From Building Bluelearn to Reinventing Mobile Attribution: How Linkrunner Co-founder Shreyans Sancheti is Transforming App Growth with AI - Indian Startup Times

From Building Bluelearn to Reinventing Mobile Attribution: Ho

Austin startup funding cools after record start to year, strong 2025 - Yahoo Finance

Austin startup funding cools after record start to year, strong 2025 Yahoo Finance

Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now

Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.

Zoom snaps up Seattle startup Common Room to bolster AI-powered sales tools - GeekWire

Zoom snaps up Seattle startup Common Room to bolster AI-powered sales tools GeekWire

AI data center startup Crusoe in talks to raise $3 billion funding: report - The Economic Times

University-founded AI tender startup BidScript exceeds $1M in total pre-seed funding - Tech.eu

University-founded AI tender startup BidScript exceeds $1M in total pre-seed funding Tech.eu

Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freights

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people wh…

OpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS

The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.

Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now put off-limits.

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Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.