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Raja Koduri’s Oxmiq raises $35m to rent out AI chip design instead of selling chips

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Oxmiq Labs has closed a $35m Series A to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture the startup says lets chipmakers build custom AI silicon without running a full, multi-year design programme of their own. The round brings the company’s total capital raised to $60m since its founding by veteran chip architect Raja Koduri. The pitch is […]

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SoftBank revives $10bn OpenAI-backed loan with a new sweetener for lenders

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SoftBank has gone back to lenders with a $10bn loan proposal secured against its OpenAI stake, and this time it is offering to personally guarantee the debt, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the discussions. The concession gives banks recourse to SoftBank itself if the pledged OpenAI shares fall short of covering the […]

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Together AI raises 800 million dollars in Series C as open-source cloud demand surges

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Together AI has raised 800 million dollars in a Series C round led by Aramco Ventures, valuing the company at more than eight billion dollars. The round also drew Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Nvidia, March Capital, Pegatron, and SentinelOne’s S Ventures. Together AI says it now generates more than one billion dollars […]

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Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to start a new VC firm with Morgan Beller

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Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago, to start a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, according to TechCrunch. The new firm will target early-stage investments in AI infrastructure, energy, and deep tech, areas where Kutcher believes the next generation of transformative companies will be […]

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Queue raises $12.6M for a pharmacy that runs without a pharmacist

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A Silicon Valley startup says it has built a pharmacy with no pharmacist behind the counter. Sealed bottles go in, filled and checked prescriptions come out, in about a minute. The company, Queue, came out of stealth on Tuesday with a working machine and fresh money. It has raised a $12.6mn seed round led by […]

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Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure

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Every year, more than $200 billion in employer-originated wages crosses international borders. The money moves through a patchwork of local banks, regional payroll vendors, and manual compliance processes. Anyone who managed international payments in 2005 would recognise the setup. The scale has changed. The plumbing has not. This is not a minor inefficiency. It is […]

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Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn

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Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agreed to acquire all of Cognite in an all-cash deal worth $3.1bn. Cognite builds software that […]

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Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund

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AI chip startup Etched has raised $800 million and revealed that its backers include trading firm Jane Street and VentureTech Alliance, a venture firm with a strategic partnership with TSMC. The company, which designs chips specifically for running AI models rather than training them, says it has signed one billion dollars in sales contracts and […]

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Rakuten satellite project to get up to $926m Japanese government grant

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Japan has decided it does not want to depend on Elon Musk to keep its phones connected from space. The government is set to provide up to ¥150 billion, roughly $926 million, in subsidies to a consortium led by Rakuten Group to build a homegrown low-Earth-orbit satellite communications network. A project Tokyo frames explicitly as […]

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Jon and Mindy Gray bet $55M on AI to catch cancer before it starts

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A new institute at Penn’s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease. The idea behind the gift is unusual enough to need its own word. Most cancer philanthropy funds treatment, the long campaign that begins once a tumour has announced itself. Jon […]

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