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Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn

Emergent’s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it. “Most businesses don’t need any software. They need a way to turn how they actually work into software.” That is how Mukund Jha […]

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Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment

Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fast-rising star. Chai Discovery has raised a $400m Series C that values the San Francisco startup at $3.8bn, the company said. That […]

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Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month

Reflection AI has locked in more computing power. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. The agreement runs through 2029. It gives Reflection access to Nvidia’s newest GB300 chips. Nebius confirmed the deal. Its shares have more than doubled this year […]

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DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise

DeepSeek is getting ready to go public. The Chinese AI lab has started laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. It could file as soon as this year, with a debut targeted for 2027. First, though, it wants to raise more in private. The Hangzhou lab closed its first-ever outside round […]

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Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone

Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that shrinks large AI models to run directly on a phone. The company’s on-device AI pitch could help Apple keep more of Siri’s work off the cloud. PrismML chief executive Babak Hassibi told CNBC that Apple and other companies were evaluating its technology. He called the […]

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Velocity raises $38M to move business money with stablecoins

London fintech Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A to help businesses move money with stablecoins. The Velocity Series A, led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, brings the two-year-old company’s total funding to nearly $50 million. Velocity builds treasury and settlement infrastructure for companies that want to use stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens now spreading across […]

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Zipline is launching healthcare drone delivery with Cleveland Clinic. It hired Tesla and Waymo veterans to scale.

Zipline said the number of businesses offering delivery through its app grew 13 times during the first half of 2026. The autonomous drone delivery company has now completed more than 2.5 million commercial deliveries, including one million in the last year alone, and says it operates more flights per day than major US airlines. Roughly […]

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Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity

Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox. For a century, Delaware has been the place where American […]

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Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal

Paramount Skydance is still aiming to close its roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery by the end of September despite a lawsuit filed by 12 state attorneys general seeking to block the deal on antitrust grounds. Jeffrey Kessler, Paramount’s lead trial counsel, told CNBC on Tuesday that the company is prepared to take […]

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IBM shares plunge after preliminary Q2 revenue falls short of estimates despite surging AI bookings

IBM issued preliminary second-quarter results on Monday showing revenue of roughly $17 billion, up one percent year over year but well below the $18 billion that analysts had expected. Shares fell as much as 17 percent in premarket trading, erasing weeks of gains that had been fuelled by bullish analyst coverage and a stock rally […]

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